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US 12,180,624 B2Granted
Compression garment
AssigneeEssity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag
InventorsStefan Dittmann, Sascha Platz
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Abstract
The present invention relates to compression garments comprising a knitted fabric, wherein the knitted fabric has three or more knitted gores in a proximal portion of the compression garment, and (i) each knitted gore extends circumferentially around 50% or more of the proximal portion; (ii) each knitted gore comprises from 1 to 10 points at which the number of courses is increased; and (iii) each knitted gore comprises from 1 to 10 points at which the number of courses is decreased.
Claims22
A compression garment comprising:
- a knitted fabric formed as a tube-like structure defining a wale direction and a circumferential direction,
- wherein the compression garment comprises a proximal portion;
- wherein the knitted fabric comprises a proximal gore at the proximal portion, the proximal gore extending from a first terminal end of the proximal portion along the wale direction and having a first height along the wale direction that is a maximum height of the proximal gore;
- wherein the knitted fabric has three or more knitted gores in the proximal portion arranged adjacent to the proximal gore along the wale direction;
- and
- wherein each knitted gore extends circumferentially around 50% or more of the proximal portion;
- wherein each knitted gore comprises a first portion having a first number of courses extending for a first length along the circumferential direction, the first portion having a second height along the wale direction that is a maximum height of the knitted gore;
- and
- wherein each knitted gore comprises a second portion having a second number of courses less than the first number of courses extending for a second length along the circumferential direction;
- and
- wherein the first height is greater than the second height.
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