Ballistic resistant fabric articles
AssigneeAllied-Signal Inc.
InventorGary A. Harpell
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Abstract
A flexible article of manufacture especially suitable for use as a ballistic resistant body armor which comprises a flexible substrate layer having a plurality of planar non-metallic bodies mechanically affixed to a surface thereof.
Claims51
A flexible penetration resistant article of manufacture comprising at least one substrate layer comprising a plurality of rigid penetration resistant non-metallic planar bodies affixed to a surface thereof such that said article has at least three continuous or semi-continuous seams in which the seam directions intersect at an angle, wherein said article is capable of flexing along said seams.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.