B26B 1/042
By a spring biased locking lever pivoting around an axis parallel to
Official title: {by a spring biased locking lever pivoting around an axis parallel to the pivot axis of the blade}
B26B1/042 (By a spring biased locking lever pivoting around an axis parallel to) appears on 133 US grants and 118 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B26B- Granted patents
- 133
- Published applications
- 118
- Assignees
- 57
- Inventors
- 154
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Folding knife223US 5,511,310 AFiskars Inc. · 1996
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