Armour component
CA 1233684 A · Owner: Groves, Trevor K. · Inventors: Groves, Trevor K.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Abstract From the Canadian patent
An armour component having a pair of layers of flexible high impact-resistant material with at least two juxtaposed layers of hard beads between the flexible layers. The beads in the adjacent layers are disposed with beads thereof inter-nested in the inter-bead spaces of each other, and the volume occupied by the layers of beads is substantially void of all other material. The beads of each layer may be arranged in a regular closepacked lattice pattern, i.e. a hexagonal or square so that each bead contacts its immediately adjacent neighbour beads. The component is designed for flattening and trapping a bullet and when used as a body armour provides the outer part of the garment. An inner …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents.
Why it's free to use
- Granted March 8, 1988. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 8, 2005.
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