Patent ID: 7858540

Claim:
A non-woven, ballistic resistant fabric comprising a plurality of fibers arranged in an array, said fibers being united and forming a fabric, said fibers having a tenacity of about 7 g/denier or more and a tensile modulus of about 150 g/denier or more; and said fibers having a polymeric binder material thereon which comprises a blend of a nitrile rubber polymer and a fluorine-containing material, said binder being resistant to dissolution, penetration and/or transpiration by water and resistant to dissolution, penetration and/or transpiration by one or more organic solvents, wherein the nitrile rubber polymer has an acrylonitrile content of from about 15 wt % to about 50 wt % and which polymeric binder material comprises from about 2% to about 50% by weight of the fabric.