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Nic Bowman

Douglas Bradshaw

Lennart Sörby

Lennart Sorby

Inhaler counter () comprising a counter housing (), a rocker arm () with a pawl (), the rocker arm being pivotally supported by the housing and arranged to perform a rocker movement in response to a linear actuation motion, a return spring () for resetting the rocker arm, a ratchet wheel () engagable with the pawl to convert the movement of the rocker arm into an incremental rotational motion of an axle arrangement () advancing a display means (), the axle arrangement further comprising a back rotation prevention means () in the form of a spring loaded friction brake and a worm gear, the display means comprising rotatable indicator means () with teeth that engage the worm-gear and a stationary scale.

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nic Bowman