Patent ID: 7591264
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A device for taking powdered, grainy or granular substances, the device comprising: a storage receptacle for a substance; a supply tube having an inner opening, wherein the supply tube has a first end for dispensing the substance and a pivotably supported second end; a stationary cylinder body having a through bore; wherein the second end of the supply tube comprises a unitary cylinder wall that is pivotably mounted on the stationary cylinder body and has a through opening, wherein the supply tube is pivotable back and forth between a first position of non-use and a second position of use; wherein in the first position the substance is air-tightly closed off in the storage receptacle and in the second position the substance enters the supply tube; wherein in the first position the inner opening of the supply tube and the through opening of the unitary cylinder wall do not communicate with the through bore of the cylinder body; wherein in the second position the inner opening of the supply tube and the through opening of the unitary cylinder wall communicate with the through bore of the cylinder and wherein in the second position a dosage unit of the substance is present in the through bore of the cylinder body and is conveyed from the through bore into the supply tube by an air stream or flows out; wherein the supply tube has an inner opening; wherein the storage receptacle contains several dosage units of the substance, wherein the storage receptacle has a bottom side provided with an outlet opening, and wherein the through opening of the unitary cylinder wall, in the first position of the supply tube, is located underneath the outlet opening of the storage receptacle and receives a dosage unit and, in the second position, communicates with the through bore of the cylinder body so that the dosage unit drops into the through bore.