| abstract |
The invention relates to an inhaler ( 1 ) for powdery substances ( 33 ), in particular medical substances, with a substance storage chamber ( 27 ) and a dosing chamber ( 34 ), which receives a defined amount of the substance, is formed as a cross-hole ( 35 ) of a rod ( 36 ) and can be displaced from a filling position (B) into an emptying position (E), in which emptying position (E) the dosing chamber ( 34 ) is located in an air flow channel ( 21 ). To further improve a generic inhaler, in particular with regard to emptying of the dosing chamber in a way that is optimum for the patient, it is proposed that the rod ( 36 ) has a number of dosing chambers ( 34 ) that are located one after the other on the rod ( 36 ), which preferably move into the emptying position (E) one after the other during a discharge actuation and can be blown out one by one as intermingling small portions (instead of one large one) by positive air pressure in the air flow channel ( 21 ). |