The Bentley-Harris Manufacturing Company

Textilver, S.a.

Daniel G Caudron

Denis Van Wassenhove

Marie C Tresslar

Harry F Gladfelter

Hubert Andrieu

Michael A Ford

Pierre Monget

Wraparound sleeves formed by weaving, knitting or braiding for the protection of elongated articles, such as cables and hoses, are disclosed. The tubes are provided with closure means comprising multifilament, bulky yarn interlaced in the sleeving material and relatively unconfined along one of its marginal edges and of Velcro brand hook tape or similar hook type elements disposed along the other marginal edge.

Wraparound closure device

Wraparound sleeves formed by weaving, knitting or braiding for the protection of elongated articles, such as cables and hoses, are disclosed. The tubes are provided with closure means comprising multifilament, bulky yarn interlaced along one marginal edge of the sleeving material and of Velcro hook tape or other hook type elements disposed along the other marginal edge. In one embodiment of the invention, the interlaced multifilament, bulky yarn is disposed along both marginal edges with the Velcro tape fastened to one side of the bulky yarn on one marginal edge. Intermediate bands or rows of multifilament yarn may be provided so that to accommodate bundles of irregular cross-sectional tape. When the sleeving material is provided in rolls, the hooks on one side of the web interengage with the bulky multifilament yarn surface exposed on the other side of the web so that the web is held in rolled up form except when deliberately unwrapped.

A wrap-around sleeve, for enclosing and protecting an object such as a wire bundle, comprises a plain weft-knitted sheet formed from a filament having an elastic modulus such that the sheet has a sufficiently high transverse curl force (which is the force with which the sheet tends to curl transversely) that the sleeve remains wrapped around the object without separate closure means. Preferably the elastic modulus of the filament is at least 4000 N.mm.sup.-2.

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Crepy-en-Valois, France

Daniel G Caudron