Abstract: A safety pouch for high pressure gas cylinders includes an envelope of gas permeable ballistic fabric defining a cavity between walls of the envelope. The walls of the envelope are fastened together by discrete fasteners so as to form a gas escape passageway between the walls and the discrete fasteners. Thus gas escaping from a ruptured high pressure gas container mounted in the cavity passes along the passageway, so as to exit the envelope from between ends of the walls, and through the ballistic fabric of the walls.

Abstract: Soft body armor has a ballistic panel having an interleaved construction of a generally vertically oriented plurality of layers of interleaved sheets or woven fiber cloth and sheets of cross plied unidirectional tape adjacently interleaved in an interleave ratio of plies of cross plied unidirectional tape to plies of woven fiber cloth within each layer of the plurality of layers, the plurality of layers forming a non-quilted array between a front face of the ballistic panel and a back face of the ballistic panel, wherein the interleave ratio of plies of cross plied unidirectional tape to plies of woven fiber cloth within each layer of the plurality of layers is between 1:1 and 4:4, and wherein the total number of the plies of cross plied unidirectional tape is equal to or greater than the total number of the plies of woven fiber cloth within the plurality of layers.

Abstract: Soft body armour has a ballistic panel having an interleaved construction of a generally vertically oriented plurality of layers of interleaved sheets of aramid fibre cloth and sheets of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix adjacently interleaved in an interleave ratio of plies of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix to plies of aramid fibre cloth within each layer of the plurality of layers, the plurality of layers forming a non-quilted array between a front face of the ballistic panel and a back face of the ballistic panel, wherein the interleave ratio of plies of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix to plies of aramid fibre cloth within each layer of the plurality of layers is between 1:1 and 4:4, and wherein the total number of the plies of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix is equal to or greater than the total number of the plies of aramid fibre cloth within the p