Patent ID: 6415525
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: A41H

Abstract:
A measuring article for determining a size of an elastic compression garment from a measurement range of an object, comprising:a) a strip of material having a first end, a second opposite end, a first substantially flat surface having at least one row of size indicia, object indicia, directional indicia, start markers and size markers formed on said first planar surface and in proximity to each of said first and second ends, and, a second substantially flat surface on the obverse side of said strip of material; b) said size markers in each row in proximity to said first end and said size markers in each row in proximity to said second end, each comprising a first size marker positioned a distance from one of said ends, said first size marker distance correlated to a smallest measurement of said range of measurements and said elasticity of said garment such that said first size marker distance is less than said smallest measurement to account for said elasticity of said garment; c) said size markers comprising a first size marker positioned a distance from said first end and a last size marker positioned a distance from said second end, said last size marker distance correlated to a largest measurement of said range of measurements and said elasticity of said garment such that said last size marker distance is less than said largest measurement to account for said elasticity of said garment; d) said size markers comprising at least one intermediate size marker positioned between said first size marker and said last size marker to define a first space between said first size marker and one of said intermediate size markers and a second space between one of said intermediate size markers and said last size marker; e) said size indicia comprising a size indicia arranged within each of said spaces, f) said object indicia in each row comprising a description of the body zone being measured by said row; g) said directional indicia in each row comprising a visual indicator of which direction to measure from said first or second end beginning at corresponding start marker and continuing to the first size marker that is positioned a distance from said first or second end; and, h) said directional indicia in each row also comprising a visual indicator of the size range for each size indicia and at least one of said visual indicators beginning from said first size marker and continuing to said last size marker wherein said strip is capable of being wrapped around said object so that said first end may overlap with said strip at a position having one of said size indicia thereby indicating the appropriate size of the elastic garment for the object.