CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0135133 filed on Oct. 29, 2019 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the contents of which in its entirety are herein incorporated by reference.

BACKGROUND

1. Field

The present disclosure relates to a finger guard, and particularly to a finger guard for protecting a wearer's finger against injury due to accidental finger cuts caused when slicing or cutting foodstuff using a cutting tool, such as a culinary knife. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a finger guard, which can be worn in an adjustably fastened condition according to the thickness of a wearer's finger by permitting the finger guard to be worn in the form of, for example, a protective armor, and can efficiently improve flexibility and a degree of freedom in terms of finger motions and knuckle movements so as to facilitate bending or flexion of the wearer's finger.

2. Description of the Related Art

When cutting for cooking, scissoring a pad material, or handling a cutting tool, such as a sharp edged tool, there are constant concerns about severe or minor injury to a worker's finger due to cuts or punctures.

To address such concerns in doing works using the cutting tool, like in a cutting work using a knife or a scissoring work, several types of finger guards have been proposed, including Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1330005, Korean Utility Model Registration No. 20-0476537 and 20-0476538, and so on.

However, the existing finger guards are typically configured to be worn in a wearing position in which a wearer's finger is inserted into a hollow portion of a pipe-shaped (or tubular) body of a finger guard and then accommodated in the body. With this configuration, when a wearer moves his or her finger in a state in which the wearer's finger is inserted into the inflexible or inelastic pipe-shaped (or tubular) body, a degree of freedom in terms of finger motions may be noticeably lowered.

Therefore, since it is quite difficult to perform knuckle movements in a wearing position of the existing finger guard, efficiently performing an elaborate and precise work may be difficult to achieve.

In addition, because there is no fastening means for fastening opposite ends of a finger, upon which the finger guard is to be worn, the existing finger guard may become gradually loosened due to repetition of wearer's finger motions, resulting in inconvenience in use and lowering stability.

The present disclosure has been derived under these technical backgrounds stated above, and information about the problems posed in the background art had been held by the applicant of the preset disclosure for the purpose of deriving the present disclosure or had been acquired in the course of deriving the present disclosure. Accordingly, the above information cannot be necessarily considered as the content known to the general public prior to filing of the present disclosure.

SUMMARY

The present invention has been made in an effort to solve the problems of the prior art finger guard, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a finger guard having improved stability, practicability and wearing comfort by permitting the finger guard to be worn in the form of a protective armor such that fastening of the finger guard can be appropriately adjusted so as to be tailored to the thickness of a wearer's finger when the finger guard is worn for finger protection.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a finger guard having enhanced wearing flexibility and freedom to improve a degree of freedom in terms of finger motions and knuckle movements for facilitating bending or flexion of the finger when the finger guard is worn for finger protection.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a finger guard exhibiting enhanced functionality and quality for efficiently performing an elaborate and precise work when the finger guard is worn for finger protection.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a finger guard includes a rectangular reticulate or netlike pad networked in a movable manner such that a plurality of unit plate pieces are connected to one another in four directions by a plurality of connecting loop members, and at least a pair of fastening belt members provided to extend or protrude parallel with one side of the reticulate pad, wherein the finger guard is configured to be worn in the form of a protective armor such that the reticulate pad covers and wraps around the dorsal side of a finger, upon which the finger guard is to be worn, and the respective fastening belt members pass the volar side of the finger to then be connected to be hooked on to one of the unit plate pieces in a state in which a portion of the volar side of the finger is opened and exposed in a length direction of the finger.

In some examples of the finger guard having aforementioned configuration, each of the unit plate pieces may have loop portions extending or protruding from four sides of a rectangular plate body having a predetermined thickness, and the rectangular reticulate pad may be provided by coupling and fastening the loop portions to one another by the connecting loop members in a state in which the unit plate pieces are arranged such that loop portions of adjacent ones of the unit plate pieces face one another.

In addition, each of the connecting loop members may include a pair of loop members foldably coupled to each other by means of a hinge pin.

In addition, each of the fastening belt members may be configured such that an elastic band and one end of the elastic band are fixedly fastened to the loop portions of the unit plate piece by means of a clip-type fastener to define a fixed end, and a hook selectively hooked on to the loop portion of one of the plurality of unit plate pieces is connected to a free end of the elastic band by means of another clip-type fastener.

As described above, the finger guard according to the present disclosure is configured to be worn in the form of a protective armor to appropriately adjust fastening of the finger guard so as to be tailored to the thickness of a wearer's finger when the finger guard is worn for finger protection, thereby efficiently improve convenience in use and wearing comfort.

In addition, the finger guard according to the present disclosure can improve a degree of freedom in terms of finger motions and knuckle movements when the finger guard is worn for finger protection, thereby providing enhanced functionality and quality for efficiently performing an elaborate and precise work.

In addition, the finger guard according to the present disclosure has an increased fastening force applied on a finger by means of fastening means when the finger guard is worn for finger protection, thereby improving stability and wearing comfort.

