Container

Claim 1

A one-piece nestable thin wall container made from plastic sheet material comprising a container body portion and pedestal therefor, said container body portion in upright position having a radially inwardly extending and substantially horizontal bottom portion to which the pedestal is integrally attached and an outwardly tapering sidewall extending in a direction opposite to the pedestal and terminating in a substantially open mouth at the end of said tapering sidewall, said pedestal including a depending skirt portion of resilient character which flares outwardly from its connection with said container bottom portion at an acute angle to a diameter at its outer free extremity slightly less than the smallest internal diameter of said container body portion in the vicinity of the juncture of the bottom portion and sidewall thereof, said container adapted to nestably receive and to be nestably received by like containers of similar configuration with the pedestal skirt portion of each container above the bottom container in the nested stack resting upon the bottom portion of a subjacent container at an inwardly open acute angle for permissive outward sliding surface contact therewith when a weight is impressed thereon and determining the stack height Of said nested containers, the depending skirt portion of each pedestal in said nested stack of containers capable of yielding an axial direction when a weight is impressed thereon to cause outward sliding radial enlargement of the outer free extremity thereof, the dimensional difference between the outer free extremity of each depending skirt portion and the container body portion of a subjacent container in the vicinity of the juncture of the bottom portion and sidewall thereof defining a space therebetween to accommodate the radial enlargement of the depending skirt portion at its outer free extremity and thereby provide axial breathing between the containers in said nested stack.