Mechanism to dispense medication to animals
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1. There is disclosed herein a mechanism to dispense medication to an animal, said mechanism comprising:
- means to determine the weight of the animal and to generate a signal indicative of the weight;
a control unit to receive said weight signal and being adapted to generate a plurality of command signals, said command signals having a characteristic determined by said weight signal;
a plurality of pump means each being adapted to receive and deliver under pressure a medication dose, each pump means being further adapted to receive a particular one of said command signals and to determine the size of said dose in accordance with said characteristic so that the dose size is determined by the weight of the animal; and
a plurality of dispensers each being associated with a particular pump means so as to receive a dose therefrom and adapted to deliver the dose to the animal.
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A mechanism to dispense a variety of medications to an animal. The mechanism includes a pump 14 which when operated delivers a dose of medication of predetermined volume to an associated dispenser 16, There is a plurality of pumps 14 each having an associated dispenser 16, Each dispenser 16, when operated, activates a control unit 13 which in turn activates the associated pump 14 so that a dose of predetermined volume is delivered to the dispenser 16.
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1. There is disclosed herein a mechanism to dispense medication to an animal, said mechanism comprising:
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means to determine the weight of the animal and to generate a signal indicative of the weight; a control unit to receive said weight signal and being adapted to generate a plurality of command signals, said command signals having a characteristic determined by said weight signal; a plurality of pump means each being adapted to receive and deliver under pressure a medication dose, each pump means being further adapted to receive a particular one of said command signals and to determine the size of said dose in accordance with said characteristic so that the dose size is determined by the weight of the animal; and a plurality of dispensers each being associated with a particular pump means so as to receive a dose therefrom and adapted to deliver the dose to the animal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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