Method to make a ballistic material
AssigneeHisco, Inc.
InventorsRobert Scott Stover, Paul Merriman
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Abstract
A method for making a ballistic material resistant to penetration from bullet, shrapnel, debris, and other lethal missiles that includes dying a flexible conformable low surface energy fabric having a first thickness; coating a surface of the dyed fabric with an acrylic based adhesive; covering the coated fabric with a liner; cutting the coated lined fabric; printing the cut lined fabric with a fast drying acrylic ink forming a ballistic material having a second thickness up to 300% larger than the first thickness which is tough, resistant to bullet penetration from a range of six feet from the fabric; and cutting the ballistic material into a desired shape.
Claims22
A method for making a ballistic material covering resistant to penetration from bullets, shrapnel, debris, and other lethal missiles, comprising:
- dying a flexible conformable low surface energy fabric having a first thickness of at least three mils forming a dyed fabric, wherein the flexible conformable low surface energy fabric is a ballistic material;
- coating a surface of the dyed fabric with an acrylic based adhesive forming a coated fabric, wherein the acrylic base adhesive is cold when applied to the dyed fabric;
- covering the coated fabric with a liner forming a coated lined fabric;
- cutting the coated lined fabric into at least one desired size forming a cut lined fabric;
- printing the cut lined fabric with a fast drying acrylic ink forming the ballistic material covering, wherein the liner is configured to be removed from the ballistic material covering to allow the ballistic material covering to be attached to a base substrate;
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- cutting the ballistic material covering into a desired shape.
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