Bayer Intellectual Property Gmbh

Sven Filler

Sabine Leifeld

Tom Reinhold

Uwe Karla

Peter Weber

James Whittaker

Nina Voege

Nat Jarvis

Benjamin Holch

For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridgeis provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenserfor solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispenserfor this cartridgeis also provided. According to the invention, the cartridgecomprises a singulation devicethat is designed to dispense defined medicament portions T and that comprises a movable mechanismfor separating a defined medicament portion T from the reservoir and for dispensing it from the medicament dispenser, wherein the singulation deviceis designed to produce an operative connection to an actuating devicein the medicament dispenser

Cartridge, medicament dispenser for solid medicament portions, and uses of the cartridge and of the medicament dispenser

For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridgeis provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenserfor solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispensercontaining this cartridgeis also provided. According to the invention, the cartridgecomprises a transport safety mechanism for preventing movement of the medicament portions T during storage and transport of the cartridge. This transport safety mechanism is in particular a tolerance compensation plugthat sits with a frictional fit in the reservoir and that is movable in the axial direction. The cartridgealso contains a tablet riderwhich is movable in the axial direction in the reservoir and which engages through at least one axial slit in the cartridgeand with which a force acting in the axial direction is transferred to the medicament portions (T) in the cartridge, thus serving to hold down a column-shaped arrangement of medicament portions (T).

Cartridge, a pharmaceutical dispenser containing the cartridge, and applications of said cartridge and said pharmaceutical dispenser

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