US Patent 9347158 Elongate self-closing sleeve for protecting elongate members

The present invention concerns an elongate self-closing sleeve for protecting elongated members, said sleeve having internal and external opposite faces. Said sleeve comprises a warp knitted textile 1 having first 2 and second 3 longitudinal opposite free edges biased toward each other in order to define an internal space wherein said elongate members could be placed therein. Said warp knitted textile 1 comprises a first monofilament yarn 4 and a second monofilament yarn 5 both forming laying-in stitches extending in the same direction between said free edges on at least two wales 6 and a third yarn 12 forming chain stitches or tricot stitches, said first 4 and second 5 yarns being in plastic material(s).