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Compression article

US12421635B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG · SE

Inventors

Sascha Platz · Kleve, DE
Verena Voss · Hamburg, DE
Joachim Bauer · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 5, 2024
Grant date	Sep 23, 2025
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 5, 2044

Classification

Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
CPC primaryD10B2509/028
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A compression article and method for its production on a knitting machine, in particular a flat-bed knitting machine, wherein, in the compression article, respectively the number of stitches per stitch row is matched to the radial circumference of the body part to be treated by the compression article, and which compression article has a plurality of points which are distributed over its circumference and at which, in a stitch row, a stitch increase and/or a stitch reduction is realized, and wherein, moreover, the number of stitches in the wale direction varies over the circumference of the compression article and is matched, in the longitudinal direction of the body part, to the shape of the body part to be treated.

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