Apparel – Nether garments – Bifurcated
Reexamination Certificate
1999-01-07
2001-06-19
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3765)
Apparel
Nether garments
Bifurcated
C002S239000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06247185
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to the field of compressive orthoses for the lower limbs, and generally known as “elastic tights”.
Such elastic tights serve to apply strong compression to the lower limbs with pressure that decreases progressively from the ankle, and they are indicated for various syndromes involving venous insufficiency. They are made of elastic material, typically a knit of very fine mesh, with the tights being very accurately dimensioned so as to provide the looked-for degressive pressure.
Insofar as it is desired to apply compression to the lower limbs that decreases on going up the leg, the abdominal portion is a portion of relatively low elasticity, and does not provide significant compression (compressive support) of the abdomen.
It is often desired, in particular for pregnancy tights (as in DE-U-751 5833), to reduce elasticity in the abdomen zone in order to make this portion of the tights more deformable, thereby enabling the tights to adapt appropriately to the changes in volume of the abdomen during pregnancy.
In contrast, the object of the invention is to provide elastic tights that provide significant compression of the abdomen (i.e. tights that are not very deformable in this region), in combination with compression of the lower limbs, and suitable for use in particular in rehabilitation of the abdomen after giving birth (postpartum).
More precisely, the compressive orthosis of the invention, which includes an abdominal portion of compressive knit and two attached leg portions, also of compressive knit, is characterized in that the abdominal portion includes, in the front, a region of increased elasticity and of substantially triangular shape extending between the waist and the groin, said region of reinforced elasticity being suitable and intended, particularly during the post-partum period, for exerting substantially constant pressure on the abdomen in combination with vascular pressure on the lower limbs by means of the leg portions.
In a first implementation, the region of increased elasticity is formed by adding a patch of cloth having reinforced two-dimensional elasticity. In another implementation, it is formed by knitting elastic reinforcement.
Such a structure makes it possible to exert constant pressure on the abdomen and to provide the patient with continuous help and comfort during the period of rehabilitation that follows childbirth.
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Hale Gloria M.
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Jacobson & Holman PLLC
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