Shaped fabric products and methods of making same
AssigneeThe Bentley-Harris Manufacturing Company
InventorsMichael A. Ford, Richard A. Barlow, Martin I. Jacobs
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Abstract
Disclosed are flexible, kink-resistant shaped fabric products which are particularly well adapted for protecting and/or covering elongate substrates, such as cables, conduits, wiring and the like. The shaped fabric products include a wall portion comprising a filament resiliently set in a spiral configuration with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shaped product. The wall portion may also preferably comprise a filament in the form of circumferential hoops substantially conforming in shape and size to the cross-sectional configuration of the shaped product. Also disclosed are methods for forming such shaped product.
Claims8
A flexible abrasion and kink-resistant sleeve for protection of elongated articles, such as wires, cables, hoses, and conduits, said sleeve comprised of warp and fill ends having an open weave construction characterized by the absence of supporting material for said warp and fill ends, said sleeve having a substantially circular cross-sectional configuration and an ARP abrasion resistance of at least about 25,000 cycles, said sleeve comprising:
- at least one resilient filamentary fill end having a resilient set in a hoop configuration disposed in a plane extending substantially perpendicularly to the sleeve central axis;
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- at least one resilient filamentary warp end interwoven with said fill end, said warp end having a resilient set in a spiral configuration and having a pitch of from about 0.2 to about 0.3 turns per longitudinal sleeve inch.
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