| 摘要 |
A multicolored braided surgical suture is woven in one embodiment in a spiral multi-color braid. The suture is braided by moving thread carriers from position to position around a circular path, with each carrier moving from a present position to a succeeding position which is at least two positions removed from its present position. Such spiral braided sutures are advantageously produced without core filaments, providing benefits in strength, smoothness, pliability, cylindrical uniformity without the discontinuity of properties characteristic of conventionally braided cored sutures and visibility. The surgical suture is woven in a multi-color lattice braid in another embodiment, providing a plurality of distributed core passageways for individual core fibers. <IMAGE> |
