Breakaway neck container with integral cap

Claim 1

An article of the type described comprising a one-piece soft plastic container and sealing member, said container having a frusto-conical hollow upper end which has integral therewith an elongated cylindrical dropper tip, the tip having a central passageway extending therethrough, the passageway having a length which is several times that of the diameter of the tip, the tip having a rounded end surface suitable for eye dropper usage, a sealing member integral with the end of the tip having a breakaway connection with said tip which terminatEs radially inside of the rounded end surface, the sealing member comprising a frusto-conical lower part disposed with its wide end at the dropper tip, said wide end having a diametral dimension which is substantially greater than the diametral dimension of said dropper tip, the narrow upper end of the frusto-conical lower part of the sealing member being integral and co-diametral with an elongated hollow cylindrical intermediate part having an internal length of at least the length of said dropper tip and having an internal diameter substantially corresponding to the outside diameter of said dropper tip, the outer end of said intermediate part being integral with an inverted hollow frustoconical part having an angle of generation which equals or exceeds that of the frusto-conical upper end of the container, there being integral with the narrow end of the frusto-conical lower part of the sealing member a central cylindrical elongated member which projects into the intermediate part of the sealing member and which has a diameter substantially corresponding to that of the passageway of the dropper tip, said sealing member having an overall length which is substantially greater than the length of said dropper tip, whereby said intermediate part serves as a grip for the application of force to effect the rupture of said breakaway connection and the removal of the sealing member from said container, and said frusto-conical lower part serves to prevent contact of the user''s fingers with the dropper tip while said rupture and removal is being effected, and whereby said removed sealing member may then be turned end to end and emplaced in enclosing relation to the dropper tip and to an adjacent portion of said frusto-conical hollow upper end of the container, said elongated member then extending into the passageway of said tip and sealing the same, said intermediate part then housing said tip and forming a seal at the outer surface of said tip, and said hollow frusto-conical part then shielding said adjacent portion of said frusto-conical hollow upper end of the container against manual contact.