Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F41—WEAPONS
  • F41H—ARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
  • F41H1/00—Personal protection gear
  • F41H1/02—Armoured or projectile- or missile-resistant garments; Composite protection fabrics

Definitions

• the invention relates to a modular body armor vest, a Schulter Scheme- protective element therefor and a fastener for a Schulter Scheme- protective element according to the preamble of claim 1, 11 and 13, respectively.
• Such body vests for example, worn by police and soldiers to protect the upper body in particular against blows, punches, fragments and fragments in explosions and / or projectiles from firearms.
• a modular construction comprising at least the west front part and the rear part of the vest, which can be connected to one another by means of two shoulder straps and, if appropriate, lateral connecting straps, initially makes it possible to individually adapt the body armor to the respective wearer.
• the degree of overlap of the lateral connection tabs attached to one vest part can be selected with the other vest part depending on the hip and chest circumference to set the body armor vest narrow or wide.
• the shoulder straps can be adjusted short or long according to the body size, so that the vest parts are always at the optimum height.
• body vests do not have to be purchased and kept in all clothing sizes.
• additional adjustment options are given within a clothing size.
• a modular design allows the variable use of protective elements depending on the application scenario.
• impact and puncture protection elements can be used while, for example, in a hostage situation ballistic protective elements are used to protect against bullets from firearms. Ballistic protective elements can also be combined with impact and / or puncture protection elements. Shoulder protector elements, side protectors, crotch protectors, collar and / or larynx, etc. may be attached to the body armor vest in addition to chest and back protectors depending on the application scenario.
• the placement of protective elements is thus individually and in consideration of the respective threat scenario selectable, in particular depending on the nature and the direction of the threat to be expected, eg in a police scenario from the front and an attack scenario for soldiers also from above and behind.
• ballistic protective elements require an overlap in order to provide optimum protection even with edge or oblique bombardment. Therefore, e.g. a ballistic shoulder area protection element overlap with a ballistic chest area protection element.
• the required overlap can be up to 5cm.
• the known body vests are disadvantageous in terms of adaptability. This also applies to body vests, in which shoulder area protection elements are attached via eyelets or the like to always the same place a shoulder strap. Finally, these body vests lack the gapless overlap required for optimal ballistic, impact and / or puncture protection.
• the invention is therefore an object of the invention to provide a modular body armor, a shoulder region protection element and a fastener for a shoulder region protection element according to the preamble of claim 1, 11 and 13, in which freedom of movement and adaptability in interchangeability of the shoulder region protection element and excellent safety are improved.
• a modular body armor vest having a vest front, a vest back, a shoulder strap preferably fully bridging the vest front and back
• the shoulder region protection member comprises a fastener for releasable surface attachment to a portion of a fastener region extending along the shoulder strap.
• the attachment portion may be inside, ie facing the body, and / or outside, ie facing away from the body, may be provided.
• the attachment area extends in all embodiments along the shoulder belt, i. in the direction of its fixed end to its free end, over the entire length of the shoulder strap or in a portion thereof, on the side facing the body and / or facing away, and is at least so long that the shoulder region protection element on at least two different Positions along the shoulder strap can be attached flat.
• the width of the attachment area expediently corresponds to the width of the shoulder belt.
• the fastener may have a shoulder engaging the protective element or a portion thereof engaging engagement.
• the fastener acts as an adapter, ie it is on the one hand to encompass a shoulder region protection member or a portion thereof and on the other hand formed for attachment to the attachment portion.
• Such an adapter can be used for a variety of differently shaped shoulder area protection elements.
• the embodiment of the fastener as a bag, in which the shoulder region protective element or a portion thereof can be used.
• a bag is easy to handle and keeps the shoulder area protection element safe.
• the fastener is fixedly connected to the shoulder region protection member, e.g. glued in the form of a Velcro or Flauschteils on the shoulder region protection element, or the fastener is flared at least in one section. This eliminates the need to form a separate fastener, vorzuhalten and each to connect to the shoulder area protection element.
• the fastening element comprises a Velcro or Velcro part and the attachment area a Velcro or Velcro part.
