Plastic Container With Strapped Base

摘要

A container may have a base, a sidewall connected to the base, a bell connected to the sidewall, and a finish connected to the bell. The base may have strap ribs to resist deformation of the base. The sidewall may have recessed columns to resist bending, leaning, crumbling, and/or stretching. The strap ribs and recessed columns may vertically line up along a central axis of the container to communicate forces on the container vertically along the container to continuously resist deformation in the base and the sidewall.

主权项

1. A container comprising a flat foot base having strap ribs and a sidewall having recessed columns, the strap ribs and recessed columns vertically lined up to resist deformation in the base and the sidewall, the container comprising:
a flat foot base comprising a gate, a wall, and flat feet, the gate centered on a central axis of the container, the wall extending from the gate toward a resting surface of the container, the flat feet extending from the wall to the resting surface; a sidewall connected to the base, the sidewall extending substantially along the central axis to define at least part of an interior of the container; a bell connected to the sidewall and leading upward and radially inward to a finish connected to the bell; a plurality of strap ribs positioned in the base between the flat feet, the strap ribs extending radially outward from at least one of the gate or the wall toward the sidewall, the strap ribs sloping upward relative to the resting surface toward the sidewall from the at least one of the gate or the wall to resist deformation of the base; and a plurality of recessed columns positioned in the sidewall, the recessed columns comprising sidewall ribs extending along a periphery of the sidewall and centered about the central axis, wherein portions of the sidewall between the sidewall ribs are substantially continuous along the periphery of the sidewall, the recessed columns configured to resist at least one of bending, leaning, crumbling, or stretching along the sidewall; wherein the strap ribs and the recessed columns vertically line up along the central axis to form pressure resistance bands such that each pressure resistance band comprises a strap rib vertically lined up along the central axis with a recessed column, the pressure resistance bands configured to communicate forces on the container vertically along the container between the base and the sidewall to continuously resist deformation in the base and the sidewall.