VARIABLE DIAMETER WOVEN MEDICAL TUBE TEXTILES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

摘要

A textile greige (20) includes a plurality of woven medical tube textiles (30) in a series that share a set of warp yarns (22) and a first weft yarn (23). The medical tube textiles have different diameter segments such that less than all of the warp yarns are included in a small diameter segment of the medical tube textile. A diameter control weave (40) of a second weft yarn (24) is woven with segments (41) of the warp yarns (22) that are outside of the woven medical tube textiles. Later processing includes cutting the diameter control weave from the medical tube textile.