Medical compress i
AssigneePaul Hartmann AG
InventorsJuergen Hofstetter, Horst Schmid, Rainer Halbauer
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Abstract
The invention relates to medical compresses, especially gauze compresses that can be especially advantageously folded. The invention also relates to a stack comprising a plurality of compresses, and a method for producing said compresses.
Claims11
A medical compress comprising at least 8 layers of a flat web textile material, each layer being connected by at least one folded edge to an additional layer, and at least one first folded edge and one second folded edge being located perpendicular to each other, characterized in that the compress is folded in such a way that the compress comprises at least two folded edges as first hems, wherein each of these first hems connects directly at least one of adjacent layers and partial sections of the directly adjacent layers.
A method for manufacturing medical compress comprising at least 8 layers of a flat web textile material, each layer of the compress being connected by at least one folded edge to a further layer, and at least one folded edge and one second folded edge being located perpendicular to each other, in particular for manufacturing a compress according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:
- a) Providing a rectangular material section of the flat web material having two mutually opposed first cut edges A and two mutually opposed second cut edges B, wherein the edge length a of the cut edge A is greater than or equal to the edge length b of the cut edge B;
- b) Folding in the second cut edges B of the rectangular material section (10) in order to form two first folded edges;
- c) Folding in the folded edges formed under b) in order to form two first hems of the compress, and;
- d) Additional folding in of the cut or folded edges to form additional folded edges or hems of the compress.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.