Compression or support stocking

• US 20100137776A1
• Filed: 04/14/2007
• Published: 06/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Paul Hartmann AG (Schwenk Zement KG)
• Original Assignee: Paul Hartmann AG (Schwenk Zement KG)
• Inventors: Virkus, Antje, Berndt, Erik
• Granted Patent: US 8,317,736 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 602/62
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/08 Elastic stockings; for contracting aneurisms

Abstract

The invention relates to a compression or support stocking to encase a human leg, comprising a first understocking and a first overstocking, each with a leg section and a foot section, which can be worn over each other, wherein the understocking has a continuous pressure progression in the area between measuring points B and B1, and the pressure at measuring point 1 amounts to 90%-100% of the pressure at measuring point B. The invention further relates to the use of a compression or support stocking for treating Ulcus cruris venosum.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A compression or support stocking to encase a human leg, the stocking comprising:

a first understocking having an understocking leg section and an understocking foot section; and

a first overstocking having an overstocking leg section and an overstocking foot section, wherein said overstocking and said understocking are structured and dimensioned to be worn over each other, said understocking having a continuous pressure progression in an area between a first measuring point and a second measuring point, wherein a pressure at said first measuring point amounts to 90%-100% of a pressure at said second measuring point.

18. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said understocking and said overstocking are knit or circular knit fabric.

19. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said pressure at said first measuring point of said understocking corresponds to between 93% and 100%, between 95% and 100%, or between 97% and 100% of said pressure at said second measuring point.

20. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said overstocking has a continuously degressive or gradually degressive pressure progression starting from said second measuring point and progressing towards a hip of the human leg.

21. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said overstocking is a compression stocking with a pressure progression in accordance with RAL-GZ 387.

22. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said understocking has a continuously degressive or gradually degressive pressure progression in an area proximal said first measuring point.

23. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein a joint compression pressure of said overstocking and said understocking is 5-15 mm Hg higher than a compression pressure of an individual stockings.

24. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said understocking has an integrally formed foot section with a coefficient of friction of μ

_D≦

0.65.

25. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said leg section of said understocking and/or of said overstocking has a pattern or a pattern having waves running in a circumferential direction.

26. The compression or support stocking of claim 25, wherein patterns of said understocking and said overstocking are congruent when said stockings are worn over each other.

27. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said understocking has a marking for positioning of said overstocking.

28. The compression or support stocking of claim 27, wherein said marking consists of a change of color, texture or pattern in said understocking.

29. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said foot section of said understocking has an integrally formed heel section developed through thermal treatment.

30. The compression or support stocking of claim 17, wherein said understocking and/or said overstocking comprises thread or comprises threads in said leg sections, wherein an elastic core thread is enwound with a cotton fiber containing yarn or a staple fiber yarn.

31. The compression or support stocking of claim 30, wherein said cotton fiber containing yarn contains 70%-90% cotton and 10-13% algae containing fibers.

32. Use of the compression or support stocking of claim 17 for treating Ulcus cruris venosum by placing a wound dressing on a skin lesion, with the wound dressing being covered by said understocking and said overstocking being worn at least temporarily, or at daytime, over said understocking.

33. A compression or support stocking to encase a human leg, the stocking comprising:

a first understocking having an understocking foot section covering a foot region of the leg and an understocking leg section adjacent to said understocking foot section and extending upward from the foot region of the leg to cover a lower leg region of the leg; and

a first overstocking having an overstocking foot section covering said understocking foot region and an overstocking leg section covering said understocking leg section, said understocking having a continuous pressure progression in an area between a first measuring point and a second measuring point, wherein a pressure at said first measuring point amounts to 90%-100% of a pressure at said second measuring point.