A stackable container, including a body and a cap threadingly engageable with a neck portion of the body and having a vaulted interior and a top portion formed with a frustro-pyramidal depression for snap-registered engagement with a base portion of a counterpart of the body, the cap further includi
A stackable container, including a body and a cap threadingly engageable with a neck portion of the body and having a vaulted interior and a top portion formed with a frustro-pyramidal depression for snap-registered engagement with a base portion of a counterpart of the body, the cap further including handle projections and a skirt. Opposite stop structures prevent rotation of the cap relative to the body beyond predetermined threaded engagement; a detent releasably captures the body in the predetermined threaded engagement. A base portion of the body having inclined side walls facilitates rotation of the body with respect to the cap. The skirt guides the body into alignment with the cap. The base can have four of the side walls forming a square, the containers of a stack having any of four relative orientations. A consumable product such as a cosmetic can extend into the cap from the body.
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1. A stackable container, comprising: (a) a body forming a storage cavity and including a base portion, a barrel portion, and a threaded neck portion;(b) a cap formed for threaded engagement with the neck portion and having a vaulted interior forming a cap clearance surface and a top portion formed
1. A stackable container, comprising: (a) a body forming a storage cavity and including a base portion, a barrel portion, and a threaded neck portion;(b) a cap formed for threaded engagement with the neck portion and having a vaulted interior forming a cap clearance surface and a top portion formed for registered engagement with the base portion of a counterpart of the body; and(c) a stop structure for preventing rotation of the cap relative to the body beyond a predetermined threaded engagement, wherein the neck portion has an axial length, the cap further comprising a skirt portion that extends below the neck portion of the body when the cap is threaded onto the body, the extension being by a distance greater than the length of the neck portion, the skirt portion forming a body clearance surface closely clearing the body for effectively guiding the body toward the threaded engagement. 2. The stackable container of claim 1 wherein the barrel portion of the body has a body outside diameter, the clearance surface at a lower extremity of the skirt portion being circular and having a body clearance diameter and, when the cap is in threaded engagement with the body, the body clearance surface has a radial clearance from the body of not more than 2.5 percent of the body outside diameter. 3. The stackable container of claim 2, wherein the radial clearance is between 1 percent and 2 percent of the body outside diameter. 4. A stackable container, comprising: (a) a body forming a storage cavity and including a base portion and a threaded neck portion;(b) a cap formed for threaded engagement with the neck portion and having a vaulted interior forming a cap clearance surface and a top portion formed for registered engagement with the base portion of a counterpart of the body; and(c) a stop structure for preventing rotation of the cap relative to the body beyond a predetermined threaded engagement, comprising: (i) at least one body stop boss formed on the body; and(ii) a cap stop boss formed in the cap, the respective bosses preventing excessive threaded tightening of the cap onto the body by rotational abutting engagement as the threaded neck portion of the body reaches fully threaded engagement with a complementary threaded portion of the cap, and wherein the cap further comprises a plurality of downwardly projecting foot projections for supporting the cap when the cap is detached from the body. 5. The stackable container of claim 4 wherein the neck portion extends from a barrel shoulder surface, and the abutting engagement of the stop bosses preventing contact between the shoulder surface and the cap stop boss. 6. The stackable container of claim 4, further comprising a detent projection formed in the cap for releasably capturing the body stop boss as the respective bosses reach the abutting engagement. 7. The stackable container of claim 4, wherein the stop structure is a first stop structure, the container further comprising a corresponding second stop structure opposite the first stop structure. 8. The stackable container of claim 4, wherein the cap further comprises an outwardly projecting handle formation for facilitating rotation of the cap relative to the body. 9. The stackable container of claim 8, wherein the cap comprises a plurality of the outwardly projecting handle formations. 10. The stackable container of claim 4, wherein the base portion of the body is formed having a floor wall and side walls extending upwardly and outwardly from the floor wall, the base portion forming a generally frustro-pyramidal shape for facilitating rotation of the body relative to the cap. 11. The stackable container of claim 10, wherein, the top portion of the cap is formed having a generally frustro-pyramidal depression for receiving a bottom portion of the base portion. 12. The stackable container of claim 11, wherein the base portion of the body is further formed having a plurality of body projections outwardly extending from proximate bottom extremities of respective ones of the walls, the depression of the cap having a plurality of inwardly extending cap projections for snap engagement with corresponding ones of the body projections. 13. The stackable container of claim 12, comprising a pair of oppositely located ones of the cap projections, the base having an even number of the side walls. 14. The stackable container of claim 12, wherein the body projections are formed on each of the side walls. 15. The stackable container of claim 14, the base portion having four of the side walls. 16. The stackable container of claim 4, wherein a main portion of the cap is formed as an ellipsoidal shape having a length, width, and height, the length being at least 15 percent greater than the width. 17. The stackable container of claim 16, wherein the width is at least 50 percent greater than an outside diameter of the body. 18. The stackable container of claim 4, further comprising a consumable product received within the body and extending outside of the neck portion of the body and into the cap when the cap is threaded onto the body. 19. The stackable container of claim 18, wherein the consumable product is a cosmetic. 20. A stackable container, comprising: (a) a body forming a storage cavity and including a base portion, a barrel portion and a threaded neck portion; (i) the base portion having a floor wall and a plurality of side walls, the side walls extending upwardly and outwardly from the floor wall and joining the barrel portion; and(ii) a body projection extending outwardly from each of the side walls generally in horizontal alignment with the floor wall;(b) a cap formed for threaded engagement with the neck portion and having a vaulted interior forming a cap clearance surface, and a top portion formed with a frustro-pyramidal depression for registered engagement with the base portion of a counterpart of the body, the cap further comprising: (i) an oppositely disposed pair of handle projections;(ii) a skirt portion projecting in close proximity with the barrel portion of the body when the body is threadingly engaged with the cap, the skirt portion extending downwardly a distance greater than an axial length of the neck portion of the body for facilitating alignment of the body with the cap as the body is positioned for the threaded engagement; and(ii) a pair of inwardly extending cap projections located proximate opposite sides of the depression for snap engagement with a selected corresponding pair of the body projections of a counterpart of the base; and(c) a stop structure for preventing rotation of the cap relative to the body beyond a predetermined threaded engagement, comprising: (i) a body stop boss formed on the body and having a radially and vertically oriented stop surface formed thereon;(ii) a cap stop boss formed in the cap and having a radially and vertically oriented cap stop surface formed thereon, the respective bosses preventing excessive threaded tightening of the cap onto the body by abutting engagement as the threaded neck portion of the body reaches fully threaded engagement with a complementary threaded portion of the cap; and(iii) a detent projection formed in the cap for releasably capturing the body stop boss when the respective bosses reach the abutting engagement,wherein the base portion forms a generally frustro-pyramidal surface for facilitating rotation of the body with respect to the cap. 21. The stackable container of claim 20, having an oppositely disposed pair of the stop structures. 22. The stackable container of claim 20, wherein the base portion has four of the side walls.
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