Protective finger socket
OwnerJason P. Loewen, Gary G. Loeweninventors
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Abstract
A finger socket structure is arranged to afford protection to an individual's finger during various procedures. The invention includes a resilient socket structure having an entrance opening directed into a polymeric foam-lined cavity, wherein a nose portion of the socket includes a slot for receiving and positioning a knife blade therethrough. Side wall protective plates of a greater hardness than the socket shell is provided to afford lateral protection to the finger, with a groove directed through a bottom wall of the finger adjacent the entrance opening to secure a nail and the like for positioning the nail during a hammering procedure.
Claims5
A protective finger socket, comprising,
- a flexible resilient socket shell, the socket shell having an entrance opening spaced from a nose in a longitudinally aligned relationship, with the entrance opening including a resilient entrance rib extending coextensively in adjacency to the entrance opening to maintain the entrance opening in an opened configuration, and wherein the shell includes a socket cavity, and the socket cavity includes a polymeric foam liner coextensive with the socket cavity, and
- the socket shell includes a socket bottom surface, a socket top surface, and spaced side wall surfaces, and the side wall surfaces each include an aperture, and each aperture is arranged in a coaxially aligned relationship relative to one another, and a U-shaped extension shield means arranged for mounting within the socket cavity extending from the socket cavity from the socket top surface, and the shield means including spaced bosses, with one of said bosses arranged for reception within one of said apertures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.