Wrappable textile sleeve having supplemental lace closure and method of construction thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10358765-B2
Application number	US-201414204294-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2014
Priority date	Mar 11, 2013
Publication date	Jul 23, 2019
Grant date	Jul 23, 2019

Abstract

A wrappable textile sleeve with closure system and method of construction is provided. The sleeve has a wall of interlaced yarn with opposite edges extending in a lengthwise direction along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends. The opposite edges are wrappable into overlapping relation with one another to form a tubular cavity. The wall has a first set of closed loops positioned adjacent one of the opposite edges and a second set of closed loops positioned adjacent the other of the opposite edges. At least one flexible lace is disposed through the closed loops in a zig-zag pattern, thereby extending back-and-forth between the first set of loops and the second set of loops. The flexible lace is slidable through the plurality of loops to facilitate drawing and maintaining the opposite edges in overlapping relation with one another.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wrappable textile elongate wire harness sleeve for protecting the elongate wire harness, comprising:
a wall of interlaced yarn having opposite edges extending in a lengthwise direction along a longitudinal axis of the sleeve between opposite ends, said interlaced yarn being woven with warp yarns extending in said lengthwise direction and weft yarn extending generally transversely to said lengthwise direction, said opposite edges being wrappable into overlapping one another to form an inner tubular cavity, said wall having a plurality of closed loops extending along the length of said wall, said plurality of closed loops providing a first set of closed loops positioned adjacent one of said opposite edges and a second set of closed loops positioned adjacent the other of said opposite edges;
at least one flexible lace extending through said first and second sets of closed loops in zig-zag relation from said first set of closed loops to said second set of closed loops, wherein said at least one flexible lace facilitates drawing the opposite edges into overlapping relation with one another and to maintain the wall in a closed state; and
wherein said first and second sets of closed loops are formed from at least some of said warp yarns.

2. The wrappable textile elongate wire harness sleeve of claim 1 wherein at least some of said weft yarn is heat-set to bias said opposite edges into overlapping relation with one another.

3. The wrappable textile elongate wire harness sleeve of claim 1 wherein said first set of closed loops and said second set of closed loops are circumferentially aligned with one another.

4. The wrappable textile elongate wire harness sleeve of claim 1 wherein said at least one flexible lace includes a pair of flexible laces, one of said flexible laces being fixed to one of the closed loops in said first set of closed loops and the other of said flexible laces being fixed to one of the closed loops in said second set of closed loops.

Assignees

• Fed Mogul Powertrain Inc
• Fed Mogul Powertrain Llc

Inventors

• Laurent Benoit

Classifications

• Y10T442/30

  Woven fabric [i.e., woven strand or strip material] · CPC title

• D03D13/00

  Woven fabrics characterised by the special disposition of the warp or weft threads, e.g. with curved weft threads, with discontinuous warp threads, with diagonal warp or weft · CPC title

• D10B2403/0311

  Small thickness fabric, e.g. ribbons, tapes or straps · CPC title

• Y10T442/40

  Knit fabric [i.e., knit strand or strip material] · CPC title

• H02G3/0481

  with a circular cross-section (H02G3/0468, H02G3/0475 take precedence) · CPC title