Patent ID: 8511304

Claim:
An inhalation device comprising: two elongate form medicament carriers, each carrier having multiple distinct medicament dose portions in powder form carried thereby, the medicament dose portions of one carrier containing a medicament active, or a mixture of medicament actives, which is different from that in the medicament dose portions of the other carrier, an actuating member for actuating the inhalation device, a dispensing mechanism which is adapted to operate, upon each actuation of the actuating member, to act upon each medicament carrier together to dispense a single distinct medicament dose portion carried by each medicament carrier, said mechanism comprising, a) at least one receiving station for receiving the medicament carriers; b) a release for releasing in combination a distinct medicament dose portion from each of the medicament carriers on receipt thereof by said at least one receiving station; and c) an indexer for each medicament carrier for individually indexing the distinct medicament dose portions thereof, the indexers being mutually coupled; and an outlet, positioned to be in communication with the combination of distinct medicament dose portions releasable by said release and which a user is able to inhale thereat for simultaneous inhalation of the distinct medicament dose portions releasable by said release.