Patent ID: 8397911

Claim:
A protective tubing assembly for packaging an elongated flexible protected object, the protective tubing assembly comprising: (a) a flexible tubular body that is capable of being coiled; (b) the tubular body having an asymmetrical cross section having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis, such asymmetrical cross-section comprising: (i) an elongate outside perimeter having a longer outside diameter along the longitudinal axis than its outside diameter along the transverse axis; (ii) an uniform inside diameter forming a bore along the length of the tubular body; (iii) a greater wall thickness along the longitudinal axis than its wall thickness along the transverse axis; (c) a male projecting member extending outwardly from the tubular body along the transverse axis and longitudinally along at least a substantial portion of the length of the tubular body; (d) a female concave-shaped receiving member extending outwardly from the tubular body along the transverse axis in a diametrically opposed position from the male projecting member, the female receiving member extending along a substantial portion of the tubular body; (e) wherein the female receiving member is positioned and proportioned to receive the male projecting member of another portion of the tubular body in a connected relation when the tubular body is coiled to retain the tubular body in its coiled, substantially planar arrangement; and (f) wherein the increased wall thickness of the tubular body along the longitudinal axis helps to reduce twisting of the tubular body when in its coiled arrangement to inhibit the elevation of one of the tubular coiled windings from the substantially planar coiled arrangement.