Dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor – Totalizer for successive dispenser cycles
Reexamination Certificate
2002-02-22
2008-08-05
Ngo, Lien T (Department: 3754)
Dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
Totalizer for successive dispenser cycles
C128S205230
Reexamination Certificate
active
07407066
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus comprising a housing (1) defining a portion (2) for receiving in use a dose-dispensing container (20), the housing containing a dose counter comprising an annular counter member (40) and a driving member (41), the driving member comprising a planar ring portion (50) and first and second sets of flexible teeth (51, 52) depending from opposite sides of the planar ring portion, the first set of dependant fexible teeth (51) engaging a first series of teeth (47) formed on the annular counter member, wherein on movement of the received dose-dispensing container towards the driving member the first and second sets of dependant flexible teeth are caused to flex towards the plane of the ring portion to thereby incrementally rotate the annular counter member in a first direction relative to the housing.
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Brace Geoff
Ouyang Tianhong
Bespak plc
Ngo Lien T
Smith , Gambrell & Russell, LLP
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