@@Guh_Ventiladores Yeh, it could help an infat if the barriers where more closed, but it doesn't hurt you if you accidentally stik your finger there. In the worst case, you just broke the fan.
In larger fans it's to protect everyone from the blades. In this case, is likelly decorative, and maybe to protect as well, however, in that case it might be to protect the blades once they're tiny so they're fragile.
