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A container for holding and facilitating dispensing of a substance. The container has a body with a peripheral wall defining a storage space for a substance and an opening in communication with the storage space to facilitate introduction of a substance into the storage space and dispensing of a sub

A container for holding and facilitating dispensing of a substance. The container has a body with a peripheral wall defining a storage space for a substance and an opening in communication with the storage space to facilitate introduction of a substance into the storage space and dispensing of a substance from the storage space. The body has a top and bottom, a top wall, a bottom wall, and oppositely facing wall surfaces on the peripheral wall between the top and bottom of the body. There is a fold structure on the body that causes a part of the body to reposition in a predetermined manner relative to another part of the body as an incident of the captive force being exerted on the oppositely facing wall surfaces. The fold structure includes a fold line that extends substantially fully between the top and bottom of the body and over a substantial portion of the bottom wall.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A container for holding and facilitating dispensing of a substance, said container comprising:a body having a peripheral wall defining a storage space for a substance and an opening in communication with the storage space to facilitate introduction of a substance into the storage sp

[ I claim:] [1.] A container for holding and facilitating dispensing of a substance, said container comprising:a body having a peripheral wall defining a storage space for a substance and an opening in communication with the storage space to facilitate introduction of a substance into the storage space and dispensing of a substance from the storage space,said body having a top and bottom, a top wall, a bottom wall, a vertically extending center line, and oppositely facing first and second surfaces on the peripheral wall between the top and bottom of the body and oppositely facing third and fourth surfaces on the peripheral wall between the top and bottom of the body,the first surface having a horizontal center residing between the third and fourth surfaces,the second surface having a horizontal center residing between the third and fourth surfaces,the first, second, third and fourth surfaces being viewable in succession from a first line perpendicular to a second line extending between the top and bottom of the body by turning the body around the vertically extending center line in 90.degree. increments,there being a fold structure on the body that causes a part of the body to reposition in a predetermined manner relative to another part of the body as an incident of a captive force being exerted on the oppositely facing wall surfaces,said fold structure comprising a plurality of fold lines that extend along each of the first and second surfaces substantially fully between the top and bottom of the body and over the bottom wall substantially continuously between the first and second surfaces,the fold lines on the first and second surfaces and top and bottom walls defining accordion folds,the first and second surfaces having a width dimension taken transversely to the second line,the accordion folds occupying substantially less than the width dimension of the first and second surfaces and located at the horizontal centers on both the first and second surfaces,there being a substantial portion of the first surface that has no accordion folds between the accordion folds at the horizontal center of the first surface and the third surface.