Dosing stick containing rod-shaped tablets

• US 20040178218A1
• Filed: 04/22/2004
• Published: 09/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Andreas Grummel, Jurgen Schomakers
• Original Assignee: Andreas Grummel, Jurgen Schomakers
• Inventors: Schomakers, Jurgen, Grummel, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US10/480,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20040178218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 221/289
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/02 Casings wherein movement of the lipstick or like solid is a sliding movement A45D40/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/04 effected by a screw
• CPC Class Codes: A45D 40/08 with provision for sieves or shaping parts for sticks ends
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/06 into the form of pills, lozenges or dragees

Abstract

The invention relates to a novel form of medicament or of administration, embodied as a dosing stick containing at least one rod-shaped tablet for the individual dosage of active ingredients, said dosage being adapted to the treatment.

Claims

1. Dosing pen containing at least one tablet bar (1, FIG. 1), characterised in that the tablet bar is associated with a guide pocket (5, FIG. 1) and is conveyed to a discharge shaft (7, FIG. 1) with the aid of an adjusting means and can be divided into individually cut pieces of required length by a cutting means (6, FIG. 1).

2. Dosing pen according to claim 1, characterised in that the adjusting means is a screw mechanism (3 and 4, FIG. 1), a pressure mechanism (FIG. 3), a pumping mechanism (FIG. 4), a pulley mechanism (FIG. 5) or an electric feed mechanism.

3. Dosing pen according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the dosing pen contains a dose indicator (2, FIG. 1).

4. Dosing pen according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the cutting means (6, FIG. 1) consists of one or several cutting blades and is arranged diagonally (FIG. 2a), in parallel (FIG. 2b) or in the form of an aperture closure (FIG. 2c) at the discharge shaft (7).

5. Dosing pen according to any one of claims 1-4, characterised in that the tablet bar contains at least one active ingredient or combination of active ingredients and may preferably also contain further ancillary substances and additives.

6. Dosing pen according to claims 1-5, characterised in that the tablet bar exhibits a homogeneous distribution of active ingredients and may feature breakage notches.

7. Method of controlling the dosage strength of active ingredients, whereby a tablet bar according to claim 5 or 6 is advanced in a dosing pen by means of an adjusting mechanism according to claim 2 and is separated by a cutting means into individual pieces of the required length in accordance with claim 4.

8. Method according to claim 7, whereby the required length of individual pieces is recorded by a dose indicator.

9. The use of a dosing pen in therapy, according to claims 1-6.