Patent Publication Number: US-4841640-A

Title: Hand and gut guard

Description:
This is a continuation-in-part of co-pending application Ser. No. 06/895,287 filed on Aug. 11, 1986 now abandoned. 
    
    
     This guard is made for hunters to aid them in field dressing animals in woods, or gutting them in camp, with no fear of cutting hand or gut. He uses this guard along with his hunting knife. You can gut animals as small as a squirrel or as large as a moose with ease. It can also be used as an emergency whistle to signal hunting partner or near by hunters. 
    
    
     The guard is made of round rigid plastic. FIG. 1 drawing is actual size of Hand and Gut Guard seven inches long, outside diameter is five eights inches 20, inside diameter seven sixteenth inches23, three and one half inches from top 21 there is a forty five degree bend to form handle 25. One and one quarter inch from bottom end 22, there is a groove one eighth of an inch wide 26, it goes up two inches to top 26. 
     FIG. 2 shows hunters knife 27 blade in groove 26. To gut animal make a cut between back legs approximately one inch long, with one hand on handle 24, insert bottom end 22 into one inch cut, then put knife 27 blade into top groove 26, with a little outward pressure put on inside of animals stomach, simply slide guard down to rib cage. 
     FIG. 3 shows how to use the emergency whistle. Hold whistle so the palm of your hand will cover two inch groove, 26--26, cover bottom 22 with finger of other hand, put top 21 to lower lip, blow air down into inside 23, this will create a loud whistling noise. 
    
    
     The Hand and Gut Guard is seven inches long, but after the forty five degree bend to form handle, it is six and three quarter inches long making it easy to carry in the hunters pocket.