Patent ID: 7216576
Filing Date: 2007-05-15
Classification: F41H

Abstract:
1. An armor panel for defeating a projectile strike comprising a substantially planar core structure having spaced, generally parallel-planar strike and opposite faces, and elongate circumsurrounding edge structure which extends generally normally between and relative to said faces, and stranded core-wrap structure fully enveloping said core structure, and including a pair of cooperative wrap components, each having a preferential, load-transmitting grain direction, and each including plural, elongate, tension-load-bearing strands which generally parallel the wrap component's grain direction, each tension-load-bearing strand in each wrap component including first portions extending across, and generally in the respective planes of, said strike and opposite faces, and second portions extending generally normally relative to said faces, and across a pair of spaced locations in said edge structure, said first portions in the tension-load-bearing strands in each of said wrap components extending adjacent said core-structure faces at angles relative to the first portions in the tension-load-bearing strands in the other wrap component, and said second portions in all tension-load-bearing strands in said wrap structure extending generally parallel to one another in a distribution which extends substantially completely about the length of said edge structure.