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Samuel R Skaggs

Mark F Folsom

Reactive armor device for shielding a user from bullets or other ballistic threat combined with incapacitating device for disabling an assailant. A device constructed according to the principles of the present invention combines a modern technology armor element which shields a user from attack, and a reactive incapacitating element which renders the assailant at least temporarily incapable of continuing the attack. Armors used by the present invention include at least one of: technical ceramics, metals and metallic alloys, cermets, polymers, elastomers, high strength glass, and resins. The incapacitating element comprises at least one of: a brilliant flash device; reactive splashback and chemical spray. A device as taught by the present invention may be implemented in a wide variety of commonly available articles, or may be installed in furniture or structural panels.

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Santa Fe, NM, United States of America

Samuel R Skaggs