Nestec S.a.

Boehringer Ingelheim International Gmbh

Creaholic S.a.

Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.a.

Maillefer Sa

Smixin Sa

Andre Klopfenstein

Elmar Mock

Christoph Rusch

Naomi Bitmead

Achim Moser

Johannes Geser

Michael Spallek

Herbert Wachtel

Antonino Lanci

Burkhard Metzger

Hubert Kunze

Michael Krueger

Christoph Dworzak

Alfred Yoakim

Laurent Torriani

Matthieu Ozanne

Marcel Aeschlimann

Dieter Hochrainer

Jens Besseler

Heinrich Kladders

Gilbert Wuttke

Ralf Thoemmes

Samuel Malzach

James Peter Herrick

Randall L Morrison

Markus Mast

Amol Ashok Bhalerao

Patrik Duvander

Gary Cooper

Josef Eckert

Antonio Lanci

Bernard Guillemain

Philippe Desarzens

Florian Kaufmann

Herbert Kunze

A piece insertion method for a pipe, for example an irrigation pipe, including:

Method and system for manufacturing an irrigation pipe

The invention relates to a system for hygienically reconstituting and delivering food preparations, such as drinks, comprising a metering and mixing device connected to a container containing a base liquid, in the form of a package configured to be connected to a base station. The metering and mixing device comprises a pump for metering the liquid, a diluent intake and a mixing chamber. Coupling means are provided for providing the diluent supply and the means for driving the liquid pump.

System and device for preparing and delivering food products from a mixture made up of a food liquid and a diluent

A washing device for dispensing water in the sanitary field, in particular in a shower or a sink, including an outlet for spraying fluids with a lower throughput rate, as well as a delivery device for increasing the fluid pressure before the spraying. The washing device includes a heating device for heating the water. Atomization is accomplished by way of a fluid jet hitting an obstacle with a high relative speed. Thereby, the obstacle may be a moved or stationary solid body or at least one further fluid jet. Spraying is accomplished by way of the outlet including at least one nozzle set with at least two nozzles, for producing impacting fluid jets and for atomizing the fluid.

Washing device

A water purification device includes an expandable water collecting device having a variable volume, wherein at least part of the surface of the water collecting device includes a filter area, the filter area being permeable to water and allowing water to enter the water collecting device when the filter area is submerged in water. The device further includes a mechanically driven expansion means for exerting a force for increasing the volume of the water collecting device and thereby drawing water through the filter area into the water collecting device. In use, the water collecting device is submerged and the expansion means is released, drawing water into the water collecting device through the filter membrane.

Water purification device

A medicine dispensation device, in particular a multi-dose powder inhalator, for the dispensing of individual doses of medicine that has a number of medicine chambers contained in a medicine magazine shaped like a continuous loop. The medicine chambers form groups in such a manner that a mouthpiece reaches the different groups by an essentially complete rotation of the medicine magazine. This enables several medicine chambers&#x2014;typically one, two or three&#x2014;to be situated between two successive intake positions, which allows for a high density of medicine chambers and thus creates an inhalation device, which can be handled comfortably even when containing a great number of individual doses.

Medicine dispensation device

A device for dispensing a liquid is connectable to a container containing the liquid and detachably connectable to a base station having a drive member, the device including a liquid duct and a pump actuated by the drive member for effecting passage of liquid through the duct, characterized in that the device includes a cutter for piercing a tamper resistant foil positioned across the outlet of the container and that a push pin for actuating the cutter is operable from outside the device.

Device for dispensing a liquid

The invention relates to a medicament magazine with a plurality of doses of medicament, wherein the magazine is formed from a single foil strip in which pouches () for holding a medicament are formed as depicted in exemplary FIG.. The foil strip comprises for transporting the strip openings () on at least one side for the engagement of transporting pins. The foil strip has a certain width in the region of the pouches, which is less than the width of the foil in other regions, and the openings are arranged in this broader part of the foil strip. The invention also relates to a method and a device for opening a medicament magazine of this kind, the device preferably being constructed as a segmented wheel.

