Body Armor and Body Armor Manufacturing Methods

摘要

Body armor plates are provided that can include two opposing and angled wither bends. Methods for manufacturing a body armor plate are provided; the methods can include: providing a substantially unbent plate defining a trapezoid portion sharing one edge with a rectangular portion, the rectangular portion having another edge opposing the one edge; marking the plate with an isosceles triangle, a baseline of the isosceles triangle extending along the one edge shared by the trapezoid portion and the rectangular portion, and the sidelines of the isosceles triangle forming the isosceles triangle vertex at a midpoint of the other edge opposing one edge; and aligning the plate within a press along each of the marked sidelines; and bending the plate along each of the sidelines of the triangle.