Metallic Ballistic Shield
OwnerBrett Cryerinventor
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Abstract
A hand-carried ballistic shield for use by civilians and law enforcement is disclosed, comprising a ballistic metal sheet, one or more handles or attached accessories, and a bolt buffer element between the ballistic sheet and the handles or accessories. The sheet may be further faced with ceramic or hardened steel in order to improve ballistic performance against hardened core or higher velocity bullets. As a preferred method of manufacture, any holes in the ballistic metal sheet are made solely through mechanical means such as drilling or punching.
Claims20
A hand-carried ballistic shield wherein the ballistic resistance is provided by a sheet of metal capable of withstanding, without any penetration of bullet material, a strike from a metallic bullet with a mass of at least 4 grams and an impact velocity of at least 330 meters per second.
A hand-carried ballistic shield wherein the ballistic resistance is provided by a sheet of steel containing between 0.05% and 0.55% carbon and processed such that it has a Brinell hardness between 350 and 650.
A hand-carried ballistic shield wherein the ballistic resistance is provided by a sheet of metal, in which any holes in said metal are made by non-thermal mechanical means such as drilling, reaming, punching, water jet cutting, or the like.
A hand-carried ballistic shield with one or more attached handles, in which at least one of the structural components of the handle is set apart from direct contact with the ballistic panel by at least one element with substantially greater compressibility than the primary handle material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.