US 11,987,416 B2
Plastic container
Jochen Forsthövel, Regensburg (DE); Alexander Schau, Regensburg (DE); Gerald Hüttner, Vilseck (DE); Andrew Dimitri Peykoff, Newport Coast, CA (US); and Jay Clarke Hanan, Glendora, CA (US)
Assigned to Niagara Bottling, LLC, Diamond Bar, CA (US)
Filed by Niagara Bottling, LLC, Ontario (CA)
Filed on Jul. 3, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/502,582.
Application 16/502,582 is a continuation of application No. 14/271,947, filed on May 7, 2014, granted, now 10,392,150.
Application 14/271,947 is a continuation of application No. 13/771,241, filed on Feb. 20, 2013, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2019/0322404 A1, Oct. 24, 2019
Int. Cl. B65D 1/02 (2006.01); B29C 49/48 (2006.01); B65D 1/42 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 1/0223 (2013.01) [B29C 49/48 (2013.01); B65D 1/0261 (2013.01); B65D 1/0284 (2013.01); B65D 1/42 (2013.01); B65D 2501/0036 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plastic container comprising:
a neck section, a shoulder section, a body section, and a base section, wherein the base section includes at least two tie members extending from a central area to a side wall of the base section, the at least two tie members formed as partial grooves that extend in a longitudinal direction and arranged between feet of the base section; and
a plurality of circumferential grooves oriented in a peripheral direction and having a varying depth between the at least two tie members,
wherein the at least two tie members end before a labeling area of the body section intended for receiving a label, and
wherein the labeling area includes a plurality of peripherally constant depth grooves.