Body armor
AssigneeMulti-Tech Corporation
InventorsEdward R. Barron, Abraham L. Lastnik
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Abstract
An armored garment, and method for testing an armored garment, wherein a ballistics testing portion is appendant thereto. The testing portion, formed integrally of the armored garment material, may be subjected to ballistic impact, whereupon projectile interception capabilities of the garment may be verified or determined. If desired, the testing portion may be removed without harming the integrity of the garment.
Claims20
An armored garment including means for verifying ballistic interception capabilities of the garment comprising:
- a garment body of ballistic intercepting material having a peripheral edge;
- a tab of said ballistic intercepting material appendant to, integral with, and continuously formed as an extension of the material of said body;
- means formed with the garment and intermediate the tab and the body for allowing severing of the tab from the body;
- said garment ballistic interception capabilities being verifiable by subjecting the tab to ballistic impact.
An improved armored garment having a body of ballistic interception material, the improvement comprising a tab of said ballistic intercepting material continuously formed, integral with and dependant from said body and means formed with the garment and intermediate the tab and the body for allowing severance of the tab from the body, the ballistic intercepting capability of said garment body being verifiable by ballistic impact on said tab.
A method for verifying the integrity of an armored garment comprising the steps of:
- providing a tab on the periphery of a garment having a body of ballistic intercepting material, said tab being integral with and continuously formed from the garment body material and dependant from said body;
- providing means formed with the garment intermediate the tab and the body for allowing severance of the tab from the body;
- subjecting said tab to ballistic impact;
- and
- observing whether said ballistic impact pierces said tab.
A method for verifying the integrity of an armored garment comprising the steps of:
- providing a tab on the periphery of a garment having a body of aramid fabric, said tab being integral with and continuously formed with the garment body fabric and dependent from said body;
- ballistically impacting said tab;
- observing whether said ballistic impact pierces said tab;
- and
- severing said tab from said garment body by cutting said material along a line of demarcation between said tab and said body.
A method for verifying the integrity of an armored garment comprising the steps of:
- providing a tab on the periphery of a garment having a body of ceramic composite material, said tab being integral with and continuously formed from the garment body material and dependent from said body;
- ballistically impacting said tab;
- observing whether said ballistic impact pierces said tab;
- and
- severing said tab from said garment body by breaking and cutting said material along a line of demarcation between said tab and said body.
An armored garment including means for verifying ballistic interception capabilities of the garment:
- a garment body of ballistic intercepting material having a peripheral edge;
- a tab of said ballistic intercepting material appendant to, integral with, and continuously formed as an extension of the material of said body and extending from said peripheral edge;
- said garment including plural rows of stitching along a line of demarcation between said body and said tab, said tab being severable from said body by cutting of said material between ones of said rows.
An armored garment including means for verifying ballistic interception capabilities of the garment comprising:
- a garment body of ballistic intercepting material having a peripheral edge;
- a tab of said ballistic intercepting material appendant to, integral with, and continuously formed as an extension of the material of said body;
- said garment ballistic interception capabilities being verifiable by subjecting the tab to ballistic impact;
- wherein said garment body and tab comprise a ceramic composite material and said ceramic composite material is weakened by notching said material along a line of demarcation between said tab and said body to facilitate removal of said tab from said body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.