PROTECTIVE HAND OR FOOT SHIELD

摘要

A protective shield for protecting a user's hands or feet from harmful ultraviolet rays when a coating composition applied to the user's fingernails or toenails during a manicure or pedicure is cured by an ultraviolet curing system. The protective shield includes a thin elastomeric or polymeric sheet of material impregnated with an ultraviolet blocking composition. The protective shield is provided with five or more slits, allowing the ends of the user's digits to be inserted through separate slits, ensuring that only the user's fingernails or toenails would be subjected to the ultraviolet rays produced by the ultraviolet curing system, while protecting the user's hands or feet from the ultraviolet rays. The protective shield is designed to cover a user's hand or foot while allowing the user's fingernails or toenails to protrude from separate slits provided near the end of the shield, while the slits rest firmly under the cuticles of the user's fingernails or toenails.

主权项

1. A shield for protecting a user's hand or foot during a UV light curing manicure or pedicure, comprising:
a planar sheet, the planar sheet being composed of a material including a composition preventing ultraviolet light rays from traveling through the planar sheet; and the planar sheet including a plurality of slits adapted to elastically stretch about the user's digits to expose the nails of the user's digits while covering the remainder the hand or foot.