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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Moshe Ravid, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Yoav Hirschberg, Mobile Post Maron Hagalil, IL;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 5/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F41H 5/02 ;
Abstract
The invention provides an armor system for ballistic protection of a flexible conduit, the system comprising a plurality of protective tubular elements in axial alternating array with double-socket joint elements, the outer peripheral ends of the tubular elements being provided with a convex curvature complementary to a concave curvature provided along the inner peripheral ends of the double-socket joint elements, a protective tubular element being inserted in each end of the double-socket joint elements, the curved peripheral end allowing any tubular element connected to a double-socket element to till freely relative thereto.