Flexible body armor

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1992-08-24

1999-12-07

Jordan, Charles T.

Apparel

Guard or protector

Penetration resistant

428911, 89 3602, 89 3605, F41H 102, F41H 508

Patent

active

059961155

ABSTRACT:
An articulated body armor garment has a single layer of ceramic tiles adhesively attached to a flexible fragment-trapping blanket. A foam spacer layer behind the blanket at least partially contains deformation of the blanket in a ballistic attack. The blanket preferably includes at least forty plies of a ballistic cloth stitched together in a quilt pattern. Edge areas of the ceramic tiles are beveled so that edges of adjacent tiles overlap, thus enabling the array of tiles to present an essentially continuous unbroken surface to a projectile.

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