US1418995A - Protective light armor - Google Patents

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A. A. WALLACE.

PROTECTIVE LIGHT ARMOR.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.II. 192,1.

` I Patented Jun@ 6, 1922..

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ANNI?. B. WALLACE, 0F 'l. "Y.'RA`.)NIEl,y PENNSYLVANIA.

PROTECTIVE LGHTABMOR.

v Specliioatlonof Letters Patent. Patente June 6, 1922,

`Application filled -August 11, 1921. Serial No. 491,619.

To all whom it may ont-em:

Be it known that I, AANNE .suitable tough resistant metal.

The loosely hanging strips ofthe fieziible mailare each about nine mchesnwide; and

say thirty inches long hanging loosely from a supporting bar 'or bars and so arranged in a double, 0 1' a triple, etc., row around the area to be protected; `that the openings bef 'tween any two adjacent` strips in a given row falls immediately -in the middle 0f a hanging strip in the companion row, before, or behind, so that the said loosely hanging strips overlap, as stated, there being a spfce of say an inch and a half or two inches between the inner and the outer rows of said hangin strips.

` Besi es the top supporting i baror] bars,

-if the cock-pit of an aeroplane isbeing protected, since this must beable to floop the loop the two vor more rows of loosely' hangving flexible mail strips should also be secured, by flexible lacings of spiral spring or similar elastic lacings, to bottom'bar or bars, which bottom -bar or bars-will become` Vlof one series being arranged '1n staggggreredl re the supporting bar or bars; when the aeroplane 1 s upside-down.

while in the case of thelooseiy 'hangieg and flexible mail strips protecting the aero planes gasoline tank; engines, bottom of/the cockpit, and similar points; the two ormo're rows of strlps may run 1n different directions; say cross-ways.

The accompanylng drawing shows a seclitoelans'WAL44 LACE, a citlzen of the United States, residing at Tyrone, in the county of Blair and State tion of such protective light armor for the cock-pit of an aeroplane composed of portlons of two overlapping layers of 'strips of flexible chain mail. The front set of hang 1ng strips; namely 9, 10,*and` 11, hangs by elastic la'cings from the top supporting bar 1,'2, and fastened, in likemanner elastically,

to the bottom bar 5, 6, which bottom bar becomes the supporting bar, when. the aero- E plane is u s1de-down.

' v.Similar y, the rear supporting bar has the. rear row of loosely hanging mail strips, 12, 13, 14, and 15, hanging from it and these strips 12, 13, 14',.and 15, are similarlyelastically laced to a bottom bar 7,- 8; so that 'this will act as a -supporting bar when the aeroplaneis inverte The openings between 'the front row of strips; between 9 and 1'0; and between 10 and 11; fall directly in front of themid points of the hanging strips 13,-and14,,and lconversely the openings between 12 and 13; between -13 and 14; and between 14 .and 15 fall behind the mid-points of strips 9, 10, and 11.l

The essential rotective principle involved' here is that emp oyed by the red Indian warrior; when he shielded himselffrom rifle or musket balls by catching them in his blanket, Vloosely held before him, which idea is also embodied in thev Japanese Samurai armor; wherein the fluttering silk streamer-s were designed to catch and baffle the enemys flyin arrows.

claim- 'A protective light armor comprising spaced series of adjacent strips of loosely hanging flexible mail-composed of tough resistant metal, the meeting edges of .the strlps v`Witnesses ADA L; BARGER, t BETEKAH F. HALL.

ANNE R; WALLACE.

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