Adhesive tape for jacketing elongate material such as especially cable looms and jacketing method

A method for jacketing an elongate material, the method comprising:

• providing an adhesive tape consisting of a textile carrier and a pressure-sensitive adhesive by applying the pressure-sensitive adhesive, in a form of a dried polymer dispersion, onto at least one side of the textile carrier, wherein the polymer is synthesized from:
• a) 5% to 25% by weight of ethylene,
• b) 30% to 69% by weight of alkylacrylic ester having C4 to C12 alkyl radicals,
• c) 20% to 55% by weight of vinyl acetate, and
• d) 0% to 10% by weight of other ethylenically unsaturated compounds,
• wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises between 30 and 50 parts by weight of a tackifier, based on the mass of the dried polymer dispersion, wherein the tackifier used is tackifier resins based on terpene phenols and/or rosin esters having a softening point of more than 80° C. and equal to or less than 99° C., in accordance with ASTM E28-99 (2009);
• and
• jacketing the elongate material with the adhesive tape by passing the adhesive tape in a helical line around the circumference of the elongate material such that the adhesive tape is bonded around the elongate material,
• wherein the adhesive tape has an unwinding force value in the range from about 3 to 9 N/cm, at a take-off speed of 30 m/min and a threshold flagging time value of at least 2001 minutes.