abstract |
A woven fabric from yarn for use in the manufacture of ballistic projectile or puncture resistant articles where the fabric has a first plurality of parallel oriented yarns within the plane of the fabric interwoven with a second plurality of parallel oriented yarns within the plane of the fabric having a direction/orientation within the plane of the fabric different from that of the first plurality and where the crossing of any fiber yarn from the first plurality with a fiber yarn from the second plurality forms a pair of acute vertical angles having an angular measurement less than 90 degrees. |