Patent ID: 8178140

Claim:
A plastic bottle for dispensing a jelly beverage comprising: a mouth, a flexible cylindrical main unit in fluid communication with said mouth; a base forming a bottom of said main unit and configured to support the bottle to stand upright and having a rigidity greater than the rigidity of said main unit, said main unit comprising: a lower body section extending upward from said base, a central body section extending upward from said lower body section and configured to bend outward to a deformation state comprising a substantially flat shape when an external force is applied, and a crease disposed between said lower body section and said central body section, the central body section Including a pair of second creases that mutually face and enclose a central axis, an upper body section that extends upward from said central body section, a tapered shoulder connecting said upper body section with said mouth, and a third crease disposed between said upper body section and said central body section, the third crease having at least one traverse groove and at least one concave groove continuous with an edge of the at least one traverse groove, the at least one concave groove being deeper than the at least one traverse groove, wherein said crease and said third crease are configured to be positioned on two edges above and below and an inner wall of said upper body section is configured to contact an inner wall of said shoulder when said central body section is in the deformation state; and said lower body section comprising a pair of first sections configured to position said central body section, in the deformation state, in the same plane as said base, and a pair of second sections disposed between said pair of first sections and configured to position said central body section, in the deformation state, in a location overlapping said base and the pair of first sections.