Patent ID: 7827984

Claim:
Hand-held device for apportioned delivery of sprayable substances having a cartridge which has a valve tube seated on a supporting portion and is linearly displaceable by pressing in a housing into an open position for delivery, and an indexing mechanism which is moved during an opening stroke of the cartridge for registering and displaying delivery actuations which have been carried out, which indexing mechanism is disposed in the housing centrally below an opening-side end wall of the cartridge, overlappingly with respect to the valve tube of the cartridge, and having, disposed in the housing, step-by-step indexing mechanism indexing members which revolve about axes lying in the longitudinal direction of the cartridge, characterized in that the housing, including a base and the step-by-step indexing mechanism is displaceable downward as a whole onto the supporting portion by the advance of the cartridge and the displacement movement rotates a step-by-step indexing finger star.