Appeal No. 98-2385
Application 08/403,995
APPENDIX
1. A catheter comprising
a main catheter body;
a first set of reinforcing filaments embedded in walls of said main catheter body and
extending in a clockwise manner; and
a second set of reinforcing filaments embedded in walls of said main catheter body
and extending in a counterclockwise manner;
wherein said first set of reinforcing filaments is comprised of equal and parallel
spaced filament groups and each of said filament groups includes two or more parallel
individual filaments; and
wherein said second set of reinforcing filaments is comprised of equal and parallel
spaced filament groups and each of said filament groups includes two or more parallel
individual filaments.
17. A method of making a catheter comprising:
extruding a base coat of a main body of said catheter;
providing multiple reinforcing filament groups over said base coat; and
extruding a top coat of said main body of said catheter over said reinforcing
filament groups;
the improvement comprising:
the use of two or more parallel individual filaments in each reinforcing filament
group.
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