Patent Application
20230085150
The present invention relates generally to a protective sleeve for electronic products including laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices (hereinafter referred to as “Laptop Sleeve”) that easily and quickly converts into a light weight and compact personal ballistic body armor that can also provide effective stab resistance while being concealed as a commonly used and carried item.
Public shootings involving firearms are becoming more prevalent and fatal. With easy access to firearms, there is a reasonable fear of being a victim in a “mass shooting” incident. Public locations with events that gather large crowds are potential targets due to the higher probability of casualties.
Personal armor can be worn to protect oneself in a deadly situation involving a perpetrator with a firearm or edged weapon such as a knife.
Armor is completely ineffective if it is not readily available when needed. Existing inventions and products attempt to address this issue by incorporating ballistic armor into products such as bullet proof clip boards, armored briefcases, armored backpacks, etc.
Current inventions and products do not include a laptop sleeve product for consumers that easily and quickly converts into an armored ballistic resistant vest that can be worn by an individual during a mass shooting incident.
The present invention relates generally to a protective sleeve for electronic products including laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices that easily and quickly converts into a light weight and compact personal ballistic body armor that can also provide effective stab resistance while being concealed as a commonly used and carried item.
The Laptop Sleeve can be easily and quickly converted from its laptop sleeve configuration and utilized as a body armor that is worn as a vest by the user. The panels of the convertible sleeve are joined by a fully encompassing zipper around the entire circumference or by hook and loop, magnet, snap(s), button, buckles or any other alternative method that allows the joining and separation of the two panels that can be quickly and easily disconnected to separate the panels of the Laptop Sleeve to convert the sleeve to an armored vest that can be worn by an individual.
Once the Laptop Sleeve is converted to an armored vest, there are adjustable shoulder and side straps that can be adjusted to fit the height and width of an individual's torso.
Both side panels of the Laptop Sleeve feature an accessible pocket that holds the ballistic resistant armor for this novel product and application.
Depending on the threat level protection that is desired, the material used for these armor panels will vary and consequently the thickness, weight, and flexibility will change.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the general principles of the invention which are meant to be exemplary and not limiting:
The following description of the preferred embodiment of the invention is exemplary and not to be limiting in scope, wherein the detailed description is meant to only provide illustrative depiction of the general principles and conceptual aspects of the invention. Any variation on the general design that can be derived by a person of relevant skillset for said invention are to be included within the scope of the invention. No attempt is made to show structural details of the invention in more detail than is necessary for the fundamental understanding of the invention, the description taken with the drawings and/or examples making apparent to those skilled in the art how the several forms of the invention may be embodied in practice. Throughout the whole of this application, singular terms used herein shall include pluralities and plural terms shall include the singular. Similarly, throughout the description and the claims, the words ‘comprise’, ‘comprising’, and the like are to be construed in an inclusive sense as opposed to an exclusive or exhaustive sense.
The present invention relates generally to a protective sleeve for electronic products including laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices that easily and quickly converts into a light weight and compact personal ballistic body armor that can also provide effective stab resistance while being concealed as a commonly used and carried item.
When fully unzipped, the two panels of the convertible armor can be separated and quickly arranged to a vest configuration.
The two panels will combine at 25 back into the laptop sleeve configuration. All shoulder and side straps are comprised of an appropriate high denier nylon or polyester as the core and the appropriate hook or loop fabric or connector attached at the depicted locations discussed above
The straps can be assembled between the panel to act as shoulder and side straps for the convertible armor in its vest configuration depicted in
