Apparatus for the testing of elastic textile leg garments

US7509874B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Salzmann AG · CH

Inventors

• Daniel Kuenzli · Langendorf, CH
• Walter Braun · Centennial, US
• Muck Ruettiger · Iffezheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 31, 2009
• Expiry date: May 29, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2203/0274
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The apparatus has an elongate and vertically running carrier (90) for pressure sensors (50), which precedes a group of levers (71 ). The cross section of this carrier (90) is arcuate, so that it has two flanks (93, 94 ). During the testing of a leg garment (80), this carrier (90) simulates the region of the shin. The apparatus has, furthermore, moldings or stays (88) which are carried by the levers and which simulate the rear face of the calf or of the thigh of a leg. The width of these stays corresponds to the width of the calf or of the thigh of a leg. The apparatus also comprises two longitudinally running groups (50) of pressure sensors, one of which is in each case assigned to outside of one of the flanks (93, 94) of the carrier (90). The leg garment (80) to be tested, in order to test it, is slipped over this apparatus in such a way that it lies on the outer faces both of the carrier (90) and of the stays and exerts pressure on the pressure sensors (51). Free-standing portions (81, 82) of the leg garment (80) extend between the carrier (90 ) and the stay (88). An evaluation device is provided, which can evaluate and indicate the values emitted by the pressure sensors.