Patent ID: 7132028

Claim:
A method of wrapping elongate material with a sheath, said method comprising the following steps: a) providing a sheath comprising first and second single-sided adhesive tapes each comprising an adhesive side and a non-adhesive side, the tapes in a running direction each being laminated to one another on an adhesive side thereof with an offset; b) aligning the first adhesive tape of the sheath relative to the material to be wrapped such that a free edge of the first adhesive tape is parallel to a center axis of the material to be wrapped, and such that the adhesive side of the first adhesive tape is farther way from the material than the non-adhesive side of the first adhesive tape; c) guiding the first adhesive tape by the thus aligned free edge onto the material; d) winding the first adhesive tape around the material so that the first adhesive tape of the sheath essentially completely envelops the material; e) winding the second adhesive tape around the material in such a way that the adhesive side of the second adhesive tape bonds to the adhesive side of the first adhesive tape, so that the material is always surrounded by at least two plies of adhesive tape.