Patent ID: 8161968

Claim:
A medicament dispenser for containing plural elongate form medicament carriers, each medicament carrier having multiple distinct medicament dose portions carried thereby, said dispenser having a housing, and within said housing a dispensing mechanism for dispensing the distinct medicament dose portions carried by each of said plural medicament carriers, said mechanism comprising, a) at least one receiving station for receiving each of the plural medicament carriers; b) a release for releasing in combination a distinct medicament dose portion from each of the plural medicament carriers on receipt thereof by said receiving station; c) an outlet, positioned to be in communication with the distinct medicament dose portions releasable by said release; and d) at least one indexer for individually indexing the distinct medicament dose portions of each of the plural medicament carriers, wherein said dispenser further comprises a movable cover for the outlet, wherein the cover: is movable from an at rest position, in which the cover covers the outlet, to a primed position and then an actuated position to uncover the outlet, and couples to the dispensing mechanism such that: movement of said cover from the primed position to the actuated position actuates one or more components of the dispensing mechanism, and movement of said cover from the at rest position to the primed position does not actuate said one or more components of the dispensing mechanism.