KNITTED FABRIC PANEL STRUCTURE AND PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE

摘要

A knitted fabric panel structure has first and second spaced apart knitted layers and an intermediate spacing knit of ribs interconnecting the layers, the ribs of the spacing unit being of an industrial yarn of aramide fiber, carbon fiber, ceramic fiber, fiberglass, or blends of such fibers. The spacing knit is impregnated with a hardened resin such that the intermediate ribs form rigid spacing elements of the first and second layers.