Abstract: A wound dressing for application to a protruding part of a joint of the body, in particular the heel. The dressing includes an elongated first part for placing on one side of the protruding joint part, and a second part for placing on another side of the joint, and two ear parts extending laterally from the second part. At least the central parts of the first part, the second part and the ear parts of the dressing are covered with an absorbent element. A portion of each laterally extending ear part between its outermost lateral point and a longitudinal tip of the second part is concave to facilitate wrapping of the ear parts around the heel without overlapping of the absorbent element.

Abstract: A wound dressing for application to a protruding part of a joint of the body which dressing comprises an elongated first part (7) for placing on one side of the protruding part of the joint, and a second part (8) for placing on another side of the joint, and two ear parts (9) extending from the second part, wherein at least the central parts of the first, the second part and the ear parts of the dressing are covered with an absorbent element (11), wherein at least a part of said absorbent element extends to the edge of at least one of the parts of the dressing, and wherein the side edges (12) of the absorbent element of the first part are essentially in an angle of 45-120 degrees to the neighbouring edges of the absorbent element of the ear parts (15).

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously drying and shrinking lengths of textile material (111) comprises a plurality of chambers (21 to 44), in which the textile material (111) is sucked through an inlet by means of drying air and carried along a treatment path to an outlet. The textile material is advanced to the inlet by means of a rotating winch. The chambers (21 to 44) are interconnected in series providing a treatment path for the textile material (111). The textile material is carried in sequence from the outlet of one chamber to the inlet of the succeeding chamber. The chambers (21 to 44) are arranged in succeeding, mutually separated groups (21 to 27, 28 to 35, 36 to 43, and 44), each group comprising an air feeding device (90) feeding heated drying air substantially to all its inlets (50), said air feeding device receiving air from all the succeeding groups.