Patent ID: 8469223

Claim:
A sealable container, comprising: a stiffened, flexible bottom wall joined to front, rear, and opposite side walls enclosing an interior space and defining interior and exterior surfaces, the front, rear, and opposite side walls extending to an upper finish formed with a sealing flange having an internal edge defining an opening to the interior space; a collar having an interior surface received about the container proximate the upper finish; an openable lid having an interior surface and carried from the collar such that when closed the lid covers and seals the opening, the lid including a sealing wall depending from its interior surface and projecting toward and engaging the sealing flange when the lid is closed; at least one transverse stiffener channel formed about the bottom wall and depending therefrom into the interior space; and the stiffened and flexible bottom including at least one sagittal stiffening channel defined by at least two opposing stiffener walls; wherein at a length along the channel, the at least two walls with respect to each other depend from the exterior surface of the bottom wall towards the interior space at different angles with respect to a horizontal direction.