Plastic bottle with a self supporting base structure
AssigneeACI Operations Pty. Ltd.
InventorRoger W. Clark
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Abstract
A plastics container includes a neck and an outlet opening, a container body and a base; the base comprising a plurality of circumferentially spaced legs, each leg terminating in a foot portion on which the container is adapted to stand wherein each leg is provided with at least one longitudinally inwardly extending crease. Preferably each leg is provided with a single crease which extends downwardly and inwardly at least to the extent necessary so to substantially divide the foot portion of each leg into two separate support portions on which the container is adapted to stand.
Claims18
A plastics container comprising a neck and an outlet opening, a container body and a base;
- the base comprising a plurality of circumferentially spaced legs with each leg terminating in a foot portion on which the container is adapted to stand;
- each foot portion having an inner edge being that edge of the foot portion closest to the center of the base;
- each of the legs of the container further including a base portion which extends from the inner edge of the foot portion towards the center of the base;
- each base portion being configured such that it makes no contact with a level surface when the container is standing upright on such a surface;
- wherein each leg of the container includes at least one longitudinal crease which extends radially inwardly towards the center of the base but which does not extend more than halfway along the base portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.