HIGH TEMPERATURE RESISTANT WEFT KNIT TEXTILE SLEEVE AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION THEREOF
A high temperature resistant textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The textile sleeve has a flexible, tubular knit wall of thermoplastic yarns. The yarns are tightly knit with weft knit stitches extending along a circumferential direction about the tubular knit wall to provide a substantially smooth inner surface and a substantially smooth outer surface. The yarns are knit in a tricot stitch pattern, wherein the tricot knit stitches extend along a circumferentially direction of the sleeve wall.
1 . A method of constructing a protective textile sleeve, comprising:
providing thermoplastic filaments; and
weft knitting a tubular wall from the thermoplastic filaments with tricot stitches.
2 . The method of claim 1 further including providing the thermoplastic filaments from the group consisting of polyesters and polyamides.
3 . The method of claim 1 further including performing the weft knitting on a circular weft knitting machine.
4 . The method of claim 1 further including knitting the tubular wall as a circumferentially continuous, seamless wall.
5 . The method of claim 1 further including weft knitting the tubular wall entirely with tricot stitches.