Container Styles Guide

Our Container Styles info page defines common bottle and jar terminology to help you select the right container. The image below explains basic container "anatomy", to which we will refer throughout this article.

A plastic or glass bottle is considered to be round when the container's horizontal cross section or base is a circle. An oval bottle has an oval-shaped base while an oblong bottle has a rounded rectangular base.

Oval Bottles

Oblong Bottles

(boston rounds, round bottles, squat boston rounds)

Boston rounds have straight sides with gradually curved shoulders. SKS' boston round bottles are considered to be a "squat" style with a wider, shorter profile than traditional boston rounds.

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Boston Round Bottles

(cosmo rounds, bullet bottles, jefferson round bottles)

Cosmo rounds are tall, narrow bottles with gradually sloped shoulders. Cosmo round bottles are narrower versions of boston rounds.

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Cosmo Round Bottles

(cylinder rounds, cylindrical bottles)

Cylinder bottles are tall and narrow with straight sides. These bottles have horizontal shoulders that transition into the sides abruptly.

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Cylinder Bottles

(pharm rounds, round packer bottles, tablet rounds, pill bottles, wide mouth rounds)

Pharmaceutical rounds are straight-sided, wide-mouth bottles with short, sloped shoulders.

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Pharmaceutical Bottles

(woozy bottles, woozey bottles, keuka bottles)

A round bottle with a narrow neck that tapers into a wider base. Woozy bottles have a gradual, smooth taper from neck to base while sauce bottles have a more rounded shoulder. Sauce bottles often have indented label panels.

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Sauce Bottles

A cosmo oval is a tall bottle with a narrow depth that has gradually sloped shoulders and an oval base.

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Cosmo Oval Bottles

These oval bottles have straight vertical sides, a narrow depth, horizontal shoulders and oval-shaped bases.

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Straight-Sided Ovals

(apothecary bottles, oblong bottles, flasks)

Similar to a straight-sided oval, a flask has a narrow depth and horizontal shoulders with an oblong-shaped base.

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Flask Bottles

(inverted oval bottles, tube bottles, Malibu tubes)

Tottles are oval bottles with rounded bases meant to stand on their caps.

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Tottle Bottles

Naples Oval Bottles