Inhalation device
AssigneeGlaxo Group Limited
InventorsMichael Birsha Davies, David John Hearne, Paul Kenneth Rand, Richard Ian Walker, James Barry Douglas Palmer
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Abstract
An inhalation device is described for use with a medicament pack in which at least one container for medicament in powder form is defined between two sheets peelably secured to one another. The device comprises means for peeling the sheets apart at an opening station to open the container; and an outlet, communicating with the opened container, through which a user can inhale medicament in powder form from the opened container.
Claims23
A medicament pack for use in an inhalation device, the pack comprising an elongate strip formed from a base sheet having a plurality of recesses spaced along its length and a lid sheet hermetically but peelably sealed thereto to define a plurality of containers, each container having therein inhalable medicament in powder form, the medicament comprising an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of albuterol, salmeterol, formoterol, fluticasone, beclomethasone, ciclesonide, mometasone, physiologically acceptable salts, esters and solvates of all the aforesaid, and budesonide and solvates thereof.
In combination, an inhalation device and a medicament pack received therein,
- said medicament pack comprising an elongated strip formed from a base sheet having a plurality of recesses spaced along its length and a lid sheet peelably sealed in superposed relationship thereto to define a plurality of containers, each having inhalable medicament in powder form, the medicament comprising an active ingredient selected from the group consisting of albuterol, salmeterol, formoterol, fluticasone, beclomethasone, ciclesonide, mometasone physiologically accepted salts, esters and solvates of all the aforesaid, budesonide and solvates thereof;
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- said inhalation device comprising:
- an opening station receiving a container of said medicament pack;
- a peeler positioned to engage peelable sheets of a container which has been received in said opening station so as to peel apart the peelable sheets, opening the container;
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- an outlet positioned in communication with an opened container through which a user inhale the medicament in powder form from the opened container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.