Field dressing attachment for hunting knife

Claim 1

A device attachable to a hunting knife to adapt same for skinning and field dressing operation, comprising: a guard member adapted to fit over only a tip portion of the blade of said knife, with a passage in said guard member receiving the tip portion of the blade, so that the guard member when attached leaves exposed a major portion of the blade cutting surface of the knife, while occluding the tip portion of the blade from cutting exposure; said guard member having a vertical rear face of rectangular shape and greater height than width, flat side surfaces substantially parallel to one another, flat top and bottom rear surfaces substantially parallel to one another, and top and bottom frontal surfaces extending convergingly forwardly with respect to one another to a rounded frontal extremity, said guard member thereby comprising a smooth continuous and generally bullet-shaped frontal contour; said passage being open to insertion of a knife tip portion at said rear face, and open at said flat bottom rear face for protrusion of the knife blade cutting surface therefrom, said passage extending upwardly from the rear bottom surface partially into the guard member; and a hole in a rear upper portion of the guard member, extending therethrough between said flat side surfaces, said hole being above and in vertically spaced relationship to said passage, whereby a stand element may be passed through said hole and manually grasped at corresponding portions of its length remote from said guard member, to manually retain said guard member in position at said tip portion of the knife blade.

Claim 2

A device attachable to a hunting knife to adapt same for skinning and field dressing operation, comprising: a guard member adapted to fit over only a tip portion of the blade of said knife, with a passage in said guard member receiving the tip portion of the blade, so that the guard member when attached leaves exposed a major portion of the blade cutting surface of the knife, while occluding the tip portion of the blade from cutting exposure; said guard member having a vertical rear face of rectangular shape and greater height than width, flat side surfaces substantially parallel to one another, flat top and bottom rear surfaces substantially parallel to one another, and top and bottom frontal surfaces extending convergingly forwardly with respect to one another to a rounded frontal extremity, said guard member thereby comprising a smooth continuous and generally bullet-shaped frontal contour; said passage being open to insertion of a knife tip portion at said rear face, and open at said flat bottom rear face for protrusion of the knife blade cutting surface therefrom, said passage extending upwardly from the rear bottom surface partially into the guard member; and a hole in a rear upper portion of the guard member, extending therethrough between said flat side surfaces, said hole being above and in vertically spaced relationship to said passage, whereby a stand element may be passed through said hole and manually grasped at corresponding portions of its length remote from said guard member, to manually retain said guard member in position at said tip portion of the knife blade.