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Prosthetic fabric

  • US 5,919,232 A
  • Filed: 06/25/1997
  • Issued: 07/06/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A prosthetic fabric comprisinga sheet with a biocompatible, implantable textile structure conformable from a flat arrangement to a folded arrangement having a memory of the flat arrangement, andat least a continuous filiform element joined onto the textile structure of the sheet while also remaining free to slide with respect to the sheet, the continuous filiform element having first and second free gripping ends,wherein the continuous filiform element defines in the flat arrangement of the sheet a continuous line along at least on dimension of said sheet, wherein the continuous filiform element in joined onto the sheet with a plurality of catching points distributed along said continuous line, wherein the catching points are distributed over a surface of the sheet, along and on each side of a neutral axis, parallel to one of the principal dimensions of said sheet, wherein pulling on the two gripping ends of the continuous filiform element generates the folded arrangement of the sheet, ordered transversely and on each side of said neutral axis, and wherein pulling one gripping end of the continuous filiform element in either the flat arrangement or the folded arrangement of the sheet allows extraction of the continuous filiform element.

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