• Velcro and Velcro parts are known to be particularly easy to handle, inexpensive to produce and durable fasteners.
• the fastener may be designed to be flexible, which is of independent inventive importance.
• the fastening element can have segments.
• the segments which are each formed as Velcro part and / or Velcro, for example, are as far as possible spaced from each other, but may also be adjacent and / or formed by dividing seams. In the area of the segment boundaries or spacings, a high flexibility results, in particular with regard to bending and bending.
• the fastener thus adapts optimally to the movement of the person wearing the body armor. In particular, a movement of the arms forward and / or o- ben a comparatively low resistance opposite.
• the mobility is particularly optimized when the segments are triangular.
• the attachment area can also be divided into segments. Particularly advantageous is a combination of triangular segments has been found on the fastener and rectangular segments on the attachment area. As a result, in addition to the mobility, it is also ensured that the respective segments always overlap sufficiently for optimum attachment to one another.
• the shoulder strap is fixedly connected at one end to a vest part and has at its free end an envelope flap which is foldable towards the waist part and at the west part there is provided a fastening flap extending towards the free end of the shoulder strap extends substantially parallel thereto. In this way, an optimal attachment of the shoulder region protection element can be achieved.
• this embodiment of the shoulder strap makes it possible to sandwich the fastening element between the shoulder belt on the one hand and the turn-up and fastening strap on the other hand and to hold it particularly securely both on its upper side (away from the body) and on its lower side (facing the body).
• a shoulder region protection element is provided, to which a fastening element for detachable surface fastening to a portion of a fastening strip extending along a shoulder strap of a body protection vest is attached.
• area on the body on and / or on the surface facing away from the body is fixedly mounted, for example in the form of a Beflauschung or a glued Velcro or Flauschteils a Velcro connection.
• Such a Schulter Scheme- protective element is easy to handle and without adapter directly to a suitable body for the size of the wearer body of the body armor vest.
• the fastening element is a Velcro or Velcro part glued to the shoulder region protective element.
• Velcro and Velcro parts are known to be particularly easy to handle, inexpensive to produce and durable fasteners.
• a fastener for a shoulder protector for a modular body armor vest is provided.
• the fastening element has a holding engagement for at least partially encompassing the shoulder region protection element.
• the fastening element acts as an adapter between on the one hand the protective vest and on the other hand a certain shoulder area protection element or a group of shoulder area protection elements, which it can hold around at least in sections.
• the embodiment of the fastener as a bag, in which the shoulder region protective element or a portion thereof can be used.
• a bag is easy to handle and keeps the shoulder area protection element safe.
• the fastening element may have a Velcro or Velcro part for an easy-to-handle and secure Velcro attachment to a fastening region of a shoulder strap.
• Fig. 1a schematically illustrates the outside of a vest front part of a body armor vest.
• Fig. 1b schematically illustrates the inside of a vest back of a body armor vest.
• FIG. 1 c illustrates the vest back of Fig. 1b from the outside.
• FIGS. 2a, b schematically illustrate a shoulder area protection element in plan view, respectively.
• Fig. 3a, c each illustrate a fastener in plan view, Fig. 3b also in side view.
• Fig. 4 illustrates a shoulder region protection element attached to a shoulder belt.
• Fig. 5a, b illustrate the body armor with inserted shoulder area protection element for different body sizes in section.
• FIGS. 6 a to h each illustrate different attachment variants of a shoulder region fastening element on a body armor vest in section.
• FIG. 1 The exemplary illustrated schematically in Figure 1 modular body armor um- almost a vest front part 1 and a Western back part 2, which are klettverbindbar with one another here on the west back part 2 provided shoulder straps 3 and optionally existing lateral connecting straps 4.
• An impact or puncture protection element may comprise a metal, plastic and / or textile element, which can withstand a predetermined impact impulse and distribute the associated energy over a large area.
• a ballistic protective element is used for a Kevlar material which withstands the firing of a bullet from a firearm.
• a metal element and a Kevlar material may be appropriately doubled with the interposition of a spacer knit to ensure combined protection against impact and impact and / or puncture. Any protective elements can be used here.
