Container of plastic foil

Claim 1

A container having a thin lining, the container including: a. a one-piece sheet of which the lining is comprised; b. a seamless fold in said sheet, said fold being disposed at the upper end of the container and defining first and second halves of said sheet; c. a discharge opening in the region of said seamless fold; d. each half of said sheet including a recess therein, each recess extending over a major portion of each half, said recesses of both halves co-operating to define a confined area within the lining; e. each sheet half including a flange half extending between the associated recess and the outer periphery of that sheet half; f. said flange halves defining a filling opening; g. said flange halves being joined together to form a flange about the container and to close said filing opening, said flange lying in a plane in which the center line of the container also lies; h. the lining including a cylindrical center portion terminating at one end into a convex, dome-shaped bottom portion and at the other end into a top portion; i. a mechanically stiff sleeve disposed about said center portion and bottom portion of the lining and tightly fitting said center portion; j. portions of said flange extending along said center portion of said lining being folded over and being compressed between said center portion and said sleeve.