Dispenser with doses' counter
AssigneeGlaxo Group Limited
InventorsPaul Kenneth Rand, Peter John Brand, James William Godfrey
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Abstract
There is provided a dispenser suitable for dispensing medicament, particularly medicament for use in the treatment of respiratory disorders. The dispenser comprises a housing having a support; a container, locatable within said housing, having an outlet, wherein said container dispenses through said outlet in response to movement of the container relative to the housing; and an actuation indicator having an indexing mechanism actuatable by movement of the container relative to the housing. A couple mechanism is provided which couples the indexing mechanism to the container to compensate for any variation in pre-actuation positionings of the indexing mechanism and container.
Claims58
A dispenser comprising:
- a housing;
- a container having an outlet member configured to dispense from the container, and
- an actuation indicator engaged to the container to form a unit therewith,
- wherein the unit is adapted in use to be reversibly located in the housing in an operational position in which the unit is movable relative to the housing to dispense from the outlet member;
- and
- wherein the actuation indicator is wholly located in the housing in the operational position.
The dispenser according to claim 3, wherein the actuation indicator is engaged with the outlet member.
A dispenser comprising:
- a housing;
- a container having an outlet member configured to dispense from the container,
- an actuation indicator engaged to the container in the vicinity of the outlet member to form a unit therewith,
- wherein the unit is:
- reversibly locatable in the housing, and
- movable relative to the housing to enable dispensing from the outlet member.
An assembly for use in a medicament dispenser, said assembly comprising:
- a container configured to house at least one medicament therein and having an outlet member configured to dispense the medicament from the container;
- and
- an actuation indicator assembled to the container to form a unit;
- wherein the unit is adapted in use to be reversibly located in the medicament dispenser in an operational position in which the actuation indicator is wholly located in the medicament dispenser and in which the container is able to be acted on by the dispenser to cause the outlet member to dispense from the container.
An assembly comprising a container having an outlet member configured to dispense from the container and an actuation indicator engaged to the container in the vicinity of the outlet member.
An actuation indicator for indicating dispensing from a container having an outlet end, the indicator having a body which is adapted to be mounted on the outlet end of the container so that the container and indicator form a unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.