Counter
AssigneeEuro-Celtique S.A.
InventorRaymond Bacon
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Abstract
The present invention provices a counter comprising: a first member disposed in at least a partial helical turn about a longitudinal axis of an entity whose movements and/or contents are to be counted, said first member having an indicium or indicia indicative of a count; a second member extending generally in the direction of said longitudinal axis, said second member being operatively disposed in overlapping relationship under and over one or more portions of said at least partial helical turn of said first member; and means to effect relative movement between said first and second members, said movement comprising a relative incremental rotation about said longitudinal axis.
Claims31
A counter comprising:
- a first member disposed in at least a partial helical turn about a longitudinal axis of an entity whose movements and/or contents are to be counted, said first member having an indicium or indicia indicative of a count;
- a second member extending generally in the direction of said longitudinal axis, said second member being operatively disposed in overlapping relationship under and over one or more portions of said at least partial helical turn of said first member, when viewed from the outside;
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- means to effect relative movement between said first and second members, said movement comprising a relative incremental rotation about said longitudinal axis.
A dose counter for use with a dispenser having a body for receiving a medicament container and a dispensing mechanism for dispensing a dose of medicament from said container, the dose counter comprising:
- a first member disposed in at least a partial helical turn about a longitudinal axis of said medicament container and having an indicium or indicia indicative of the number of doses of medicament dispensed from, or remaining, in said container;
- a second member extending generally in the direction of said longitudinal axis, said second member being operatively disposed in overlapping relationship under and over one or more portions of said at least partial helical turns of said first member, when viewed from the outside;
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- means to effect relative movement between said first and second members when said dispensing mechanism is actuated, said movement comprising a relative incremental rotation about said longitudinal axis.
A dose counter for use with a dispenser having a body for receiving a medicament container and a dispensing mechanism for dispensing a dose of medicament from said container, the dose counter comprising:
- a first member disposed in a single or partial helical turn about a longitudinal axis of said medicament container and having an indicium or indicia indicative of the number of doses of medicament dispensed from, or remaining, in said container;
- a second member extending generally in the direction of said longitudinal axis, said second member being operatively disposed in overlapping relationship under and over one or more portions of said at least partial helical turn of said first member, when viewed from the outside;
- a housing having a window extending generally in the direction of said longitudinal axis, said housing being operatively disposed in overlapping relationship with said first member such that only one portion of said single or partial helical turn of said first member is exposed to said window;
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- means to effect relative movement between said first member, and said second member and said housing when said dispensing mechanism is actuated, said movement comprising a relative incremental rotation about said longitudinal axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.