Backpack with extractable ballistic protection packages
View Patent ↗Equipment ( 1 ) having a personal protection system. The equipment ( 1 ) is envisaged to be carried on a user's shoulders undercovered. To this end, the equipment has a backpack ( 2 ) containing a front ballistic package ( 10 ) mounted in a first compartment ( 6 ) of the backpack ( 2 ) with capability of being pulled out therefrom. The front ballistic package ( 10 ) comprises a pull-out grip ( 12 ) at a first end ( 14 ) and at a second end ( 16 ), two connecting members ( 18 ) connected to the backpack ( 2 ), and allowing the passage of the user's head during the extraction thereof. Furthermore, according to the invention there are provided compacting means ( 20 ) that cause that upon pulling out the front ballistic package ( 10 ) for protecting the user the first compartment ( 6 ) can modify the size thereof from an expanded to a compacted size notably reducing its size.
1. An equipment having a personal protection system suitable for being carried on a user's shoulders comprising: (a) a backpack having two shoulder straps and at least one first upper compartment accessible from the outside through a first operable closing means, (b) a front ballistic package mounted with capability of being pulled out through said first closing means in said first upper compartment comprising (i) an pull-out grip at a first end and (ii) at a second end, opposite to said first end, two connecting members between said front ballistic package and said backpack, spaced apart from one other to allow for the passage of said user's head, wherein a configuration of said equipment is adjustable between (i) an undercover position in which said front ballistic package is inserted in said first upper compartment and said grip projects through said first closing means and is accessible by said user without having to remove the backpack from his shoulders and (ii) a protection position in which said front ballistic package is pulled out from said first upper compartment, facing said backpack such that it is configured for covering at least the vital organs of said user, wherein said equipment further comprises (c) compacting means which connect said front ballistic package with said backpack, such that said first upper compartment can modify the size thereof between (d) an expanded size when said equipment is in the undercover position and (e) a compacted size when said equipment is in the protection position; and wherein said first upper compartment comprises a surface near to the contact surface between said backpack and said user's back and a surface remote from said contact surface, facing said near surface, wherein said compacting means comprise at least one cable connecting said near and remote surfaces and which at least at one end is attached to said front ballistic package, said cable having a length such that when said equipment is in the protection position, said first upper compartment is in the compacted size.
2. The equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising a protective rear ballistic package associated with said backpack and configured to protect said user's vital organs from behind and a sacroiliac ballistic package at the bottom area of said equipment, movable between a hidden position and a unfolded position in which said sacroiliac ballistic package covers the user's sacroiliac region.
3. The equipment according to claim 2 , wherein said backpack comprises a second independent lower compartment, accessible from the outside through a second operable closing means and containing said sacroiliac ballistic package in such a way that said sacroiliac ballistic package can be pulled out.
4. The equipment according to claim 2 , further comprising a sacroiliac ballistic plate functionally connected to said sacroiliac ballistic package and provided at the bottom area of said equipment movable between a hidden position and an unfolded position.
5. The equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising a pelvic ballistic package functionally connected to said front ballistic package with said pelvic ballistic package being unfoldable from said first end when said equipment adopts the protection position, such that in said unfoldable position said pelvic ballistic package covers the user's pelvic region.
6. The equipment according to claim 5 , further comprising a pelvic ballistic plate functionally connected to said pelvic ballistic package and provided at the bottom area of said equipment when said equipment adopts said protection position, said pelvic ballistic plate being movable between a hidden position and an unfolded position.
7. The equipment according to claim 1 , wherein said backpack comprises a harness incorporating an exfiltration anchorage on the contact surface with said user's back.
8. The equipment according to claim 7 , wherein said harness comprises firsts straps as leg straps at the bottom area of said backpack and second straps connected to said first straps, which extend from the sacroiliac area to the cervical area of said backpack and are coupled with said exfiltration anchorage.
9. The equipment according to claim 8 , further comprising a third independent lower compartment accessible from the outside through a third operable closing means containing said first straps.
