Unequivocal bottom delivery container with self-sealing valve

A bottom delivery package for storing and dispensing a fluid material and having a shipping configuration which provides leakage resistance during shipment, a dispensing configuration which permits one step dispensing of said fluid material, and a traveling configuration which provides leakage resistance during subsequent transportation, comprising:

• (a) a resiliently deformable container having a tubular side wall for housing said fluid material, said tubular side wall exhibiting a degree of flexibility sufficient to permit deformation thereof in response to manual forces applied thereto and a degree of resilience sufficient to return automatically to its undeformed condition when said manually applied forces are removed therefrom, said container further having a top wall with means for inhibiting storage of said package in the inverted position and a bottom wall;
• (b) a tubular base attached to the bottom of said container, said base being hollow and adapted to enclose the bottom wall of said container, said base section further having an open lower end circumscribed by a bottom transverse edge adapted to support said package on a resting surface;
• (c) a valve assembly depending from the bottom wall of said container having a self-sealing valve incorporated therein, said self sealing valve in said dispensing configuration being adapted to open in response to said manual forces applied to said tubular side wall of said container permitting the discharge of said fluid material and to automatically close, terminating said discharge, following removal of said manual forces;
• (d) a discardable shipping cap removably affixed to said valve assembly over said self-sealing valve in said shipping configuration providing leakage resistance, said shipping ca being detachable from said valve assembly to place said package in said dispensing and said traveling configurations;
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• (e) a travel cap releasably retained on the bottom wall of said container within said base and adjacent said valve assembly in both said shipping and said dispensing configurations, said travel cap being adapted for placement on said valve assembly over said self sealing valve providing leakage resistance in said traveling configuration.