Universal finger blinds

Abstract

Universal Finger Blinds: a bottomless, adjustable, portable covering for the hands and fingers purposed to obstruct the hands and fingers from view to operate and develop necessary skills for muscle memory to manipulate equipment including but not limited to: keyboards, typewriters, computing and calculating devices or for various dexterity skills that require obstructed vision of the hands and fingers. One may desire to look at the fingers to assure proper placement. Instead the goal should be avoid looking at the hands and fingers, yet achieve proper finger placement. The present invention results with a hand and finger covering that stays in place while in use, covers the hand surface without clashing the left and right hands, and fits comfortably to the user's wrist. Such use will allow a proprioceptive occurrence leaving the eyes to focus on written material while hands and fingers achieve muscle memory resulting with proper finger placement.

Claims

1. The present invention relates to a universal finger blind comprising: A bottomless dorsal hand-and-finger covering attached to the wrist via a wrist-cuff, creating one unit, securely situated on the top of the hand that functions to obstruct the hands and fingers from the user's sight while operating keyboard, computing, and calculating instruments or implementing various skills that require obstructed vision of the hands and fingers; the dorsal hand-and-finger covering, further includes a flexible polygonal, pentagonal or at least a three-side shaped dorsal blind flap; an adjustment system attached to the dorsal blind flap configured to customize the size in order to accommodate different hand sizes; and a wrist-cuff attached to the lower portion of the dorsal blind flap to comfortably keep blind in place.

2. The universal finger blind according to claim 1, wherein: said flexible polygonal, pentagonal or at least a three-side shaped dorsal blind flap consists of five sides can range in various sizes and shapes and portions and is not limited to curves and/or design shapes wherein sides are straight in-form of which said flexible dorsal blind flap and consists, of a washable polyfoam and is otherwise not limited to natural or man-made fibers, foams, plastics, polyesters, films, mesh, metal, flax, leather, bamboo but should have the ability to flip back said dorsal blind flap to view the hands and fingers to ensure proper placement.

3. The universal finger blind according to claim 1 wherein: said dorsal blind flap is situated over the hand-and-fingers having no palm layer.

4. The universal finger blind according to claim 1 wherein: said dorsal blind flap is wide and long enough to cover a range of hand sizes from child to adult so having ability to stretch, extend, and move the hands and fingers freely still having an obstructed view from the eyes with potential to expose the thumb regardless of hand size.

5. The universal finger blind according to claim 1 wherein: said dorsal blind flap will not clash left hand materials with right hand materials while in use.

6. The universal finger blind according to claim 1 wherein: further comprising said adjustment system attached to the surface of said dorsal blind flap not being limited to various configurations as means to fasten for a customized fit for a range of hand sizes comprising of permanent snaps at the top left and right hand upper portions with intentions to be secured to the left and right mid portion snaps, but is not limited to clips, Velcro®, buttons, hook and eye, tongue buckle or magnets.

7. The universal finger blind according to claim 1 wherein: further comprising said wrist-cuff being an extension of said dorsal blind flap attached to the lower portion, creating one unit, being permanently stitched but is not limited to other means of fastening with by use of snaps, clips, Velcro®, buttons, hook and eye, tongue buckle or adhesive.

8. The universal finger blind according to claim 7 wherein: said wrist-cuff loop comprising of one strip of material not limited to natural or man-made fibers, plastics, polyesters, elastic, mesh, metal, flax, leather, having two ends which includes a boundary system by means to create an adjustable loop.

9. The universal finger blind according to claim 8 further comprising: a boundary system of two rings on either side, looped around and permanently stitched but not limited to use of adhesive where once intertwined, a pull strap is created; wherein the said boundary system rings interconnect creating a “boundary” where the wrist-cuff loop does not undo completely allowing the cuff to be easily affixed to the user's wrist by pulling on its now circular shape until desired secure fit; wherein the said boundary system may be pulled on either side simultaneously and the cuff will lay flat for easy storage.

10. The universal finger blind according to claim 8 further comprising: an adjustable loop with Velcro® attached to said wrist-cuff loop but not limited to other means of fastening with by use of snaps, clips, buttons, hook and eye, tongue buckle or adhesive; wherein the first Velcro® portion is permanently affixed to the top side of said wrist-cuff loop above the said lower portion of said dorsal blind flap and the second Velcro® portion permanently affixed on the opposite side by stitching.

11. The universal finger blind according to claim 1 further comprising: a unique accessory and training tool of the keyboard, computing or calculating device, and various skills that require obstructed vision of the hands and fingers; further is easily portable; further is compact to easily store in a folder, book, personal bag, computer bag, desk or bench; further is adaptable, configurable and adjustable for various hand and wrist sizes; further blinds the hands and fingers from user's view; further helps achieve muscle memory while obstructing vision from hands and fingers; further does not hinder necessary movement of the arms, wrist, hands and fingers while engaging in keyboard geography.

12. The universal finger blind according to claim 7 wherein: said wrist-cuff comprising of one strip of material not limited to natural or man-made fibers, plastics, polyesters, elastic, mesh, metal, flax, leather having no ends resulting in a continuous loop.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The invention can better be understood referencing the following drawings and descriptions.

