Patent ID: 8017065

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a parison; enclosing the parison within a mold, said mold including a wall with a recess; inflating the parison in said mold to form a blow molded container, said blow molded container having a sidewall, a movable region formed in a bottom portion of said blow molded container at said recess and extending into said recess, and a first hinge circumscribing an interface between said sidewall and said movable region, a wall thickness at said first hinge being thinner than immediately surrounding portions of said inflated, blow molded container on both sides of said first hinge; and moving said movable region toward an interior of the blow molded container about said first hinge, said moving occurring before filling said blow molded container with a product, wherein said mold is not a deep-set mold, and after said moving the movable region toward the interior of the container, the moveable region is deep-set.