Finger guard
AssigneeThe Ford Meter Box Company, Inc.
InventorsCharles Miller Destro, Oran Junior Weaver
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides a compressive force finger guard sized to cover at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of a finger. Illustratively, the compressive force finger guard includes a longitudinally-extending body portion; wherein the longitudinally-extending body portion includes an opening therein sized to receive at least a portion of the fingertip; and a cap tip located on an end of the longitudinally-extending body portion; and wherein the cap tip includes a flange that extends from the longitudinally-extending body portion generally transverse to the longitudinally-extending body portion.
Claims13
A finger guard sized to cover at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of a finger, comprising:
- a longitudinally-extending body portion sized to receive and shroud at least a longitudinal extent of the portion the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- a cap tip located on an end of the longitudinally-extending body portion and sized to engage and cover a fingertip end of the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- wherein the cap tip at the fingertip end of the distal phalanx includes a flange extending generally transverse to the longitudinally-extending body portion and the longitudinal extent of the distal phalanx portion of the finger when received in the longitudinally-extending body portion
- such that at least a portion of the flange extends above all of the longitudinally-extending body portion;
- a finger strap sized to extend around at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- wherein the finger strap forms an opening sized to receive the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- an opening in the longitudinally-extending body portion adjacent the cap tip, opposite the flange, and discrete from the opening formed by the finger strap;
- and
- wherein a diameter of the flange is wider than a diameter of the longitudinally-extending body portion and the finger strap without the flange.
A finger guard sized to cover at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of a finger, comprising:
- a longitudinally-extending body portion;
- a cap tip located on an end of the longitudinally-extending body portion;
- wherein the cap tip includes a flange that extends from the longitudinally-extending body portion generally transverse to the longitudinally-extending body portion;
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- a finger strap sized to extend around at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- wherein a diameter of the flange is wider than a diameter of the longitudinally-extending body portion and the finger strap without the flange.
A finger guard sized to cover at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of a finger, comprising:
- a longitudinally-extending body portion sized to shroud at least the portion of the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- and
- a cap tip located on an end of the longitudinally-extending body portion and sized to cover at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- wherein the cap tip includes a flange extending generally transverse to the longitudinally-extending body portion;
- and
- a finger strap sized to extend around at least a portion of the distal phalanx portion of the finger;
- wherein a diameter of the flange is wider than a diameter of the longitudinally-extending body portion without the flange.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.