Patent ID: 7169133

Claim:
An injection device, comprising: a) a housing having a longitudinal axis; b) a reservoir positioned within the housing and containing a product to be injected; c) an advancing apparatus that carries out an advancing movement in order to advance an adjusted product dose from the reservoir; d) a dosing member that carries out a propulsion movement relative to the housing in a propulsion direction and a dosing movement counter to the propulsion direction, said dosing member coupled with the advancing apparatus such that the propulsion movement causes the advancing movement of the advancing apparatus; e) a first catch mechanism formed in the housing; and f) a second catch mechanism formed on the dosing member and adapted to releasably engage the first catch mechanism g) wherein the adjusted product dose is selected and set prior to injection of the product via a non-rotational dosage selecting and setting movement of sliding the dosing member along the longitudinal axis of the housing until the second catch mechanism engages with the first catch mechanism.