Appeal No. 1997-0529 Page 16
Application No. 08/573,884
APPENDIX
18. A fabric resistant to penetration by foreign objects
such as bullets, flechettes, etc. comprising:
a plurality of layers of woven fabric adjacent and in
contact with each other, said woven fabric having warp and
weft yarns of high tenacity continuous filaments interwoven
together and a polymeric film coated on the filaments of said
warp and weft yarns, said coated filaments having a
coefficient of friction higher than the coefficient of
friction of the high tenacity filaments with substantially no
filament-to-filament bonding of the coated filaments of the
warp and weft yarns.
19. The fabric of Claim 18 wherein said high tenacity
filaments are aramid.
20. A fabric according to Claim 18 wherein said high
tenacity filament is poly(para-phenylene terephthalamide).
21. A fabric according to Claim 18 wherein said
polymeric film coated on the filaments has a thickness less
than about 2 microns.
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