Patent ID: 6131193
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: A41D,F41H

Abstract:
A puncture resistant garment, comprising:a plurality of flexible layers of woven sheets positioned to overlie one another forming a puncture resistant panel, in which a less than a total number of the plurality of sheets are secured together to form a sub-panel within said puncture resistant panel with said plurality of woven sheets being 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 said direction and in which said aramid fibers have at least one of the following characteristics of: a) 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, b) said aramid fibers have a break elongation of greater than 3 percent and c) said aramid fibers provide greater than 23.8 grams per denier tenacity preventing penetration of said puncture resistant panel with a sharp object; anda ballistic resistant panel constructed of at least one of: a) woven fiber having less than 60 warp ends and less than 60 fill ends per inch of the woven fiber and in which the woven fiber is constructed of filaments having greater than 90,000,000 filament crossovers per square inch of said ballistic resistant panel, and b) composite material, positioned to overlie said puncture resistant panel to prevent penetration of a ballistic missile through said garment.