US Patent 8652092 Applicator

The invention relates to applicators (1) for implantation of an implant, having a cylinder (2) and a plunger (3) displaceably mounted therein, which plunger (3) has a pusher plunger (31) for pushing the implant out of a cannula, the cannula being mounted on a cylinder part, the cylinder part (4) being movably guided in the cylinder (2), there being provided a gear mechanism (5) which couples the plunger (3) to the cylinder part (4), a movement of the plunger (3) relative to the cylinder (2) being converted into an opposite movement of the cylinder part (4).