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

Claim 0:
1. A compression article, which is produced from a three-dimensional flat-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 a body part to be treated by the compression article, wherein, in order to match in the circumferential direction a shape of the body part to be treated, the compression article has a plurality of points 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 and further in that the compression article is formed of a plurality of strip-shaped segments, which, in the circumferential direction, are separated from one another by zones of varying width in which the stitch increases or stitch decreases are located and the compression article is formed by closing the three-dimensional flat knitted fabric with a longitudinal seam.