Patent ID: 6154880
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: A41D,F41H

Abstract:
A puncture resistant garment, comprising:a plurality of flexible layers of woven sheets positioned to overlie one another, in which said plurality of woven sheets are constructed of aramid fibers in which said woven sheets have a weave of at least 60 aramid fibers per inch in a direction and at least 60 aramid fibers per inch in another direction transverse to the direction and in which said aramid fibers are constructed of filaments which provide from 50,000,000 up to 90,000,000 filament crossovers per square inch in said plurality of woven sheets; andmeans for securing said plurality of layers of woven sheets together to form a panel which prevents puncture penetration from a sharp object through said panel in which said panel includes at least two sub-panels in which separate spaced apart lines of stitches secure a lesser number than the total number of the plurality of woven sheets together to form each sub-panel and in which each of the separate lines of stitches of a first sub-panel are spaced apart and do not overlie the lines of stitches of a second sub-panel with the sub-panels being positioned to overlie one another.