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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1997
Frederick S Bernhardt, Croydon, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A device and method for reducing the creation of contact sores on the body caused by the body's contact with an external object. The present invention includes a garment having an internal surface and an external surface. The garment is preferably fabricated from a fabric material having at least one first thread made from a conventional garment material and a second thread made from a fluoropolymer material. The thread pattern is designed to cause the conventional garment material to be predominant on the interior surface of the garment while the fluoropolymer material is predominant on the exterior surface of the garment. The presence of the fluoropolymer material on the exterior surface of the garment causes the exterior of the garment to have a lower coefficient of friction than does the interior of the garment. As a result, the exterior of the garment moves across contacted objects with a minimum of chaffing while the skin remains padded by the static interior of the garment.