Med-Eng Systems Inc.

Pierre Voisine

Aristidis Makris

Richard J L'Abbe

Shaik M Kalaam

Benoit Orban

Gad Shaanan

Justin E Myles

Serge Dubeau

Derek Hunziker

David P Rozon

Mark Smith

Harald Hermann Kleine

Charles De Gagne

Raymond C James

Ray James

Bradley C Lavallee

Jeff G Nerenberg

A hand protection system for use by individuals involved in de-mining operations to locate and identify buried anti-personnel mines is designed to provide a degree of protection to the hands of the operative while still enabling the hands to perform necessary operations such as manipulating a probe rod, clearing soil by use of the fingers, etc. In one form the hand protector is a trough-shaped shield which tapers to a rounded forward end and is adapted to fit over the back of the hand of the user, the shield being open on its underside so that the user's fingers can be manipulated. In another form the hand protecting shield is of conical shape having a hole through its narrow end through which a probe can be extended and manipulated by a hand received within the protector. The protector includes laminated layers of aramid fibers together with other tough blast resistant materials such as polycabonate.

Hand protection system

Set of protective clothing

A system to provide foot protection against anti-personnel land mines is designed for use by mine clearance personnel and includes a raised frame having a central foot support location thereon which ensures a spacing of the wearer's foot above the ground surface of from 10 to 30 cm. The ground-engaging parts of the frame are spaced forwardly and rearwardly of the foot location and the frame includes on its underside blast protection material, the combined results of these measures being to greatly attenuate the blast and fragmentation effects of an exploding mine on the foot of the user. Moreover, the underside of the structure, including legs, is aerodynamically shaped to deflect the blast wave loading and fragments generated by the mine detonation.

Anti-personnel mine foot protection systems

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Limoges, Canada

Pierre Voisine