Patent ID: 8672193

Claim:
A dispensing device for dispensing at least one component, comprising: a base body; an advancing element, which is guided displaceably relative to the base body and is designed to act on a container containing the component such that the component is dispensed from the container by means of an advance of the advancing element in a distal direction of advance, wherein the advancing element has a toothing along the direction of advance; an actuating lever having one or more teeth for engagement with the toothing of the advancing element, the actuating lever and the teeth together forming a rigid, dimensionally stable unit, the actuating lever being pivotable relative to the base body from an initial position into an activated position about a pivot axis to advance the advancing element in the distal direction, and the pivot axis being displaceable relative to the base body toward the toothing and away from the toothing for displacing the actuating lever as a whole between an engagement position, in which the teeth of the actuating lever are in engagement with the toothing of the advancing element, and a decoupled position, in which the teeth of the actuating lever are disengaged from the toothing of the advancing element, so as to disengage the teeth from the toothing when the actuating lever returns from the activated position to the initial position.