Patent ID: 11920266
Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL POWERTRAIN LLC
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 0:
1. A corrugated protective textile sleeve, comprising:
a flexible, tubular wall of woven warp yarns, extending lengthwise along a longitudinal axis between opposite ends of said tubular wall, and weft yarns, extending generally transversely to said warp yarns, at least some of said weft yarns being activatable weft yarn to shrink in length and at least some said weft yarns, adjacent said activatable weft yarn, being substantially non-activatable weft yarn, said substantially non-activatable weft yarn forming crests, having a first diameter, spaced axially from one another and said activatable weft yarns, upon being activated and shrunken, forming valleys, having a second diameter less than said first diameter, at least some of said valleys extending between said crests.