1. A plastic container comprising:
a cylindrical body defining a longitudinal axis and having an upper portion, a sidewall portion and a base portion having a base, the base portion defining a radial sidewall and a central inset portion defined inboard of a thinned wall portion formed around at least a portion of the base.
2. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the base portion further defines an outer heel portion wherein the outer heel portion has an average wall thickness greater than an average wall thickness of the thinned wall portion.
3. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the thinned wall portion is a continuous annular structure around the container base.
4. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the thinned wall portion is a discontinuous annular structure around the container base.
5. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the thinned wall portion is a segmented annular structure around the container base.
6. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the plastic container is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
7. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the upper portion includes a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blown finish.
8. A molding system for making a blow-molded plastic container having a base portion that supports the container, the molding system comprising:
a mold defining a mold cavity, the mold having a base forming assembly that is configured to form the base portion of the container, the base forming assembly including a base insert and a movable ring insert that is movable relative to the base insert; and
an actuator that is configured to move the movable ring relative to the base insert while the base portion remains in the mold cavity to advance the movable ring insert into the base portion to define a thinned flex point in the base portion.
9. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the actuator is configured to move the movable ring relative to the base insert to also define a central inset portion on the base portion that is moveable relative to another portion of the base portion due to a vacuum in the container.
10. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the mold defines a void that is configured to form an annular projection on the base portion, the movable ring configured to advance into and retract the annular projection to define the thinned flex point.
11. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the movable ring insert is at least partially cylindrical.
12. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the actuator is configured to move the movable ring insert substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the container.
13. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the base forming assembly is configured to form an outer heel portion of the base portion, and wherein the actuator is configured to move the movable ring to define the thinned flex point having a wall thickness that is less than an average wall thickness of the outer heel portion.
14. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the movable ring insert is configured to form the thinned flex point to be continuously annular.
15. The molding system of claim 8, wherein the movable ring insert is configured to form the thinned flex point to have a segmented annular structure.
16. A plastic container comprising:
a body defining a longitudinal axis, a container interior, and a container exterior, the body having an upper portion, a sidewall portion, and a base portion, the base portion having a heel portion and a hinge portion, the hinge portion being disposed inboard and extending toward the container interior relative to the heel portion.
17. The plastic container of claim 16 wherein the heel portion has an average wall thickness that is greater than an average wall thickness of the hinge portion.
18. The plastic container of claim 16 wherein the hinge portion is a continuous annular structure extending around the base portion.
19. The plastic container of claim 16 wherein the hinge portion is a discontinuous annular structure extending around the base portion.
20. The plastic container of claim 1 wherein the plastic container is composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for modifying operation of a finishing device in an image forming system, comprising:
obtaining a user intent-based finishing option for a document produced by the image forming system;
determining, by a processor, an orientation of a sheet of image receiving media presented to a finishing device that executes a finishing option for the document;
representing a difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and a default orientation for the finishing device mathematically;
describing default enumerations for available finishing options for the finishing device as mathematical representations;
applying an operation with the processor that combines the mathematical representation of the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving medium and the default enumerations to select the default enumeration that represents the user intent-based finishing option; and
directing finishing of the document according to the selected default enumeration.
2. The method of claim 1, the user intent-based finishing option being obtained by user input via an input interface.
3. The method of claim 1, the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device being determined based on tracking the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media as the sheet of image receiving media acted upon in three dimensions as the sheet of image receiving media progresses along an imaging flow path in the image forming system.
4. The method of claim 1, the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and a default orientation for the finishing device being represented in a mathematical matrix format.
5. The method of claim 1, the default enumerations for the finishing device being mapped to an index space.
6. The method of claim 5, the applying of the operation by the processor comprising manipulating the index space.
7. The method of claim 6, the index space being manipulated according to matrix multiplication principles.
8. The method of claim 5, the manipulating of the index space comprising:
translating the user intent-based finishing option into a centered index space;
applying a rotation that represents an inverse of the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and the default orientation for the image receiving media; and
de-centering the point in the index space to select the default enumeration that represents the user intent-based finishing option.
9. A system for modifying operation of a finishing device in an image forming system, comprising:
an input interface via which as user inputs a user intent-based finishing option for a document produced by the image forming system;
a processor that is programmed to:
determine an orientation of a sheet of image receiving media presented to a finishing device that executes a finishing option for the document;
represent a difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and a default orientation for the finishing device mathematically;
describe default enumerations for available finishing options for the finishing device as mathematical representations;
apply an operation that combines the mathematical representation of the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving medium and the default enumerations to select the default enumeration that represents the input user intent-based finishing option; and
an external communication interface by which the system provides instructions to the finishing device to finish the document according to the selected default enumeration.
10. The system of claim 9, the processor being further programmed to track the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media as the sheet of image receiving media is acted upon in three dimensions as the sheet of image receiving media progresses along an imaging flow path in the image forming system.
11. The system of claim 9, the processor being further programmed to represent the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and a default orientation in a mathematical matrix format.
12. The system of claim 9, the processor being further programmed to map the default enumerations for the finishing device to an index space.
13. The system of claim 12, the processor being further programmed to apply the operation by mathematically manipulating the index space.
14. The system of claim 13, the processor mathematically manipulating the index space being according to matrix multiplication principles.
15. The system of claim 12, the manipulating of the index space comprising:
translating the user intent-based finishing option into a centered index space;
applying a rotation that represents an inverse of the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and the default orientation for the image receiving media; and
de-centering the point in the index space to select the default enumeration that represents the user intent-based finishing option.
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute the steps of a method comprising:
obtaining a user intent-based finishing option for a document produced by the image forming system;
determining an orientation of a sheet of image receiving media presented to a finishing device that executes a finishing option for the document;
representing a difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving media presented to the finishing device and a default orientation for the finishing device mathematically;
describing default enumerations for available finishing options for the finishing device as mathematical representations;
applying an operation that combines the mathematical representation of the difference between the orientation of the sheet of image receiving medium and the default enumerations to select the default enumeration that represents the user intent-based finishing option; and
directing finishing of the document according to the selected default enumeration.