Fabric for end fray resistance and protective sleeves formed therewith and methods of construction

1. A textile sleeve for protecting elongate members, comprising:

a substrate having filamentary members interlaced with one another, at least some of said filamentary members being monofilaments having a core of heat-settable polymeric material and an outer sheath of heat-fusible polymeric material, at least some of said outer sheaths being heat-fused to other ones of said filamentary members; and

further comprising a non-woven material heat-fused to said substrate by melted portions of said heat-fusible polymeric material and a reflective material heat-fused to said substrate by melted portions of said heat-fusible polymeric material, wherein said non-woven material forms an inner surface of said sleeve and said reflective material forms an outer surface of said sleeve.

2. The sleeve of claim 1 wherein said filamentary members are braided.

3. The sleeve of claim 1 wherein said cores are heat-set to form a biased shape of said sleeve.

4. The sleeve of claim 1 wherein said sleeve has a wall with opposite edges extending along a length of said sleeve, said cores being heat-set to bias said edges in overlapping relation to one another.

5. The sleeve of claim 4 further comprising a metal foil strip adhered to one of said edges and having release paper covering an adhesive for attachment of the other of said edges to form a circumferentially continuous metal foil outer layer.

6. The textile material of claim 5 further comprising a metal drain wire arranged in conductive electrical communication with said metal foil outer layer.