A container system includes a container for holding a fluid. The container may be positioned within a box that provides structural support to the container while allowing the container system to be stacked. The container may include chamfered corners and a glug mitigation mechanism. The box may include corresponding chamfered corners and one or more access apertures for providing access to the container handle and container opening that are positioned within and below the top surface of the box.

The principles of the present invention further provide both a shaped metal container and its preforms that exhibit a rounded grain structure characteristic created by an annealing process and a method for making a shaped metal container. The process of making said metal container results in a quicker process time and uses less metals (at least 10% metal weight savings), thus allowing for a decrease in the costs of making such shaped metal containers. A shaped metal container may include work hardened rolled sheet-metal defining a sidewall, an opening, and a base, where at least one section along the sidewall has grains with an average aspect ratio less than about 4 to 1.

A method of manufacturing a liquid container in which a liquid is stored in a storage space of the container including a mouth, a body and a bottom, the body having a lateral folding line portion being foldable when the body is flattened in a thickness direction and extending in a circumferential direction of the body, the method including a liquid blow molding step of molding a container filled full with a liquid in a storage space by placing a preform in a mold and performing liquid blow molding; and a headspace forming step of forming a headspace in which, by separating the container filled with a liquid from the container, the body is deformed in a direction in which a thickness is increased in an area of the lateral folding line portion and a volume of the storage space is increased.

A container may comprise a tubular body having a rounded sidewall extending between a closed end defining a base portion and an opposite open end surrounded by a rim portion, and one or more sets of grooves defined within the vertical portion of the rounded sidewall. The base portion is configured to support the container in an upright orientation relative to a support surface and wherein the base portion defines a support ring having an at least substantially rounded perimeter. The rounded sidewall comprises a curved base transition region and a vertical portion extending between the perimeter of the base portion and the rim portion along a central axis. Each of the grooves comprises a length and a width, wherein the length is longer than the width. The grooves extend between the base portion and the rim portion along the length.

A synthetic resin container including a mouth, a shoulder, a body and a bottom and forming a space for accommodating contents, in which the shoulder is provided with a pair of protruding ribs configured to be disposed opposite to each other on a front side and a rear side across a central axis line of the container and to be foldable when the shoulder is flattened; the pair of protruding ribs are each formed into a curved shape with central portions protruded toward the mouth side in a front view or a rear view; and both ends of one of the pair of protruding ribs are connected to both ends of another one of the pair of protruding rib, respectively, at intermediate positions of the shoulder.

A 1-gallon bottle with a carry-handle. The bottle includes a plurality of selectively reinforced panels that distribute a top load through a top portion and a body portion of the bottle and into a base portion. The top portion can include a top panel having a plurality of radially oriented grooves. The body portion can include a back panel, a lower back panel, first and second label panels, first and second side panels, first and second front panels, and a center panel. Each of the panels can be connected with adjacent panels along interconnecting edges or corners. Certain of the panels (e.g., larger panels) can be selectively reinforced, while certain other panels can remain unreinforced. The back panel can include a concave portion to allow a user to easily grip the carry-handle.

A synthetic resin container that is formed in a bottle shape having a mouth and a trunk and that is provided in the trunk with at least one reduced pressure absorbing panel. The trunk has a density of 1.3695 g/cm.sup.3 or more, and a ratio of a crystal orientation in a transverse direction with respect to a total value of a crystal orientation in a machine direction and the crystal orientation in the transverse direction in the trunk is less than 44%.

A synthetic resin-made laminated peelable container, formed by blow molding a preform assembly in which an inner preform is assembled into an outer preform, includes: an outer layer body including a tubular-shaped outer mouth and a closed-bottom tubular-shaped trunk contiguous from the outer mouth; an inner layer body including a tubular-shaped inner mouth arranged on inner side of the outer mouth and a containing chamber laminated on inner surface of the trunk in peelable manner for volume reduction and deformation; and an ambient air inlet configured to introduce ambient air between the outer and inner layer bodies. The containing chamber is integrally provided with at least two thick ribs extending along axis line of the trunk to increase thickness of the containing chamber compared with remaining portions.

A synthetic resin bottle, which has a pressure reduction absorbing performance and which exhibits a cylindrical shape in which the appearance of the body section to which the label is attached is similar to a perfect circle, is provided. A synthetic resin bottle 1 having cylindrical body section 3 has four pressure reduction absorbing panels 8 arranged at equal intervals in body section 3, and column portions 9 each having an arc-shaped wall surface 9a arranged between pressure reduction absorbing panels 8. Arc-shaped wall surface 9a of column portion 9 in a cross section of body section 3 constitutes a part of a virtual single true circle 10. Total circumferential length of arc-shaped wall surfaces 9a of column portions 9 is 55% to 75% of entire circumferential length of true circle 10.

Refillable plastic container includes a top portion, a sidewall portion defining an interior and a longitudinal axis and a base portion extending downwardly of the sidewall portion and defining a closed bottom. The base portion has a heel extending downwardly and inwardly of the sidewall portion at an angle relative the longitudinal axis and having a substantially frustoconical shape. A standing ring extends from heel and defines a support surface of the container. A central dome projects upwardly of the standing ring toward the interior. The central dome portion has a convex surface relative the interior.