Releasably engageable coupling for an inhaler
AssigneeRespiratory Delivery Systems, Inc.
InventorWalter J. Makiej, Jr.
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Abstract
A releasably engageable inhaler including a housing for holding medicine to be delivered to a patient through a discharge port. A connector allows the selective engagement of the inhaler to other inhalers which may contain the same or a different medication. An indicator on the surface of the housing allows the patient to distinguish the contents of the inhaler or the sequence in which the medicine in two or more engaged inhalers should be taken.
Claims14
In combination, an inhaler coupler and at least two completely functionally separate and independent metered dose inhalers engaged to said inhaler coupler wherein each of said at least two metered dose inhalers includes an elongated housing having a chamber in which is received a container of pressurized medication and a port through which said medication is discharged from said container in a metered dose to the patient and wherein said inhaler coupler includes a connector that is releasably engaged to one or more of said at least two inhaler housings, said combination allowing separate and non-simultaneous administration of medication from any of said at least two independent metered dose inhalers.
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