ARMORED VEST WITH POSITIVE BUOYANCY Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F41H1/02 B63C9/125 

FIELD: means of individual protection of human body against injury by bullets, fragments and blank weapon with simultaneous supporting of the human being on the water surface.

SUBSTANCE: the offered armor vest with a positive buoyancy has a textile portion located in the breast section having a volume margin, with an armor block and damping components positioned in it, and a sealed chamber filled with gas at an entry in water. The armor block is made composite, it consists of a movable and a fixed armor blocks coupled by a textile fastener, the sealed chamber is positioned between the armor blocks, and the textile portion volume margin is made before the fixed armor block.

EFFECT: produced an armored vest that can automatically turn over a man finding himself in water with the face up, not hampering the freedom of motions, aiming and conducting fire from small arms; prevented piercing of the armored vest at an impact with an affecting member tangentially on the side of the back.

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