Method for cutting to length a piece of tube from a tube

A method for cutting to length a piece of tube (1) from a tube, the tube having an inner tube (2) and an outer tube sheathing (3), enclosing the inner tube (2), the method comprising:

• detaching the piece of tube (1) from the tube with a cutting tool at a cutting site in a cutting plane oriented transversely to a longitudinal extent of said tube,
• surrounding the tube sheathing (3) of the tube with a severable tube fixing element (4), which is a single-sided adhesive tape that covers over an intended cutting site before the piece of tube (1) is detached from the tube with the cutting tool at the cutting site, with the tube fixing element (4) completely enclosing the outer tube sheathing (3) in a circumferential direction, wherein the tube fixing element (4), fixed on the tube sheathing (3), and the tube are severed by the cutting tool in such a way that a relative displacement of the tube fixing element (4) with respect to the tube sheathing (3) or of the tube sheathing (3) with respect to the inner tube (2) is prevented and wherein the tube fixing element (4), formed as the single-sided adhesive tape, has a middle piece (6), which completely encloses the tube and is adjoined on both sides by tube-fixing-element end pieces (7, 8), the tube-fixing-element end pieces (7, 8) lie with adhesive surfaces (9) thereof against one another and the tube-fixing-element end pieces (7, 8) that are lying with the adhesive surfaces (9) against one another are placed against the tube in such a way that the adhesive surface (9) of one of the tube-fixing-element end pieces (7, 8) is adhesively held on the tube or on the piece of tube by a partial region extending over the other tube-fixing-element end piece (8, 7).