Medicament dispensing device

• US 4,274,550 A
• Filed: 05/07/1979
• Issued: 06/23/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Shimelman; Myer B.
• Original Assignee: Shimelman; Myer B.
• Inventors: Feldstein, George
• Primary Examiner(s): Bartuska, F. J.
• Application Number:
  US06/036,567
• Time in Patent Office: 778 Days
• Field of Search: 221/70-74, 221/15, 221/16, 221/2, 221/5, 221/7, 242/55.53, 225/10, 225/16, 206/530, 206/531, 206/534, 206/538, 206/539
• US Class Current: 221/71
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/04 Arrangements for time indication or reminder for taking medicine, e.g. programmed dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0445 for preventing drug dispensing during a predetermined time period
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/0472 the band being wound in flat spiral, folded in accordion or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 225/211 Manually operated feed-out mechanism

Abstract

The present invention relates to a low cost throwaway medicament dispensing device characterized by structural integrity for dispensing a medicament to a user in a time controlled manner so as to discourage the taking of an overdose of the medicament by the user without interfering with the dispensing of a prescribed amount of the medicament.

Claims

1. A low cost throwaway medicament dispensing device characterized by structural integrity for dispensing a medicament to a user in a time controlled manner so as to discourage the taking of an overdose of the medicament by the user without interfering with the dispensing of a prescribed amount of the medicament comprising:

housing means having a medicament disposed therein, said housing means comprising a unitary integral structure characterized by integrity against access to the interior thereof;

feed means interior of said housing means for feeding said medicament from said container to said user;

guide means interior of said housing for guiding said medicament, said guide means comprising a pair of grooves for receiving said feed means as said feed means feeds said medicament;

drive means exterior of said housing means for driving said feed means; and

transmission means between said drive means and said feed means for feeding a lethal dose of said medicament to said user over a time frame of from about 1 to 5 minutes thereby allowing sufficient time to discourage the user from taking said lethal dose.

2. A medicament dispensing device according to claim 1 wherein said transmission means requires said user to perform substantial physical activity to dispense said lethal dose thereby further discouraging the user from taking said lethal dose.

3. A medicament dispensing device according to claim 2 wherein said medicament is encapsuled in a continuous belt thereby further discouraging the user from taking said lethal dose.

4. A medicament dispensing device according to claim 3 wherein said time lapse is not less than 2 minutes.

5. A medicament dispensing device according to claim 4 wherein said drive means comprises a rotating element and said transmission means requires said drive means to be rotated through 360°

from about 5 to 20 times before said feed means feeds a single medicament.

6. A medicament dispensing device according to claim 4 wherein said drive means comprises a rotating element and said transmission means requires said drive means to be rotated through 360°

not less than 10 times before said feed means feeds a single medicament.

7. A medicament dispensing device according to claim 1 wherein said guide means has a third groove larger than said pair of grooves through which said medicament passes as said feed means feeds said medicament.