Special Body Armor Loom Uses Mini-Mover Conveyors

Echelon Materials, founded in 2005, aims to improve the protective capability of textiles used in ballistic protections such as body armor for military and law enforcement personnel. The company has developed a patented new fabric, called Ti-Tek™, which includes titanium “knives” to better protect wearers from high-velocity rifle bullets.

A proprietary weaving process produces the TiTek™, a lightweight, bullet-resistant fabric that shreds bullets into shrapnel. TiTek™ can provide better protection while remaining flexible, lightweight, and comfortable. The material is designed to shred high-powered conical/rifle rounds, which disperses impact felt by the wearer — yet it is breathable and be comfortably worn or carried all day.

Echelon Fabric (with Mini-Mover Conveyor used in the Proprietary Loom) – images courtesy of Echelon

Because there wasn’t a loom in existence that could to weave TiTek™ fabric — it includes 70 titanium disks per square inch of weave — Echelon’s team of defense industry engineers designed one. The final design is complete and the loom build underway. This proprietary loom will allow high-volume production of TiTek™ material.

We can’t show you where the Mini-Mover conveyor fits into the loom design because, well, it’s proprietary. But we can show you a few visuals, courtesy of Echelon, that better explain the TiTek™ material and its benefits.

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