IMPACT RESISTANT, SHRINKABLE KNITTED TUBULAR SLEEVE AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION THEREOF

A knitted sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve includes an elongate, knitted wall having a circumferentially continuous, tubular outer periphery extending along a central axis between opposite open ends. The wall includes knit...

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Hauptverfasser: GAO, Tianqi, KHOSROSHAHI, Ali, ZHANG, Zhong Huai, LUDY, Linwood, KRAUSER, Leigh
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A knitted sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve includes an elongate, knitted wall having a circumferentially continuous, tubular outer periphery extending along a central axis between opposite open ends. The wall includes knitted shrinkable yarn and knitted non-shrinkable yarn. The shrinkable yarn provides the wall with an ability to be radially constricted from a first, diametrically enlarged state to a second, diametrically shrunken state, wherein said shrinkable yarn and said non-shrinkable yarn are knit in alternating groups of courses with one another.