Patent ID: 6302343
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: D06B

Abstract:
A textile tube made in an injection-blow molding process and/or an injection evacuation process, the textile tube (1) comprising a wall (2), at least a portion of the wall (2) having a wave profile with ring-shaped inward bulges (3) and outward bulges (4) alternately arranged side by side in an axial direction, perforations (5) in the wall (2), and a plurality of strip-shaped areas (7) arranged at a circumference of the tube (1), the strip-shaped areas (7) extending continuously in an axial direction across adjacent inward bulges (3) and outward bulges (4) and having a rigidity that differs from a rigidity of radially adjacent wall areas of the tube (1), wherein the strip-shaped areas (7) substantially follow the wave profile of the wall (2) to at least substantially maintain an exterior shape of the wall (2).