Claims
- 1. A warp knitted fabric suitable for use as a substrate in a resin coated orthopaedic splinting bandage which contains wales which are knitted from both elastic and inelastic yarns, wherein the fabric contains individual wales comprising a repeating pattern of loops knitted from an elastic yarn and an inelastic yarn, with the elastic or inelastic yarn mislapping when not knitted to form the loops, and wherein individual wales within the fabric contain loops knitted solely from inelastic yarns and loops knitted solely from elastic yarns within the same wale but in different courses.
- 2. A fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which in each wale the elastic yarn and inelastic yarn are knitted in a repeating pattern along the wale.
- 3. A fabric as claimed in claim 2 in which in each wale the yarn which is not being knitted as a loop is laid into the knitted stitches of the other yarn.
- 4. A fabric as claimed in claim 2 in which in each wale the yarn which is not being knitted as a loop is allowed to float on the surface of the fabric.
- 5. A fabric as claimed in claim 2 in which the repeating pattern along the wale is 2 inelastic yarn loops to 1 elastic yarn loop or 2 elastic yarn loops to 1 inelastic yarn loop.
- 6. A fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which the fabric has a lengthwise extension of from 15 to 200%.
- 7. A fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which the weight per unit area of the fabric when the fabric is relaxed is from 100 to 350 gm.sup.-2.
- 8. A fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which the elastic yarn is formed from natural rubber or a synthetic elastomer.
- 9. A fabric as claimed in claim 8 in which the elastic yarn is polyurethane.
- 10. A fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which the inelastic yarn is polyester yarn.
Priority Claims (2)
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8821223 |
Sep 1988 |
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8900437 |
Jan 1989 |
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CROSS-REFERENCE
This is a division of Ser. No. 663,875 filed Mar. 6, 1991 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,256,134.
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Divisions (1)
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663875 |
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