Patent ID: 7082895

Claim:
A method for delivering a drug from a medicament dispenser to an animal, comprising: connecting a sleeve between a medicament interface adapter and an animal interface adapter; coupling the medicament interface adapter to a medicament dispenser in a sealed manner; positioning the animal interface adapter over at least one of a mouth or a nostril of an animal and establishing a substantial seal between the animal interface adapter and the animal's face surrounding the mouth or nostril; and wherein the sleeve is flexible, extends along an axis, and includes a plurality of successive sections extending along the axis, and wherein each of the sections has, a ring, and a skirt extending from the ring to a distal edge, wherein the ring is relatively inflexible compared to the skirt, wherein the rings monotonically decrease in size from a largest ring connected to the animal interface adapter to a smallest ring, wherein the medicament interface adapter is connected to the distal edge of the skirt of the smallest ring, and wherein the distal edges of the remaining skirts are connected to the next smallest ring, and wherein the skirt of each section of the sleeve extends in a monotonically decreasing matter from the ring of that section.