Abstract: An armor component for protecting a body from a high speed projectile, such as a bullet from a handgun or a rifle, and which is designed for flattening and trapping the bullet. The armor may include in combination with the component, which serves as an outer component, an inner component used in a garment or similar article, for spreading the impact of the bullet striking the outer component. The outer component may include a pair of layers of flexible material at least the inner layer of which is high impact-resistant material, and has at least two juxtaposed layers of hard hemispherical beads (or half-spheres) 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. The volume occupied by the layers of beads is preferably substantially void of all other material. The beads of each layer may be arranged in a regular close-packed lattice pattern, i.e.

Abstract: An armor component for protecting a body from a high speed projectile, such as a bullet from a handgun or a rifle, and which is capable of flattening and trapping. The armor may include in combination with the component, which serves as an outer component, an inner component used in a garment or similar article, for spreading the impact of the bullet striking the outer component. The outer component, which is designed for flattening and trapping a bullet, may include a pair of layers of flexible material at least the inner layer of which it high impact-resistant material, and has 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. The volume occupied by the layers of beads is preferably substantially void of all other material. The beads of each layer may be arranged in a regular close-packed lattice pattern, i.e.

Abstract: Body armor of a relatively light and flexible character for protecting the wearer from a high speed projectile, such as a bullet from a handgun or a rifle, and which is capable of not only stopping passage of bullets, but reduce the damage caused by the impact resulting from the bullet trapped within the armor. The armor includes an outer component and an inner component, the outer component, which is designed for flattening and trapping a bullet, may provide the outer part of a garment. An inner component is used in the garment for spreading the impact of the bullet striking the outer part. The inner component may include at least two layers of flexible material having at least one layer of compressible material confined therebetween.