Patent ID: 6953039

Claim:
A medicament dispensing device for dispensing metered dosages of medicaments from a container comprising: said container having a first end and an opposite second end spaced from said first end along a longitudinal axis, said first end comprising a valve stem extending longitudinally therefrom and moveable between a closed position and an open position, said container containing a plurality of metered dosages of medicaments, said valve stem dispensing one of said plurality of said metered dosages when said valve stem is moved to the open position, said second end having an end surface and said container having an outer periphery at said second end, said outer periphery defining a first cross-sectional shape of said second end in a first plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis; and an indicating device comprising a housing and an indicator member disposed in said housing, said housing mounted to said second end of said container and comprising a bottom surface disposed adjacent said end surface of said second end of said container, and wherein said housing has an outermost periphery defining a second cross-sectional shape of said housing in a second plane substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis, wherein said outermost periphery of said housing is substantially identical to the outer periphery of said second end and wherein no portion of said indicating device extends outwardly beyond said outermost periphery of said housing.