Patent ID: 7393572
Filing Date: 2008-07-01
Classification: B60K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Barrier structure placeable as a projectile-disabling, anti-liquid-leakage protective shield adjacent a vulnerable outside surface in a container designed to hold liquid of a certain nature, said structure comprising a first-type barrier layer formed as a sheet-like expanse of high-elastomeric material which is substantially fully self-healing via elastomeric behavior with regard to a piercing projectile wound, a second-type barrier layer disposed contactively adjacent one side of said first-type barrier layer as a sheet-like expanse including a body of substantially the same high-elastomeric material utilized for said first-type barrier layer, in which body there in contained a distribution of elemental, bead-like liquid-imbiber components which react, and expand three-dimensionally in relation, to any direct contact with liquid of the above-mentioned certain nature, and a third-type barrier layer disposed contactively adjacent that side of said second-type barrier layer which is opposite the side thereof in contact with said first-type barrier layer, with this third-type barrier layer being formed as a sheet-like expanse of substantially the same high-elastomeric material which is employed in said first-type and second-type barrier layers, said three barrier layers being dimensioned, with respective layer thicknesses, in a manner whereby said first-type and said third-type barrier layers each possesses a layer thickness which is substantially twice that of said second-type barrier layer.