Carolon Company

Richard Hampton

P Frank Hanes, Jr

An elastic compression bandage of narrow woven fabric includes cotton weft yarn picks and textured stretch nylon multifilament warp yarns having total deniers in the range of from 210 to 560. The construction provides from 10 to 16 weft yarn picks per inch and from 30 to 40 warp yarns per inch in the as-woven fabric. Spaced apart across the width of the fabric are pairs of warp yarns interwoven with the weft yarn picks in a leno construction that provides high frictional resistance to slippage between those warp yarns and the weft yarns. The ratio of leno pairs to non-leno warp yarns is in the range of from 1/6 to 1/14. The non-leno warp yarns and the weft yarn picks are interwoven in a 1.times.1 weave. The leno pairs are in a pretensioned state when the bandage is in an unstretched condition.

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Clemmons, NC, United States of America

Richard Hampton