Protective Textile Sleeve Having High Edge Abrasion Resistance and Method of Construction
AssigneeFederal-Mogul Powertrain LLC
InventorEmi Itoh
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Abstract
A textile sleeve for protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes both monofilament and multifilament yarns woven in both warp and fill directions. The warp monofilaments provide the sleeve with increased abrasion resistance, while the warp multifilaments provide the sleeve with increased flexibility and coverage protection to protect elongate members within a cavity of the sleeve. The fill monofilaments provide the sleeve with increased abrasion resistance and the fill multifilaments provide the sleeve with increased flexibility and coverage protection. The method includes weaving the warp and fill yarns in one of an open or closed wall construction.
Claims12
A textile sleeve for protecting elongate members, comprising:
- an elongate wall extending along a longitudinal axis of said textile sleeve, said wall having warp yarns including warp multifilament yarns and warp monofilament yarns extending generally parallel to said longitudinal axis and fill yarns including fill multifilament yarns and fill monofilament yarns extending generally transversely to said warp yarns, said warp multifilament yarns being provided in greater number than said warp monofilament yarns.
A method of constructing a textile sleeve for protecting elongate members, comprising:
- weaving multifilament yarns and monofilaments yarns with one another with a plurality of said multifilament yarns and said monofilament yarns providing warp yarns extending along a length of the sleeve and a plurality of said multifilament yarns and said monofilament yarns providing fill yarns extending about a circumference of the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.