• shoulder strap extensions 5 are provided into which the protective element optionally extends and which each have a shoulder strap attachment surface 6, e.g. a Velcro or Velcro part have.
• Adjacent to each shoulder strap attachment surface 6 is in each case a shoulder strap fastening strap 7, which likewise may have a hook-and-loop or velcro part, in particular by means of a fastening seam 8 on the vest front part 1.
• Each of the shoulder strap attachment tabs 7 is foldable toward the respective shoulder strap attachment 5. In the folded-down position, each of the shoulder strap attachment tabs 7 is parallel to the respectively associated shoulder strap attachment surface 6.
• the shoulder strap attachment tab 7 and the shoulder strap attachment surface 6 can be made the same size.
• the vest back 2 shown in Fig. 1b with the inside comprises two shoulder straps 3, which are illustrated here by way of example each with an envelope flap 9 at their free ends.
• the envelope tabs 9 have a Velcro or Velcro part and can be folded in the direction of the inside of the west back part 2.
• the shoulder straps 3 may be configured as illustrated in FIG. 1c.
• the cover tabs 9 may also have on the outside a Velcro or Velcro. Adjacent to the envelope flaps 9 attachment surfaces 10 may be provided as Velcro or Fluschchteile.
• the west back part 2 may have on its outside another fastening u ⁇ gsf laugh 11 in the form of Velcro or Velcro parts for the lateral connecting straps 4 of the western front part 1 have.
• ßefest Trent 13 may each have a mounting portion 14 along the respective shoulder belt 3, which is here in the applied state of the body armor inside, so facing the body, provided, but in further embodiments outside, so facing away from the body, and in particular may be provided both inside and outside.
• the attachment region 14 may also be shorter than shown, ie, spaced apart from the respective flap 9 and / or fastening strap 13.
• Velcro or Velcro parts are provided, which can be segmented and in particular, as shown, composed of spaced-apart rectangular segments 15.
• a shoulder region protection element 16, 16 ', cf. 2 by means of a fastening element 17, 17 ', 17 ", see Fig. 3, flatly attached to the shoulder straps 3, see Fig. 4, and then the vest front part 1 with the west back part 2 by Velcro the shoulder straps 3, see Fig. 5, and the lateral connection tabs 4 connected.
• Shoulder area protection elements 16, 16 'according to the invention are illustrated by way of example in FIG. 2.
• Other, in particular anatomically optimized shapes can be used.
• the shoulder area protection element 16, cf. Fig. 2a is a total of elongated with rounded corners here, where it is expedient not wider than the shoulder straps 3. It can be designed as a one-piece metal, fabric and / or plastic part. Optionally, it includes a plurality of hingedly interconnected metal or plastic parts, which may also be overlapping.
• the protective member 16 may also comprise or consist of a Kevlar part or the like for ballistic protection.
• the illustrated protective element 16 serves to protect the scapula and / or collarbone. As with the example of the shoulder region protection element 16 ', cf. Fig. 2b, illustrated can be protected next to the shoulder and the upper arm.
• the shoulder area protection element 16 ' may additionally comprise or be made exclusively of a Kevlar part or another ballistic protection.
• shoulder region protection element Other shapes and configurations of the shoulder region protection element are conceivable depending on the purpose. Thus, e.g. also be provided a part for the protection of the larynx. Also, a collar protection may be provided. It is essential in any case a section which can be fixed in the mounted state on the mounting portion 14.
• the shoulder area protection member 16 may e.g. completely in a designed as a flat pocket with a zipper 19 fastener 17, see. Fig. 3a, are used.
• the fastening element 17 has on one or both sides of a particular segmented Velcro and / or Velcro 20, here for example in the form of triangles, which may be spaced apart as shown, or may adjoin one another.
• the shoulder area protection element 16 ' only the elongate portion, on which the part 18 is articulated, is inserted into the fastening element 17 formed as a pocket.
• the zipper 19 is then closed only so far that the part 18 is held firmly. If necessary, the zipper 19 can branch here. be shared, ie have a closing from left to right and closing from right to left closing part, between which the part 18 extends out of the pocket.
• any other element can be used with which the inserted shoulder region protection element 16, 16 'can be secured against falling out, twisting and / or slipping.