Medicaments magazine, and a device and method for opening it; multi-dose powder inhaler

An inhaler () is proposed (see FIG.), for the inhalation of a formulation () from capsules () that each contain one dose of the formulation. The capsules are preferably each emptied in a capsule chamber () by being set in motion by a stream of air flowing through the capsule chamber. The stream of air can be generated by the inhalation of a user or patient and/or can be generated actively generated by the inhaler. For simple handling, the inhaler has a means for, in particular, automatic filling, emptying and/or cleaning of the capsule chamber, if the latter is used more than once. Alternatively, the inhaler has a large number of capsule chambers that each preferably already contain a capsule and re preferably used just once.

Inhaler

A medicament dispensing device, a medicament magazine thereof, and a method of removing a medicament from the medicament magazine. The inhaler has a mouthpiece () and an air channel () connected thereto, as well as a medicament magazine with at least one medicament chamber containing a powdered medicament. A drive current is produced in the air channel, while a vacuum flow (') can be produced by the drive current and a constriction formed in the air channel. This narrowest part of the air channel that produces the vacuum flow is connected to a removal opening () which communicates with a control opening (), in order to form an emptying current through the control opening via the removal opening. In a preferred embodiment the at least one medicament chamber including the control opening, the removal opening and a fill opening are housing in the one-piece medicament magazine.

Medicament dispensing device, medicament magazine therefor and method of removing a medicament from a medicament chamber

The invention relates to a system () for hygienically reconstituting and delivering food preparations, such as drinks, comprising a metering and mixing device () connected to a container () containing a base liquid, in the form of a package () configured to be connected to a base station (). The metering and mixing device comprises a pump for metering the liquid, a diluent intake and a mixing chamber. Coupling means () are provided for providing the diluent supply and the means for driving the liquid pump.

A washing device () for dispensing water in the sanitary field, in particular in a shower or a sink, including an outlet () for spraying fluids with a lower throughput rate, as well as a delivery device () for increasing the fluid pressure before the spraying. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the washing device () includes a heating device () for heating the water. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the atomisation is accomplished by way of a fluid jet () hitting an obstacle () with a high relative speed. Thereby, the obstacle may be a moved or stationary solid body () or at least one further fluid jet (). Preferably, the spraying is accomplished by way of the outlet () including at least one nozzle set () with at least two nozzles (), for producing impacting fluid jets () and for atomising the fluid.

A device () for metering a base liquid and mixing this base liquid with a diluent to prepare a food product, has a connecting portion for connecting it with a container () containing the base liquid, the device () including: a diluent inlet (), a mixing chamber () for mixing the base liquid with the diluent. An actively controlled air inlet is provided for selectively having ambient air enter the device and guiding it to the container (). A controller is provided for selectively metering the base liquid into the mixing chamber and for selectively enabling an air flow through the air inlet only during periods when no base liquid is metered into the mixing chamber.

Device for dispensing a beverage with a controlled air inlet, and method thereof

The invention is a medicament magazine having at least one medicament chamber for use in a powder inhaler, wherein the magazine is formed from two foil strips applied to one another and the at least one medicament chamber is formed between the foil strips as depicted in exemplary FIGS.and. The medicament chambers have an internal structure () which comprises in its interior a space for receiving a powdered medicament and stabilizes this inner space against external mechanical influences. In another embodiment in which the internal structure preferably also has a stabilizing function, the structure has means for opening one foil strip. In addition, the medicament chamber contains a retaining device which holds the internal structure on the medicament magazine after the medicament chamber has been opened.

Medicaments magazine for an inhaler, and a multi-dose powder inhaler

Mobile or portable apparatus for preparing beverages comprising a module for delivering a beverage by supplying a pressurized liquid, a liquid feed tank of sufficient capacity for supplying the module with several volumes of liquid for supplying more than one beverage, gas pressurizing means suitable for supplying the module with pressurized liquid, a liquid feed chamber, of which the capacity is several times smaller than the capacity of the tank, said chamber being arranged, in a module feeding configuration, to communicate with the gas pressurizing means in order to pressurize the liquid in the chamber and to inject pressurized liquid into the module and thereby permit the delivery of the liquid through the module.

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La Neuveville, Switzerland

Andre Klopfenstein