Patent ID: 7665397

Claim:
A plural-overlapping-panel, plural-layer armoring system consisting of (a) an outer layer of elongate, side-by-side adjacent, laterally-interlocking, hardened-material armor panels having long axes substantially paralleling one another, and (b) a contacting and overlapping, but not bonded-to, inner layer of elongate, side-by-side adjacent, closed-cell foam panels having long axes substantially paralleling one another and disposed at angles relative to the long axes of the hardened-material armor panels, each hardened-material panel having a long dimension following its long axis and extending, in a overlapping sense, beyond the lateral margins of plural ones of said foam panels, and each foam panel having a long dimension following its long axis and extending, in a overlapping sense, beyond the lateral margins of plural ones of said hardened-material panels.