Apparatus for oral administration of a medicament

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Inventors: Stock, Spencer C.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Pellegrino; Stephen C.
Assistant Examiner: Rafa; Michael
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Scrivener and Clark

An apparatus for oral administration of a medicament or the like comprises a pill tray (4) and a liquid reservoir (6). The tray (4) has an upper surface bounded by lips (5) and adapted to carry solid medicament. The reservoir (6) has an opening (7) close to the pill tray (4) and adapted to allow controlled release of said liquid, to wash the pill or medicament down the throat of the patient.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
An apparatus for oral administration to a patient of a solid medicament comprising tray means having a surface to carry said solid medicament, a reservoir for liquid connected to said tray means, a permanently open opening in an uppermost surface of said reservoir and disposed with respect to said tray means and being of a size that following insertion into a patient's mouth of said solid medicament on said tray means and inversion of said reservoir, liquid exiting from said reservoir through said opening washes said solid medicament towards and down the throat of the patient, and manually operable means to control flow of liquid from said reservoir.
2.
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said manually operable means comprises a manually closable vent for the reservoir adjacent an end thereof remote from said tray means to allow manual control of release of said liquid through said opening.
3.
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tray means and reservoir are dimensioned to be partially insertable into the mouth of a patient and at least partially inverted therein by manual operation of that portion of the reservoir outside the mouth, such inversion causing the solid medicament to fall from the tray means and at least some of the liquid to be released from the reservoir.
4.
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the solid medicament is wetted to be retained on the tray means by surface effects and be washed therefrom by liquid released from the reservoir.
5.
An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the liquid is water.

Description:
The present invention relates to an apparatus for oral administration of a medicament or the like.
Particularly, but not exclusively, it relates to an apparatus of the above type for use in administration to a patient who is unable to swallow solid medicaments easily or one who would prefer not to receive any medicament at all.
The term "patient" is used herein in a wide sense to include not only human patients but also animal patients

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