Container having a safety closure

In combination:

• a container, especially a container of glass, metal or plastic material for pharmaceutical preparations or chemicals, said container having a tubular neck and an open mouth surrounded by an end face, a stopper adapted to be pushed into the mouth of the container neck and having a grip plate with a bottom surface limiting the extent to which the stopper can be inserted into the neck and also having a circumferential surface permitting grasping of the stopper by a person, and a safety sleeve projecting above the end face of the container neck, being disposed externally on the container neck and having a projecting portion conformingly receiving the circumferential surface of the grip plate of the stopper in the closed position of the container, the bottom surface of the grip plate resting upon an annular circumferential radial surface of the safety sleeve, screw-threaded sections on said sleeve and said container neck in the complementary engagement with one another over a limited distance when looking in the opening direction of the stopper and being secured against axial separation from one another, the safety sleeve having at least one projection directed radially inwardly from an inside surface thereof, said projection being snapped over a first annular bead on the outside surface of the container neck, said first annular bead being directed radially outwardly and situated ahead of the projection when looking in the opening direction of the stopper.