BULLET-PROOF CHAUSSES Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC F41H1/02 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: bullet-proof chausses are made in the form of textile pockets with armour inserts arranged in them in the form of chutes and containing dampers and fastening and connecting elements; at that, damper of shield of lower leg is made of strip throughout the height of rigid armour insert; strips are arranged in corrugations of rectangular section, which are formed with solid cloth stitched to the pocket throughout its surface area, to which fixing elements in the form of wings are stitched in their turn on sides. Connecting elements are made in the form of buckles with textile fasteners, and damper of shield of footstep is arranged under soft armour insert at equal distance relative to the latter, in its pocket, to the rounded front and side edges of which there stitched is cover of fixing element of footstep shield, which is made from flexible plastic strip, the connecting element of which is made of cord or metal rope. Hinge of shields is made of front and rear walls restricted from below with outer wall of pocket of footstep shield and from above with lower inner edge of pocket of lower leg shield, which are stitched along restriction lines and attached to pocket of lower leg shield, and at distance from rear edge of footstep shield, which does not exceed the thickness of lower leg shield, with pocket of footstep shield; at that, rear wall of hinge is made of corrugations of damper of lower leg shield.

EFFECT: improving reliability of device and decreasing the weight of device.

9 cl, 6 dwg