Devices for administering medicaments to patients
AssigneeGlaxo Group Limited
InventorsRobert E. Newell, Paul K. Rand, Robert A. Fitzsimmons
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Abstract
A device is provided for administering medicaments in solid finely divided form to patients. The device comprising a housing, a tray mounted in the housing and movable between first and second positions relative to the housing, a support disc provided on the tray and adapted to receive a carrier provided with at least one medicament container. A plunger is operable to penetrate a container registered therewith to open the container, movement of the tray from its first to its second position being such as to cause the support to bring a container into registration with the plunger. Air enters through an air inlet and there is an outlet through which a patient can inhale air having medicament therein.
Claims4
A device for administering medicaments in solid finely divided form to patients, comprising a housing;
- a tray mounted in the housing and rectilinearly slidable between first and second positions relative to the housing;
- a support provided on the tray and adapted to receive a carrier provided with at least one medicament container;
- plunger means on said housing for penetrating a container received on said carrier when said tray is in said second position to open the container, air inlet means in said housing through which air can enter the device, and outlet means through which a patient can inhale whereby medicament from an opened container will be entrained in the air flow produced by the patient, air entering the air inlet means and passing out through the outlet means having entrained medicament therein, and means rotatably mounting said support on said tray such that said support may receive a carrier having a plurality of medicament container arranged in a circle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.