Patent ID: 9404715
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: F41H,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A ballistic collar for protection against bullets and shrapnel, comprising: a structure of body armor fabric with successive strips that run over into each other by folds of the fabric, each of the folds running substantially perpendicularly to a vertical axial direction of the collar; a matrix of preformed resilient resin, the body armor fabric located in the matrix, the matrix of preformed resilient resin having sufficient stiffness to cause the structure to stand up freely as a resiliently vertically compressible and expandable collar to completely surround a human's neck, whereby the collar will be expanded or compressed resiliently at the front and the back of the neck during head movements, increasing or decreasing fold angles between the strips at the folds; and wherein the body armor fabric ends at an upper edge with one of the successive strips, wherein the upper edge is configured to reach a chin of a human's head when the collar is expanded.