Nursing band
AssigneeMedela, Inc.
InventorsAnita Treiber, Letizia Miotto, Sandra Rückewold
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Abstract
A nursing band providing better comfort for the user and comprising a lower cuff adapted to encircle the chest of a breast feeding mother below the bust and an upper cuff adapted to encircle the chest of the breast feeding mother above the bust and an intermediate section extending between the lower cuff and the upper cuff, wherein the lower cuff, the upper cuff and the intermediate section have anisotropic properties, wherein the anisotropic properties of the intermediate section differ from the anisotropic properties of at least one of the lower cuff and the upper cuff.
Claims15
A nursing band comprising a lower cuff adapted to encircle a chest of a breast feeding mother below a bust defined by two breasts of the breast feeding mother, and an upper cuff adapted to encircle the chest of the breast feeding mother above the bust and an intermediate section extending between the lower cuff and the upper cuff, wherein the lower cuff, the upper cuff and the intermediate section have anisotropic properties, wherein the anisotropic properties of the intermediate section differ from the anisotropic properties of at least one of the lower cuff and the upper cuff,
- wherein the lower cuff is made of a first fabric, the upper cuff is made of a second fabric and the intermediate section is made of a fabric having a lower specific weight and/or a higher circumferential elasticity than the first fabric and/or the second fabric, and
- wherein the intermediate section comprises two portions, each of the two portions being adapted to cover at least part of one of the two breasts of the bust of the breast feeding mother, and the intermediate section further comprises a support section at least partially surrounding the two portions, the support section made of a third fabric, wherein the two portions are made of a fourth fabric having at least one of a lower specific weight (g/m) and a higher elasticity than the third fabric.
A nursing band comprising a lower cuff adapted to encircle a chest of a breast feeding mother below a bust defined by two breasts, and an upper cuff adapted to encircle the chest of the breast feeding mother above the bust of the breastfeeding mother and an intermediate section extending between the lower cuff and the upper cuff,
- wherein the lower cuff, the upper cuff and the intermediate section have anisotropic properties;
- wherein the anisotropic properties of the intermediate section differ from the anisotropic properties of at least one of the lower cuff and the upper cuff;
- wherein the lower cuff is made of a first fabric, the upper cuff is made of a second fabric and the intermediate section is made of a fabric having a lower specific weight and/or a higher circumferential elasticity than the first fabric and/or the second fabric;
- wherein the intermediate section comprises two portions, each of the two portions being adapted to cover at least part of one of the two breasts of the bust of the breast feeding mother, and further comprises a support section at least partially surrounding the portions made of a third fabric;
- wherein the portions are made of a fourth fabric having at least one of a lower specific weight (g/m) and a higher elasticity than the third fabric;
- wherein at least one of the fourth fabric, the third fabric, and at least one of the second fabric and the first fabric, are knitted fabrics;
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- wherein every 4th needle is dropped in the knitted fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.