EP1216319A1 - Absorbierender stoff - Google Patents

Absorbierender stoff

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EP1216319A1
EP1216319A1 EP00960844A EP00960844A EP1216319A1 EP 1216319 A1 EP1216319 A1 EP 1216319A1 EP 00960844 A EP00960844 A EP 00960844A EP 00960844 A EP00960844 A EP 00960844A EP 1216319 A1 EP1216319 A1 EP 1216319A1
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Prior art keywords
yarn
gel
forming
fabric
reinforcing
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EP1216319B1 (de
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Holding Ltd. Bhk
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BHK Holding Ltd
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04BKNITTING
    • D04B1/00Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
    • D04B1/10Patterned fabrics or articles
    • D04B1/12Patterned fabrics or articles characterised by thread material
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03WEAVING
    • D03DWOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D3/00Woven fabrics characterised by their shape
    • D03D3/02Tubular fabrics
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04BKNITTING
    • D04B1/00Weft knitting processes for the production of fabrics or articles not dependent on the use of particular machines; Fabrics or articles defined by such processes
    • D04B1/10Patterned fabrics or articles
    • D04B1/12Patterned fabrics or articles characterised by thread material
    • D04B1/123Patterned fabrics or articles characterised by thread material with laid-in unlooped yarn, e.g. fleece fabrics
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D10INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10BINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B2201/00Cellulose-based fibres, e.g. vegetable fibres
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D10INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10BINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B2331/00Fibres made from polymers obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds, e.g. polycondensation products
    • D10B2331/02Fibres made from polymers obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds, e.g. polycondensation products polyamides
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D10INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10BINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B2401/00Physical properties
    • D10B2401/06Load-responsive characteristics
    • D10B2401/063Load-responsive characteristics high strength
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D10INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10BINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B2403/00Details of fabric structure established in the fabric forming process
    • D10B2403/01Surface features
    • D10B2403/011Dissimilar front and back faces
    • D10B2403/0114Dissimilar front and back faces with one or more yarns appearing predominantly on one face, e.g. plated or paralleled yarns
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D10INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10BINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEXTILES
    • D10B2509/00Medical; Hygiene
    • D10B2509/02Bandages, dressings or absorbent pads
    • D10B2509/022Wound dressings

