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US 4,830,245 AGranted
Backpack carrier and shield
OwnerSteven Y. Arakakiinventor
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Abstract
A backpack carrier has a lightweight metal frame embedded in KEVLAR. The KEVLAR is preferably wrapped to form a plurality of layers over the metal frame and the plural layers are held together by the epoxy portion of the KEVLAR which integrally binds laminations of woven carbon-based fabric. The carrier is shaped to provide a substantially bulletproof shield and may also be used as a rifle support by placing the barrel of a rifle in a V-shaped notch provided in an upper portion of the shield.
Claims17
A bulletproof backpack carrier and shield apparatus comprising:
- a lightweight skeletal frame having top, bottom, and side edges;
- a fiber and epoxy layered covering encasing the skeletal frame, wherein the covering is created by longitudinally wrapping a woven aromatic polyamide fiber fabric around the entire skeletal frame about the side edges forming a plurality of layers, and integrally binding layers with epoxy thereby providing curvilinear sides;
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- round top and bottom portions attached to the top and bottom edges of the frame and the wrapped fabric to form top and bottom portions of the carrier and shield, wherein the rounded top and bottom portions are made of chopped fiber and epoxy, and wherein the top and bottom portions are epoxied in place.
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