Vehicle and structure shield net/frame arrangement

• US 20110079135A1
• Filed: 09/08/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Foster-Miller Incorporated (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Foster-Miller Incorporated (Thermo Fisher Scientific Incorporated)
• Inventors: Mann, Thomas, Kanaan, Abed, Wheaton, Michael, Cardenas, Robert Lee, LaBrecque, Brendan, Anderson, Mike, Rush, Frances, Lawson, William R., Callahan, Patrick, Hoadley, David, Farinella, Michael D.
• Application Number:
  US12/807,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20110079135A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 89/36.02
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/013 Mounting or securing armour plates
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/023 Armour plate, or auxiliary armour plate mounted at a distance of the main armour plate, having cavities at its outer impact surface, or holes, for deflecting the projectile
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 5/026 Slat armour; Nets
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/00 Armoured or armed vehicles general vehicle aspects B60; armoured or armed ships B63G; armoured or armed aircraft B64D; mounting guns, e.g. machine guns, on vehicles F41A23/00
• CPC Class Codes: F41H 7/04 Armour construction in general F41H5/00

Abstract

A vehicle and structure shield system including a flexible structure with a fabric border including one of a hook and loop type fastener thereon, a frame for the flexible structure including frame members with the other of hook and loop fastener thereon for releasably securing the flexible structure to the frame, and hard points attached to the flexible structure.

Claims

1. A vehicle and structure shield system comprising:

a flexible structure with a fabric border including one of a hook and loop type fastener thereon;

a frame for the flexible structure including frame members with the other of hook and loop fastener thereon for releasably securing the flexible structure to the frame; and

hard points attached to the flexible structure.

2. The system of claim 1 in which the frame members include the other of the hook and loop fastener material thereon in a spiral wrap configuration thereabout.

3. The system of claim 1 in which the flexible structure includes a net with nodes and hard points are attached to the nets at the nodes in an array.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the frame further includes rearwardly extending members.

5. The system of claim 4 in which the frame includes frame members forming a polygon with spaced sides and an upper and a lower portion.

6. The system of claim 5 in which there are two spaced rearwardly extending members attached to the upper portion.

7. The system of claim 6 in which there are rearwardly extending members on each side extending from the lower portion to the upper portion with a hinged joint therebetween.

8. The system of claim 1 in which the hard points each include a post portion and a base portion with a cavity receiving the post portion therein.

9. The system of claim 1 in which each hard point includes:

a front face;

sidewalls extending rearward from the front face including slots therethrough for cords of a net;

a cavity surrounded by the sidewalls; and

a plug sized to be frictionally received in the cavity locking the cords of the net in the cavity.

10. The system of claim 9 in which the plug includes an outer wall with a knurled surface.

11. The system of claim 9 in which the front face has six sides there are six sidewalls.

12. The system of claim 11 in which two opposing sidewalls have slots therethrough in the middle of the opposing sidewalls.

13. The system of claim 12 in which there is a slot between adjacent sidewalls on each side of said two opposing sidewalls.

14. The system of claim 1 in which the hard points include steel.

15. The system of claim 1 in which the hard points weigh between 10 and 80 grams.

16. The system of claim 9 in which the front face has an area of between 0.1 and 0.8 in.².

17. The system of claim 9 in which the sidewalls each have an area of between 0.1 and 0.8 in.².

18. The system of claim 9 in which the cavity is round and the plug is cylindrical in shape.

19. The system of claim 9 in which each hard point weighs between 10 and 40 grams.

20. The system of claim 9 in which the slots each terminate in a rounded portion.