Abstract: A synthetic resin thin-walled bottle, a tubular intermediate therefor and a method of producing a thin-walled bottle. The thin-walled bottle has ribs at least at its bottom portion, and the bottle bottom is raised up frusto-conically or has an undulatory shape. The tubular intermediate is first formed with ribs which become thin-walled protuberant ribs after blow molding. The thin-walled bottle is produced by blow-molding the ribbed tubular intermediate.

Abstract: An improved base configuration for a plastic container used in hot-fill applications. The base is concentric with the side walls of the container and an outer ring of the base is connected to a central dome portion which extends upwardly into the body cavity of the container and terminates in a central disk region, which is also generally concentric with the side walls of the container. Radiating in a substantially spiral fashion, from the central disk downward along the dome to the outer ring, are a number of reinforcement ribs and slides which increases the amount of material in the base which is sufficiently oriented and able to resist the deformation induced by unrelaxed retractive stresses during filling of the container with a liquid of elevated temperature.

Abstract: An improved base configuration for a blow molded plastic container used in hot-fill applications. The base consists of a peripheral support ring that is generally concentric with the container side walls and connected to a central dome portion. The dome extends upwardly into the body cavity of the container and terminates in a central disk region that is also concentric with the container side walls. A number of raised involute embossments radiate about the central disk in a substantially spiral fashion downward along the dome. The embossments are limited to that area of the dome where unrelaxed retractive stresses may be formed during blow molding of the container. The embossments increase the amount of material in the base which becomes sufficiently oriented so as to resist the deformation induced by the unrelaxed retractive stresses during hot filling of the container.

Abstract: A blow molded plastic bottle has a reinforced plastic bottom with a concave central portion and a bottom rim portion. A solid depending rib, formed at the pinch off seam, extends across the concave portion, and depending hollow ribs, formed in the concave portion at ninety degress to the solid rib, extend radially to the bottom rim portion. The hollow rims effectively reduce the depth of the bottom rim intermediate the seam junctions to reduce bulging of the concave base thereby preventing instability.

Abstract: A blow-molded plastic container having a body comprising a neck portion, a generally cylindrical sidewall portion and a bottom structure. The bottom structure comprises a central portion, a plurality of ribs extending downwardly from the bottle sidewall to the central portion, and a plurality of feet extending below the central portion from the sidewall portion. The ribs are defined by an upper curvilinear surface and, in cross-section are of an substantially U-shape having a relatively tight radius, the upper rib surfaces lying on a generally hemispherical curvature in the interior of said container.