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US 6,892,392 B2Granted
Personal body armor
AssigneeLineWeight LLC
InventorsCaleb Clark Crye, Eric Owen Fehlberg, Gregg M. Thompson
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AssigneeLineWeight LLC
InventorsCaleb Clark Crye, Eric Owen Fehlberg, Gregg M. Thompson
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Personal body armor has hard armor plates on the front and back of the wearer which extend between a left vest section and a right vest section formed of soft armor. Foam pads are affixed to the interior of the vest sections which space the soft armor and the hard armor plates from the wearer's body and define multiple vertically extending air channels between the wearer and the hard armor plates and the interior of the soft armor The air channels promote ventilation of the armor and cooling of the wearer. For additional comfort, the soft armor is formed of multiple conventional layers of ballistic material and a {fraction (1/16)} inch molded plastic layer. The hard armor plates are configured to avoid interference with the usual range of motion of the wearer.
Body armor comprising:
An armored vest comprising a garment forming a vest constructed of ballistic armor, the vest having an interior surface, to which are mounted a plurality of inwardly extending pads which space the vest interior surface from a wearer, the pads defining at least two upwardly extending air channels, which extend from a lowermost extremity of the vest to an uppermost extremity, said channels extending through the vest, the pads covering less than all of the interior surface of the vest.
An armored vest comprising a garment forming a vest constructed of ballistic armor, the vest having an interior surface to which are mounted a plurality of pads, the pads defining at least two upwardly extending air channels, which extend from a lowermost extremity of the vest to an uppermost extremity, the pads covering less than all of the interior surface of the vest, wherein the vest is constructed of soft ballistic armor and hard armor of metal or ceramic construction, and wherein more than 50 percent of the hard armor is not backed by soft ballistic armor.
Body armor comprising:
An armored vest comprising a garment forming a vest constructed of ballistic armor, the vest having an interior surface, to which a pad system is mounted, the pad system extending inwardly from the vest interior surface to space the vest interior surface from a wearer, the pad system defining at least two upwardly extending air channels, which extend from a lowermost extremity of the vest to an uppermost extremity, said channels extending upwardly through the vest.
An armored vest comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.