Dispenser for discharging media

US5964417A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ing. Erich Pfeiffer GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Esther Amann · Radolfzell, DE
• Karl-Heinz Fuchs · Radolfzell, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 7, 1997
• Grant date: Oct 12, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 7, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61M2205/073
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A dispenser for discharging media has a duct (14) including a medium outlet (12), and a dosage carrier (34, 35) mounted on a base body (2) and including receptacles (36, 37) for receiving doses of the medium entirely enclosed in respective reservoir spaces (17), a medium holder (21) disposed beneath the reservoir spaces and adjacent the duct (14) for holding the medium when it is released from one of the reservoir spaces (17), and a device (44, 45) for opening one of the reservoir space (17) to allow the medium to be first deposited in the medium holder (21), and then picked up and conveyed out the medium outlet (12) by a transfer flow through the reservoir space (17).