Patent ID: 8336112
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: F41H

Abstract:
1. A ballistic panel for a ballistic garment, the panel having an outline defined by an outer periphery; the panel including a plurality of subpacks overlying each other and secured to each other to form the panel, each one of the plurality of subpacks having substantially the same outline as the panel; a first one of the plurality of subpacks including a plurality of layers of ballistic material, each one of the layers in the first subpack having substantially the same outline as the first subpack; each one of the layers in the first subpack comprising at least first and second layer sections that individually each form only a portion of the outline of the first subpack and that overlap each other along at least one seam to form the layer which thereby has substantially the same outline as the first subpack, with an edge portion of the first layer section overlapping an edge portion of the second layer section; the panel including at least one stitching section that extends through the edge portions of all of the first and second layer sections in the subpack to form the first subpack; each one of the layers in the first subpack being discontinuous at the seam; wherein the plurality of subpacks also includes second and third subpacks in addition to the first subpack; the second subpack includes a plurality of continuous layers of ballistic material each having substantially the same outline as the second subpack and the third subpack includes a plurality of continuous layers of ballistic material each having substantially the same outline as the third subpack; wherein the second subpack has a different overlapping seam configuration from the first subpack, the third subpack has a different overlapping seam configuration from the first and second subpacks, and the plurality of subpacks includes at least a fourth subpack consisting of layers having substantially the same outline as the fourth subpack and being free of seams therein.