Joseph R Moon

US Patent:

20110167999, Jul 14, 2011

Filed:

Feb 8, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/028230

Inventors:

Allan Marcus Dellinger - Weddington NC, US
Joseph C. Moon - Greer SC, US
Steven F. Nielsen - Charlotte NC, US

International Classification:

F41H 5/02
F41H 5/04
B32B 5/26
A47C 19/00
D04H 13/00
D04H 1/08
B32B 5/06

US Classification:

89 3602, 442324, 428156, 428172, 442 1, 442270, 442 86, 29592, 89903, 89904, 89916, 89915

Abstract:

A protective armor product comprised of a panel which defines the interior and perimeter profile of the protective armor product. The panel is comprised of a stiff fibrous boardstock material with one or more layers of fibrous felted material of densified needlepunched construction. The fibrous felted material is comprised of a plurality of entangled polymeric fibers where at least a portion of the entangled polymeric fibers are melt fused together such that a plurality of fiber to fiber fusion bonding points are distributed within the fibrous felted material. The stiff fibrous boardstock material is formed into the panels to make the protective armor product.