Adhesive tape for jacketing elongate items such as especially cable harnesses and methods for jacketing

An elongate item jacketed with an adhesive tape, the adhesive tape comprising:

• a carrier;
• and
• a pressure-sensitive adhesive, applied on at least one side of the carrier, in the form of a thickened dried polymer dispersion,
• wherein the unthickened dried polymer dispersion comprises:
• (a) 30.0 to 98.0 wt % of monomeric acrylates;
• (b) 0 to 50.0 wt % of ethylenically unsaturated comonomers which are not acrylates;
• (c) 1.0 to 10.0 wt % of tackifier;
• and
• (d) 1.0 to 10.0 wt % of kaolin,
• wherein an organic rheological additive is added to the polymer dispersion such that the polymer dispersion has a viscosity before drying of 40 Pa*s up to 100 Pa*s at a shear rate of 10/s and a viscosity of 3000 Pa*s up to 8000 Pa*s at a shear rate of 0.01/s.