Flexible, abrasion resistant, woven sleeve and method of construction thereof

A woven textile sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members, comprising:

• an elongate wall configured to bound a cavity extending a longitudinal central axis of the sleeve, said wall being woven with warp yarns extending parallel to said central longitudinal axis and fill yarns extending transversely to said warp yarns, said warp yarns being woven as discrete bundles of monofilaments, wherein each said discrete bundle of monofilaments includes a plurality of monofilaments arranged in side-by-side abutting relation with one another, with said monofilaments in each discrete bundle extending over and under the same said fill yarns with one another, and said fill yarns being woven as monofilaments and multifilaments;
• wherein each said bundle of monofilaments extends over a single fill yarn and under a single fill yarn in repetition;
• wherein said fill yarn monofilaments and said fill yarn multifilaments alternate with one another along the longitudinal central axis;
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• wherein said wall has opposite edges biased into overlapping relation with one another by at least some of said fill monofilaments being heat-set.

A method of constructing a textile sleeve, comprising:

• weaving an elongate wall configured to bound a central cavity extending parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the sleeve with the wall having warp yarns extending parallel to the central longitudinal axis and fill yarns extending transverse to the warp yarns;
• weaving the warp yarns in discrete bundles of yarns, each of the bundles having a plurality of yarn filaments arranged in side-by-side abutting relation with one another, with the yarn filaments in each discrete bundle extending over and under the same fill yarns with one another;
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• weaving the fill yarns including monofilaments and multifilaments.