Definitions

  • the present invention pertains to fabrics that are capable of
  • fabrics are particularly useful for the control of bleeding.
  • materials including yarns, which gel when wet and which absorb body fluids.
  • Such materials are used as swabs during surgery, as hemostatic agents and
  • CMC carboxymethylcellulose
  • CMC as wound dressings.
  • CMC gels upon contact with water, blood or body fluids,
  • CMC also facilitates blood clotting while
  • a composite structure incorporating gel-forming fibres
  • fibres are gelled.
  • the present invention provides a composite knit, woven or braided
  • reinforcing yarn is knit, woven or braided such that the fabric is
  • the gel-forming yarn in one embodiment of the present invention, the gel-forming yarn
  • hemostatic material such as sodium carboxymethylcellulose
  • the reinforcing yarn is a thin strong synthetic material
  • forming yarn may follow the same yarn path as some or all of the reinforcing
  • the gel-forming yarn may also follow a different path by which it
  • the fabric may be made by
  • a gel-forming yam such as oxidized cellulose or CMC.
  • a gel-forming yam such as oxidized cellulose or CMC.
  • a fabric may be made by weaving, knitting or braiding, with a reinforcing yarn, a cellulosic yarn, the woven, knit or braided structure being such that the
  • reinforcing yam be resistant to chemical attack in the conversion process.
  • cellulosic yam thus converted is in fact gel-forming, highly absorptive and may
  • the resultant fluid absorbing fabric is stretchable, to
  • the degree the reinforcing yarn and/or the structure of the fabric is stretchable.
  • gel-forming yarn has absorbed water or blood or body fluid and formed a gel
  • Such a composite yarn may comprise
  • core fibre is a continuous strand of a reinforcing filament, or filaments, made of
  • Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of one knitted embodiment of the
  • Figure 2 is a diagrammatic view of another knitted embodiment of
  • the present invention in one embodiment, comprises a composite
  • hemostatic refers to a material that
  • Some gel-forming materials such as CMC are examples of CMC.
  • the term "reinforcing" yarn refers to a yarn that has greater tensile strength in a wet phase than a gel-forming yam with which it is
  • material suitable for weaving, knitting or braiding typically comprised of one or
  • Gel-forming materials or yarns of the type generally referred to
  • Such a material absorbs liquid and
  • hemostatic because they tend to cause blood to clot
  • Hemostatic, gel-forming materials such as CMC
  • the composite fabric of the present invention comprises a
  • the reinforcing yarn is a relatively strong synthetic material, with which the gel-
  • forming yarn is placed side by side during the weaving, knitting or braiding of
  • the gel-forming and reinforcing yams into a woven, knitted or braided fabric.
  • all or less than all of the yam courses of the reinforcing yarn may
  • woven or knitted fabric may comprise gel-forming yarn only, so
  • the gel-forming yarns have gelled.
  • at least 5% by
  • yarn may be used to yield a fabric of greater strength.
  • Lyocell is a solvent spun cellulose
  • the filaments in such a yarn may be chopped into staple form and
  • unconverted cellulose yam is readily woven, knit or braided into a precursor
  • ceUulose buUding blocks may be converted to the sodium
  • W Ue the present invention is not limited to sodium carboxymethylceUulose of
  • a hemostatic agent during surgery may also be used in the reinforced fabric of
  • the present invention and may also be converted (oxidized) after cellulosic yarn
  • hemostatic material useful in the present invention.
  • calcium alginate which is a material derived from seaweed, and, in matted fibre form, is also used as a wound dressing.
  • Other fibrous polysaccharides with
  • simUar chemistry and properties to CMC may also be used.
  • each of the multiple yarn end feeds to a weaving loom
  • knitting machine or braiding machine may comprise, in effect, two yam ends
  • one the gel-forming yarn (or a precursor yarn suitable for
  • a thicker (but weaker) yarn 1 which is either a gel-forming fibre or is convertible to a gel-forming yarn (i.e. a gel-forming
  • Reinforcing yarns 3 are knit so as to provide structural integrity to
  • the inlaying of gel-forming yarns 4 is such that even if the gel-
  • Knit forms of the composite fabric of this invention have some
  • the reinforcing yarn itself may be stretchable so that the fabric itself
  • invention is as a hemostatic shroud covering an expansible device, adapted for
  • precursor yam (12 tex lyoceU spun yam is knit together with a
  • the loop length is 5
  • the reinforcing yam comprises about
  • invention also includes the process of making a gel-forming or hemostatic
  • stmcture including a matted fibre or laid-in knit stmcture, as disclosed in the above-referenced WO 98/46818, by first forming the stmcture with gel-forming
  • fibre precursors such as ceUulose fibre or yarn
  • fibres such as nylon, and gel-forming fibres (or precursors thereof).
  • a preferred example of such a composite yarn is a core spun yarn
  • preformed yam may be another spun yarn, or, more commonly, a continuous
  • This preformed yarn may comprise a reinforcing material, such as
  • Gel-forming, or precursors of gel-forming, fibres comprise a second
  • the preformed yarn provide strength.
  • Such a yarn may be woven, knit or

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Materials For Medical Uses (AREA)
  • Woven Fabrics (AREA)
  • Knitting Of Fabric (AREA)
  • Solid-Sorbent Or Filter-Aiding Compositions (AREA)
EP00960844A 1999-09-27 2000-09-19 Absorbierender stoff Expired - Lifetime EP1216319B1 (de)

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US40649099A 1999-09-27 1999-09-27
US406490 1999-09-27
US61203800A 2000-07-07 2000-07-07
US612038 2000-07-07
PCT/GB2000/003586 WO2001023653A1 (en) 1999-09-27 2000-09-19 Absorptive fabric

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EP1216319A1 true EP1216319A1 (de) 2002-06-26
EP1216319B1 EP1216319B1 (de) 2004-04-07

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EP (1) EP1216319B1 (de)
JP (1) JP2003510475A (de)
CN (1) CN1214141C (de)
AT (1) ATE263858T1 (de)
AU (1) AU771967B2 (de)
CA (1) CA2384689C (de)
DE (1) DE60009727T2 (de)
ES (1) ES2222231T3 (de)
WO (1) WO2001023653A1 (de)

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CA2384689C (en) 2009-05-12
DE60009727D1 (de) 2004-05-13
AU771967B2 (en) 2004-04-08
WO2001023653A1 (en) 2001-04-05
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