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A COMBINED CLOSURE AND SEALING ASSEMBLY FOR A BOTTLE INCLUDING A NECK HAVING EXTERNAL THREADS COMPRISING A RELATIVELY RIGID CAP INCLUDING A TOP WALL AND A DEPENDING SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL BODY WALL TERMINATING IN AN OPEN END, INTERNAL THREADS ON SAID BODY WALL EXTENDING INWARDLY FROM SAID OPEN END AND TERMINATING AT AN INTERMEDIATE LOCATION SPACED FROM SAID TOP WALL, SAID INTERNAL THREADS BEING DIMENSIONED TO ENGAGE SAID EXTERNAL THREADS ON SAID NECK, A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL FIRST SOCKET-FORMING WALL DEPENDING FROM SAID TOP WALL AND TERMINATING SUBSTANTIALLY AT SAID INTERMEDIATE LOCATION, SAID FIRST SOCKETFORMING WALL COOPERATING WITH SAID BODY WALL TO FORM A FIRST SOCKET THEREBETWEEN EXTENDING INWARDLY OF SAID INTERMEDIATE LOCATION, AN INSERT OF YIELDABLE AND FLEXIBLE MATERIAL INCLUDING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL MOUNTING WALL, A BASE WALL AT ONE END OF SAID MOUNTING WALL, A FRUSTO-CONICAL SEALING MEMBER DEPENDING FROM SAID BASE WALL, AND A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL SECOND SOCKET-FORMING WALL DISPOSED CONCENTRICALLY OF SAID FIRST SOCKET-FORMING WALL AND EXTENDING WITHIN SAID SEALING MEMBER TO FORM A SECOND SOCKET, AND AN APPLICATOR INCLUDING A ROD RECEIVED WITHIN SAID SECOND SOCKET AND MOUNTING SAID APPLICATOR ON SAID INSERT COAXIALLY OF SAID SEALING MEMBER SUCH THAT SAID APPLICATOR DEPENDS FROM SAID SEALING MEMBER FOR INSERTION INTO SAID BOTTLE WHEN SAID CAP IS ENGAGED WITH SAID NECK, SAID INSERT AND SAID CAP COOPERATING TO FORM AN INTERNAL VOLUME EXTENDNG AT LEAST PARTIALLY WITHIN SAID SEALING MEMBER FOR IMPARTING RESILIENTLY THERETO SUCH THAT THE FRUSTO-CONICAL SURFACES OF SAID SEALING MEMBER ACCOMMODATE TO SAID NECK AND PROVIDE A SEAL THEREAGAINST SAID MOUNTING WALL OF SAID INSERT BEING FORCE FITTED WITHIN SAID FIRST SOCKET TO PROVIDE A SUBSTANTIALLY UNITARY ASSEMBLY OF SAID CAP AND INSERT WITH SAID SEALING MEMBER BEING DISPOSED CONCENTRICALLY OF AND IN CONFRONTING SPACED RELATION TO SAID INTERNAL THREADS.