Patent ID: 7699052

Claim:
A device for the delivery of a drug in an aerosol of droplets by delivery of the drug under pressure, comprising: a container cartridge having a non-pressurized cylinder therein, at rest, containing a single-dose of the drug, a piston in the cylinder, and an outlet end opposite the inlet end having a dispensing facility and means for feeding the drug thereto; an elastic element for the storage of a predetermined quantity of energy; a mobile element to which the predetermined quantity of energy can be fed and which is coupled to the piston such that the energy can move the piston and expose the single-dose of the drug to a predetermined increase in pressure within the cylinder; and means for the respective introduction and removal of the container cartridge into and from an accommodation chamber within the device, wherein the device has a housing lower section, one end of which defines a bottom-side end of the device, a housing middle section housed rotatable against the housing lower section and a housing upper section, designed at least one of vertically swivellable and eccentrically rotatable relative to the housing middle section, with the means for accommodating the container cartridge, such that an end of the housing upper section, in the closed state of the device, is not connected to the housing middle section and defines a top-side end of the device.