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AssigneeBiotrack, Inc.
InventorsJimmy D. Allen, Michael E. Cobb, Robert S. Hillman, Dennis R. Mungall, Vladimir E. Ostoich, Gary H. Stroy
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An automatic drug tape dispensing and metering device and a roll of drug tape housed in a small portable dispenser unit. The dispenser contains a measurement device for carefully measuring the length of tape as it is dispensed from the dispenser. A counter monitors the remaining doses of drug tape remaining within the dispenser. A timer device may be provided to alert the patient that it is time for the medicament to be dispensed. As the lid of the dispenser unit is opened, the measured length of drug tape is severed from the roll by a cutter blade incorporated into the lid. The device permits a physician to accurately customize the dosage and administration of the medicament to be given a patient by adjusting the tape length released for each single dose and selecting the time intervals between dosages.
An ingestable medicament tape, comprising:
An ingestable medicament tape, comprising:
An ingestable medicament tape, comprising:
A digestable medicament tape capable of being fed from a roll and cut at preselected lengths providing a predetermined medicament dosage, having a tensile strength of at least about 250 psi, a thickness of from about 2 to 12 mil, from about 0.01 to 2 mg drug/mm.sup.3 and less than about a 5% dimensional change due to ambient variations in temperature and humidity.
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