(2) Such are not scale drawings, rather emphasis being placed on the principles of the invention.

(3) Each attached reference number describes the figures throughout the different views.

(4) FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of the hand covering before wrist-cuff loop assembly.

(5) FIG. 2 is a bottom perspective view of the hand covering before wrist-cuff loop assembly.

(6) FIG. 3 is a slanted perspective view with wrist-cuff loop assembled.

(7) FIG. 4 is a top perspective of FIG. 3 with wrist-cuff pulled on both sides lying flat for easy storage.

(8) FIG. 5 is a top perspective view of FIG. 1 blinding the user's hand, exposing the thumb if desired.

(9) FIG. 6 is a bottom perspective of view of FIG. 2 with the user's palm facing up; the back of the hand is covered, exposing the thumb on the side if desired.

(10) FIG. 7 is an illustrative perspective of FIG. 3 blinding the user's hand, exposing the thumb.

(11) FIG. 8 is a schematic view of FIG. 7 where the top corners fold back for a customized fit on smaller hands.

(12) FIG. 9 is a schematic view of FIG. 8 shown on a smaller hand where the cover folds back and the adjustment system fastens showcasing the same product designed to fit all hand sizes.

(13) FIG. 10 is a bottom-side perspective view with palms upward and hands-and-fingers against the covering with wrist-cuff loop assembled.

(14) FIG. 11. is an illustrative perspective of FIG. 7 using a piano keyboard.

(15) FIG. 12. is an illustrative perspective of FIG. 7 using a computing device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

(16) FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hand-and-finger covering blind 100 according to the embodiment of the invention. Blind 100 is preferably used as a bottomless dorsal blind of the hand-and-fingers while using a piano, keyboard typewriter or computing or calculating device.

(17) However, blind 100 may be used for other intentions of covering the hands-and-fingers while using various instruments and skills. While only a left-hand finger blind is shown and discussed, it is understood that blind 100 be a pair, with the right-hand blind being formed as a mirror image of blind 100.

(18) Blind 100 generally comprises of two sections, a bottomless, adjustable covering for the hands-and-fingers 101, and an adjustable wrist attachment 102.

(19) 101 is comprised of 103: a preferably flexible material hand-and-finger covering, 104: a border affixed, preferably stitched to 103, and an adjustment option 105a and 105b: by use of preferably snaps or other clips, Velcro®, buttons, hook and eye, tongue buckle, magnets, or other means of fastening preferably stitched to 103 to easily fold back creating a smaller, custom sized blind.

(20) FIG. 1 shows 102 is comprised of a wrist strap 106, a fastening agent preferably hook 107 and loop 108 both attached to 106 preferably by stitching or adhesive, and two rings 109 and 110 both attached to 106 preferably by stitching or adhesive.

(21) FIG. 2 is a perspective view where 101 and 102 being affixed together 111 by preferably stitching or adhesive attaching to make one unit. FIG. 2 also indicates where 109 and 110 are each looped around 106 and become affixed and preferably stitched 112 and 113.

(22) In FIG. 3 blind 100 depicts 114: the cuff-like wrist attachment where 109 is preferably positioned through 110 creating a pull tab 115 resulting when 106 be pulled or loosened, 109 and 110 collide and meet to maintain the “cuff-like” shape; FIG. 3 also depicts when a user's hand fits through 114, the user's opposite hand pulls 115 which embodies 107 and affixes to 108 becoming engaged by pressing the two parts together, to achieve the desired tightness.

(23) Alternatively, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of blind 100 lying flat where 114 is pulled on either side until 109 and 110 meet.

(24) FIG. 5 depicts blind 100 where 103 has an angle 116 towards the outer-side of the hand allowing the fingers to stretch and extend, yet still achieve visual obstruction from the eyes; on the opposite inner-side 117 embodies a straight edge allowing the thumb to either be obstructed or exposed to view. FIG. 5 is a perspective view with 102 extended and 103 hovering yet slightly encountering the surface of the user's hand. FIG. 6 is a perspective view with dorsal of the hand on 102 and 103 with the palm facing upward.

(25) An embodiment of blind 100 is shown in FIG. 7 where 114 secures about the user's wrist when 115 pulls to the desired tightness preferably having 107 affix to 108. Another embodiment feature is shown in FIG. 8 when 103 flips backward adjusting until 105a fastens to 105b achieving a custom fit for smaller hands as shown in FIG. 9, still 115 adjusts to fit the smaller wrist preferably having 107 affix to 108.

(26) As shown in FIG. 10, 114 is comfortably secured about the user's wrist, outer fingers freely angle towards 116, thumb freely towards 117, stretching and extending without constraint under 103.

(27) FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 exemplify a user on a keyboard or piano, and also on a computer keyboard.

(28) Both where 103 cover and obstruct the hands-and-fingers from eyes.

(29) While many different embodiments to which the principles of the present invention have been described, it will be apparent that said descriptions do not limit but rather exemplify the preferred scope of the invention. Therefore, the claims should be read covering all embodiments and implementations of the inventive concept(s). Additionally, various modifications and changes of the inventive concept(s) may be made within the scope of the attached claims.