Abstract: A low profile fold protective textile sleeve for bundling elongate members has longitudinally and laterally interlaced monofilament warp and fill yarns. Flat profile monofilaments are employed in the warp direction and round monofilaments in the fill direction. The flat monofilaments are considerably wider than they are thick, and provide the sleeve with flexibility and bending out of the plane of the sleeve. The round monofilaments may be sized so that their diameter is about the same as the thickness of the flat monofilaments, and they can be bundled together so that the effective width of each bundle approximates the width of the flat monofilament yarns with which they are intertwined. The round monofilaments are heat-set along at least a portion of their length to provide biased living hinge regions of the sleeve, while also lending strength and stiffness to the sleeve along the fill direction.

Abstract: A sleeve for protecting and supporting elongated items is disclosed. The sleeve has a tubular portion defining an interior space adapted to receive the elongated items and a flange or web portion providing an attachment region for accommodating fasteners for attaching the sleeve to a support structure. The sleeve is formed of filamentary members woven, braided or knitted together which allows the tubular and web or flange portions to be integrally formed. Thermoplastic monofilaments used for the filamentary members allow the sleeve to be resiliently biased into a closed configuration which is manually manipulable to provide access to the interior space. Various forms of fasteners are used to attach the sleeve to the support structure, with hook and loop systems being particularly advantageous.

Abstract: A woven fabric sleeve for protecting and covering elongated substrates is made up of circumferentially and longitudinally extending interlaced fill and warp members, the fill members forming circumferentially extending alternating bands of relative flexibility separating bands of inflexibility. The fill members may be comprised of monofilament or multifilament yarns of alternating large and small diameters and may include wire, especially resilient wire, heat settable materials, including polyester served wire and DREF yarns having resiliently settable cores. The fill members may be held in relation to one another utilizing Leno and mock Leno weaving.