Surgery: splint – brace – or bandage – Bandage structure – Support covering
Patent
1999-09-17
2000-12-05
Lee, Kim M.
Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
Bandage structure
Support covering
602 19, 602 21, 602 26, 602 60, 602 62, 602 63, 602 65, A61F 1300
Patent
active
061560014
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to garments and sanitary protections which can be tightly worn on a body part or articulation to be protected or aided in its mechanical action. The invention is particularly useful for making ankle-bands, leggings, knee-bands, general purpose elastic belts, elastic wrist bandages, special outfits for sport and other highly technical activities, speed outfits, etc.
In making elastic sanitary implements for aiding the mechanical action of articulations, in order to recover their full functionality after injuries or as a form of prevention in performing sporting activities involving relatively high stresses on muscles and/or articulations, it is necessary to ensure, besides the comfort of use, a good adjustability of the elastic tautness.
The conventional tubular elastic sanitary protections are obviously not capable of satisfying the adjustability requirement and can be produced only in a series of relatively standardized sizes.
For uses absolutely requiring the possibility of adjustment, both for the effectiveness of the elastic guard and for comfort, a common lacing must be used for joining two opposite edges of an elastic sanitary band or garment so as to allow to control the tautness and/or to modulate it along its length. The adjustment of the tautness by loosening or tightening the lacing is a wearisome and not very practical operation. In order to obviate the laboriousness of a lacing, use is often made of the so-called "Velcro" .RTM. wherein a strip material having a population of tiny hooks fasteners on surface is sewn onto an edge of the sanitary protection, garment or footwear and may be pressed into an anchoring engagement on the surface of a cooperating strip of piled fabric. The range of adjustment of the tautness depends obviously upon the size of the area of piled fabric available for anchoring the hooked part of the "Velcro", that is either sewn over the opposite edge of the elastic implement or on the same edge thereof, in which case the band of "Velcro" with the tiny hooks is first passed through a eyelet of the opposite edge of the implement and pulled back to anchor it on the sewn pad of piled fabric. In case "Velcro" fasteners are used for closing and tightening a substantially tubular sanitary protection or garment, the proper positioning of the sanitary protection around the articulation to be protected is made difficult by the need of elastically stretching one edge only of the implement before joining the two cooperating parts of the "Velcro" fastener, often resulting in accidental slippings of the sleeve or bandage, which must be repositioned after fastening it.
When, as it is often the case, these sanitary implements, bandages or garments are wholly or at least partially made of an elastic fabric comprising textile yarn of a natural or synthetic fiber, interwoven by knitting or other suitable weaving techniques with elastomeric yarns so as to produce an elastic fabric, paddings of a suitable fabric (pile) must be applied in the areas where the hooked Velcro material, sewn in proximity of a superimposable edge of the elastic fabric may be anchored. This need to provide for suitable "Velcro" anchoring pads arises from the fact that the elastic fabric cannot withstand repeated engagements with the tiny hooks of the "Velcro" material, which would quickly and irremediably damage the elastic fabric.
On the other hand, the need to have "Velcro" anchoring pads of a suitable pile sewn on the outer surface of the elastic implement implies the presence of local bumps and stiffenings which may have wearisome outcomes, especially in case of prolonged use of these implements for dynamic activities.
Furthermore, a predefined position of these anchoring pads "Velcro" limits the possibility to adjust tautness of the garment or sanitary protection and retail shops of these implements must keep an adequate stock of different sizes.
When, as it often occurs, the sanitary implement comprise stiffeners or reinforcements permanently or removably inserted into dedicated poc
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patent: 5139479 (1992-08-01), Peters
patent: 5382466 (1995-01-01), Ingham
patent: 5472413 (1995-12-01), Detty
Frangi Giampietro
Frangi Gianluigi
Lee Kim M.
Pavis Varese S.R.L.
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