Patent ID: 6964100

Claim:
A knife guard for selectively guarding a tip of a blade of a knife while exposing at least a portion of a cutting edge of the blade, the knife including a handle coupled to the blade, the knife guard comprising: (a) a handle portion for supporting the handle of the knife when the knife is placed in the knife guard; (b) a blade portion coupled to the handle portion for partially receiving the blade, wherein the blade portion includes a channel having a forward end, a rear end, and a middle portion extending between the forward and rear ends, wherein a height of the middle portion is less than a height of the forward end and a height of the rear end such that when the knife is placed in the knife guard with the cutting edge exposed, the forward and rear ends of the channel extend above the cutting edge and the middle portion is disposed below the cutting edge to expose at least a portion of the cutting edge; and (c) a nose portion coupled to the forward end of the blade portion for covering the tip of the blade.