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US 2018/0292181 A1Published application
Protective material
AssigneeComfortect LLC
InventorNeal Ira Mitnick
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AssigneeComfortect LLC
InventorNeal Ira Mitnick
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A material that is capable of stopping high-speed projectiles but yet is sufficiently flexible for use in various applications, such as to be used in footwear to protect a person's feet, especially the bottoms thereof is achieved by an enhanced ballistic material formed from interleaving layers of a ballistic material and layers of a gel matrix material that remains relatively soft and flexible. The ballistic material layer may be high tensile strength synthetic or polymeric fibers that are arranged in a mesh weave. Preferably the gel matrix material is capable of investing the ballistic material, e.g., by having the gel matrix material fill the interstices of the fibers, which may be achieved through the use of to heat and/or pressure. Furthermore, the combined material, i.e., the enhanced ballistic material, may be shaped, e.g., by molding.
A material adapted to stop high-speed projectiles, said material comprising a plurality of layers of woven high tensile strength fibers interleaved amongst a plurality of gel matrix material layers, said layers of high tensile fibers and gel matrix material being fused together, such that said material is flexible;
A material adapted to stop high-speed projectiles, said material comprising a plurality of layers of woven high tensile strength fibers interleaved with a plurality of gel layers, said interleaved layers forming said material being fused together as a result of the application of at least one of (i) heat and (ii) pressure such that said material is flexible and wherein the stopping power with respect to high-speed projectiles of the resulting multilayer fused structure of said material is greater with respect to high-speed projectiles than the stopping power of the number of layers of high tensile strength fibers in said material alone;
A material adapted to stop high-speed projectiles, said material comprising a plurality of weave layers each being interleaved by one or more gel layers, said layers being fused together;
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