• the fastener does not have to be bag-shaped. Rather, any configuration suitable for holding the shoulder region protection element is sufficient, provided that it can be fastened flat on the shoulder strap 13.
• a fastening element 17 ', cf. 3b, 16 ' which holds the shoulder region protection element 16, 16' or a portion thereof, and has attachment means such as by hatching example indicated Velcro and / or Velcro parts for surface releasable attachment to the shoulder belt 3.
• the fastening element 17 " is firmly connected to the shoulder region protection element 16, 16 '.This can be achieved by adhering a velcro or Velcro part, possibly segmented, to a corresponding section of the shoulder region -Sputzelements 16, 16 'or by Beflauschen this section.
• the shoulder region protection element 16 or 16' is detachably attached to the shoulder belt 3 in a detachable manner, namely on a suitable arbitrary section of the fastening region.
• the shoulder region protection element 16, 16 ' are fixed to a section 21 adjacent to the flap flap 9 of the fastening region 14, cf. Fig. 5a.
• This position corresponds to the longest possible adjustment of the shoulder strap 3 for tall persons, in which the shoulder area protection element 16, 16 'is aligned exactly centered over the shoulder of the user of the body armor vest.
• the shoulder region protection element 16 can be fixed even for small persons, namely by being fixed to a portion 22 adjacent to the fastening tab 13, cf. Fig. 5b.
• the area between the sections 21, 22 is available for individual adaptation between the extremes.
• FIG. 5 sandwich-like attachment of the shoulder strap 3 on the vest front part 1 between the shoulder strap shoulder 5 and the Schultergurt- fastening tab 7 is purely exemplary.
• the shoulder strap fastening strap 7 is optional.
• the shoulder belt 3 can be fixed to the inside of the shoulder belt attachment 5.
• Fig. 6 shows by way of example and not exhaustively other possible embodiments of the mutual attachment, wherein the role between the west front part 1 and the back part 2 is arbitrarily exchangeable and wherein the shoulder area protection element 16, which is only for illustration in a particular embodiment the fastening element 17 is shown, can be configured and attached as desired within the meaning of the invention.
• Fig. 6a an embodiment is illustrated, in which the flap flap 9 is designed so long that it overlaps the entire fastening region 14. On the mounting strap 13 can be omitted here.
• a Velcro connection to a surface 23 on the west back part 2 is provided at the free end of the envelope flap 9.
• FIG. 6 b illustrates a shoulder area protection element 16 placed on the outside of the shoulder strap 3.
• Fig. 6c illustrates a shoulder region protection member 16 sandwiched between a shoulder belt 3 of the vest back 2 and a shoulder belt 3 'of the vest front 1.
• the shoulder strap attachment tab 7 is designed so long that it extends beyond the mounting portion 14 also and is klettverbindbar with the west back part 2.
• the shoulder region protection element 17 is arranged on the outside of the shoulder belt 3.
• the shoulder belt 3 is divided into a section 3 on the vest front 1 and a section 5 on the vest back 2.
• the two sections 3, 5 overlap each other.
• This embodiment illustrates that the length of the shoulder strap 3 can also be selected to be short if the length of the shoulder strap shoulder 5 is selected to be correspondingly long, so that both can fully bridge the vest front part 1 and the vest back part 2 with overlap.
• shoulder belt 3 is divided, a part being formed by the shoulder belt attachment 5, which thus becomes the shoulder belt.
• the vest front 1 and the vest back 2 are held together in this embodiment by the shoulder area protection element 16, which may be held in a pocket 17, directly or as shown.
• the shoulder area protection element 16 whether illustrated here with a fastening element 17 or directly on the shoulder belt 3, whether shown in two parts or in one piece, may also be fastened inside, as shown here without straps 9, 13 or with.
• the Velcro and Flauschchteile are expediently arranged in all embodiments that always a Velcro connection is possible, ie that a Klettteilabêt a Flauschteilabêt is opposite. Instead of a Velcro connection, other detachable planar connections can be used.
• the shoulder straps 3 can also be firmly connected to the vest front part 1 to be releasably connected to the vest back 2 via Velcro connections or the like.

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