A medicament respiratory delivery device including a housing having a chamber,
an inlet and an outlet generally coaxially aligned with the chamber, wherein the
chamber includes a medicament cartridge having a body including a generally cylindrical
passage extending through the opposed ends of the cartridge generally coaxially
aligned with the inlet and outlet of the housing having thin burstable polyolefin
membranes having a burst pressure of between 1.2 and 10 atmospheres stretched taut
over the ends of the cartridge, such that fluid delivered to the inlet ruptures
the membranes, entraining medicament contained within the cartridge passage which
is delivered to the patient's respiratory system through the outlet. The method
of forming the cartridge includes stretching out and bending a membrane to one
end of the cartridge, preferably by heat bonding, filling the cartridge with a
medicament and sealing the opposed end preferably with a second burstable membrane
by stretching out a membrane over a convex surface and heat bonding.