Gw Pharma Limited

Matthew James Grey

Martin Philip Riddiford

Geoffrey W Guy

Rajiv Bobby Dave

A dispensing system for controlled, especially remote controlled, dispensing of medicaments is disclosed. The system consists of a dispensing mechanism adapted to receive a sealed or resealable container of material to be dispensed and to validate that it is the correct material, and which includes a mechanical actuation mechanism which, when actuated, causes a measured dose of material to be dispensed from the material container. The mechanical actuation mechanism may be inhibited from operation by a locking mechanism which, when actuated, locks the device against the further dispensing of a dose of material until release in accordance with the desired dispensing programme, e.g. until a certain time period has elapsed, or until the programme permits dispensing to occur on some other basis. The dispensing system may be in two parts, a hand-held hand-actuated dispensing mechanism () and a base or docking station () into which the hand-held unit may be placed in order to release the locking mechanism. The docking or base station () may be triggered to cooperate with a remote overall control system, for example a remote computer, by placing the hand-held dispensing mechanism () in it.

Dose dispensing apparatus

Secure dispensing apparatus is described which is adapted to dispense e.g. a prescription drug from an axial compression dispensing device (). This is located in a housing () including a dispensing aperture (). The axial compression dispensing device () is located in a central chamber of axial length slightly longer than that of the axial compression dispensing device, and structures () are provided at one end of the chamber movable with respect thereto to compress the axial compression dispensing device to cause dispensing via the dispensing aperture (). The structures () comprises a central breakable axial stem () attached to a pressure plate (), the pressure plate having a surface configuration on its side facing away from the axial compression dispensing device providing a set of surfaces () not in a plane transverse to the axis of the breakable stem, and apertures () in the end of the outer housing aligned with the set of surfaces of the pressure plate and none of the apertures () being coaxial with the breakable stem (). Structures such as a wall () are provided to limit the amount of movement of the pressure plate () away from the end () of the outer housing containing the set of apertures ().

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New Haw, United Kingdom

Matthew James Grey