10. The equipment according to claim 1 , wherein the equipment comprises a weapon suspension device comprising
[a] first and second attachment points provided at the front area of said equipment such that when said equipment adopts the protection position said first and second attachment points are arranged at a the height of said user's shoulders on a containing cover of the front ballistic package or on the shoulder straps,
[b] a first suspension member extending between said first and second attachment points and
[c] a second suspension member transversely mounted at a first end on said first suspension member slidingly between said first and second attachment points and connected to said weapon at a second end.
11. The equipment according to claim 10 , wherein said first suspension member has on at least one of the ends thereof, first connecting means with said first or second attachment point, said connecting means being movable between an open position and a closed position to disconnect the connection between said first suspension member and said first or second attachment point.
12. The equipment according to claim 10 , wherein said second suspension member comprises second connecting means with a fixed part slidingly mounted between said first and second attachment points and provided with a shaft and a part rotary relative to said shaft.
13. The equipment according to claim 10 , wherein said front ballistic package comprises holding means, configured to hold a weapon at the front part of said front ballistic package such that when the configuration of said equipment is changed between the undercover position and the protection position, said weapon is moved fixedly with said front ballistic package.
14. The equipment according to claim 1 , further comprising securing means adapted to releasably connect said pull-out grip to said backpack, said securing means being movable between
[a] a securing position in which said grip and said backpack are directly attached to each other through said securing means and
[b] a release position in which said grip is released from said backpack to allow said front ballistic package to be pulled out.
15. The equipment according to claim 14 , wherein said securing means comprise at least
[a] one grip eyelet provided on said grip,
[b] a pair of backpack eyelets, spaced apart at least by the width of said grip,
[c] a first longitudinal member configured to be snugly guided through said eyelets,
wherein said grip and backpack eyelets and said longitudinal member are configured so that, starting out from said securing position, in which said grip eyelet is aligned between said pair of backpack eyelets and said first longitudinal member is inserted in said grip and backpack eyelets, on passing to said release position, said first longitudinal member is moved at least out of said grip eyelet.
16. The equipment according to claim 15 , wherein said longitudinal member is flexible and the end of said first longitudinal member opposite to the end is inserted in said grip and backpack eyelets is connected to a movable blocking member provided on one of said shoulder straps, within the reach of the user's hand, mounted movably at least in the distance between said securing position and said release position of said securing means.
17. The equipment according to claim 1 , wherein said first operable closing means comprises
[a] a plurality of closing means eyelets adjacent both sides of said first upper compartment and
[b] a second flexible longitudinal member fixedly mounted projecting from each of the sides of said pull-out grip and which in said undercover position is inserted snugly guided in said plurality of closing means eyelets
said second longitudinal member having such a length that when said equipment passes from said undercover position to said protection position, said second longitudinal member is withdrawn from said plurality of closing means eyelets.
18. An equipment having a personal protection system suitable for being carried on a user's shoulders comprising: (a) a backpack having two shoulder straps and at least one first upper compartment accessible from the outside through a first operable closing means, (b) a front ballistic package mounted with capability of being pulled out through said first closing means in said first upper compartment comprising (i) an pull-out grip at a first end and (ii) at a second end, opposite to said first end, two connecting members between said front ballistic package and said backpack, spaced apart from one other to allow for the passage of said user's head, wherein a configuration of said equipment is adjustable between (i) an undercover position in which said front ballistic package is inserted in said first upper compartment and said grip projects through said first closing means and is accessible by said user without having to remove the backpack from his shoulders and (ii) a protection position in which said front ballistic package is pulled out from said first upper compartment, facing said backpack such that it is configured for covering at least the vital organs of said user, wherein said equipment further comprises (c) one or more flexible members configured to connect said front ballistic package with said backpack, such that said first upper compartment can modify the size thereof between (d) an expanded size when said equipment is in the undercover position and (e) a compacted size when said equipment is in the protection position; and wherein said first upper compartment further comprises a surface near to a contact surface between said backpack and a user's back and a surface remote from said contact surface, facing said near surface, wherein a compacting means comprise at least one cable connecting said near and remote surfaces and which at least at one end is attached to said front ballistic package, said cable having a length such that when said equipment is in the protection position, said first upper compartment is in the compacted size.