Patent ID: 8562553
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A compression bandage, comprising: a textile fabric shaped as an elongated rectangle; a hook strip comprised of hooks and fastened along a small portion of a first lateral face of said textile fabric defining a hook side thereof; elastic filaments running linearly in a longitudinal direction along said textile fabric and having, in a transverse direction, virtually inelastic supporting filaments, said elastic filaments having a spring constant in the longitudinal direction of 0.3 to 3 Newtons/cm of longitudinal stretching per meter length per decimeter width; and, a fleece side of said textile fabric having loops of soft filaments interwoven and uniformly distributed over a second lateral face positioned oppositely said hook strip, said loops being oriented approximately perpendicularly to said second lateral face and, in size and distance from one another, being complementary to said hooks of said hook strip, said fleece side and said hook side forming a releasable hook-and-loop closure.