METHOD AND FABRIC FOR A KNITTED PRESSURE BANDAGE USING TWO SETS OF NEEDLES AND INTERKNITTING A STRETCHED ELASTOMERIC YARN

摘要

A knitted fabric comprising at least first and second threads or yarns knitted into a tube of interlock fabric comprising respective first and second interlocked rib courses (200 & 202 respectively), and a third thread or yarn (204) of elastomeric material forming a periodic plated jersey course interknitted with one of the first and second interlocked rib courses. The knitted fabric is particularly useful and suitable for elastic tubular pressure bandages or sleeve bandages, and can be advantageously employed as a lining sleeve for a moulded plastic or rubber article. The interlock stitches of the first and second threads provide a closely knit structure which prevents or reduces the liquid mould material from penetrating or permeating through the lining during the moulding procedure. The interknit elastomeric material provides elasticity of the fabric, so that the lining fits around the mould structure. The fabric may be formed on a circular knitting machine having first and second sets of knitting needles, by knitting courses of interlock using both the first and second needle sets, and periodically interknitting or plating a course of elastomeric material using one of the first and second needle sets.