Leg apparel
AssigneeFALKE KGaA
InventorsAngela Langer, Claudius Brinkmann, Georg Wüllner
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Abstract
In order to provide an article of leg apparel, in particular a stocking, which is suitable for reducing the risk of injury to the wearer of the leg apparel, particularly during sports activities and to achieve compensation of possible functional imbalances in the musculoskeletal system of the wearer, it is proposed that the leg apparel includes at least one compression region in which, in the worn state, the leg apparel exerts a compression effect on the leg of the wearer of the leg apparel, and includes at least one stimulus-inducing structure which, in the worn state, is arranged on an inside of the leg apparel facing toward the leg of the wearer of the leg apparel.
Claims33
-33. (canceled)
Leg apparel, which comprises at least one compression region in which, in a worn state, the leg apparel exerts a compression effect on the leg of a wearer of the leg apparel, and comprises at least one stimulus-inducing structure arranged on an inside of the leg apparel, wherein, in the worn state, the at least one stimulus-inducing structure faces toward the leg of the wearer of the leg apparel,
- wherein at least one of the at least one stimulus-inducing structure comprises a plurality of stimulus-inducing functional elements arranged within a stimulus induction zone delimited by an outer contour of the respective stimulus-inducing structure,
- wherein the plurality of functional elements of the at least one stimulus-inducing structure are isolated from one another and an area density of the plurality of functional elements within the at least one stimulus-inducing structure is at least 1 per cm2,
- wherein the leg apparel comprises a basic knit material,
- wherein the plurality of functional elements each have a largest extent along a surface direction of the basic knit material of more than 0.2 cm and each comprise a knitted region of the basic knit material of the leg apparel,
- wherein the knitted region of each of the plurality of functional elements differs, with regard to a knitted construction of the knitted region of the respective functional element, from a knitted region of the basic knit material of the leg apparel adjoining and surrounding the respective functional element, and
- wherein the knitted region of the respective functional element is configured as a plush,
- wherein the knitted region of the respective functional element comprises a plurality of stitch wales and a plurality of stitch rows, and an additional plush thread is knitted into the basic knit material with a plush weave in the knitted region of the respective functional element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.