Patent ID: 6708688
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A metered dosage inhaler system with variable positive pressure settings for providing medication and exercise to the lungs of a patient comprising, in combination:a one piece housing having an oblong configuration with a generally planar top face and bottom face, a rounded rear face and a generally rounded front portion, the front portion having a cylindrical protruding user adaptor portion, the top face having apertures and a user controlled air resistance dial with supplemental apertures and parallel with the top face rotatable for controlling the amount of additional air allowed to enter through apertures associated with the dial, the top face further includes a flush circular medication adaptor, the medication adaptor having a small aperture passing therethrough with a circular lip extending outwardly for supporting a container within the small aperture, the bottom face having a handle/input adaptor comprising of a cylindrical extension pointing downward and lying in a common axis with the resistance dial, the housing having a hollow interior coupling a handle adaptor aperture with an aperture of the user adaptor portion; a downwardly extending handle portion of a cylindrical configuration with a first end and a second end, the first end being adapted to form an airtight removably coupling with the handle/input adaptor of the housing; an end piece with holes adapted to couple to the second end of the handle portion to define an interior space and allow air passage through the system; a spherical ball having a diameter less than that of the handle portion and adapted to removably rest in the handle portion and forming a resistance to the air flow through the holes of the end piece thus contributing to the resistant flow of air through the housing, the ball adapted to rise and open the holes in response to a vacuum caused by a patient during use; a mouth piece portion having a cylindrical first portion adapted to removably couple with respect to the adapter portion and a tapered second portion, the second portion adapted to fit comfortably within the mouth of a patient; an extension portion of a generally hollow cylindrical configuration with a body, a primary end and a secondary end, the primary end adapted to removably couple with the user adaptor portion and the secondary end adapted to couple with the first portion of the mouth piece, the body having a downward facing aperture with a neck; and an additional extension portion with a downward facing aperture with a supplemental medication container adapted to couple with the downwardly facing aperture to a patient.