Patent ID: 11952686
Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 1:
2. A compression article produced from a knitted fabric created on a knitting machine and in which a number of stitches are provided in rows in a circumferential direction and wales in a longitudinal direction respectively and the number of stitches per row is matched to a radial circumference of the body part to be treated by the compression article, wherein the compression article is a compression stocking or sleeve formed of a double-layered knitted fabric and wherein, in order to match in the circumferential direction the shape of the body part to be treated, the compression article has a plurality of locations at which, in a row, a stitch increase or a stitch reduction with respect to a preceding row is realized, and in that, moreover, the number of stitches in a wale varies over the circumference of the compression article whereby the compression article is additionally matched, in the longitudinal direction, to the shape of the body part to be treated.