B26B 1/044
By a spring tongue snapping behind or into the tang of the
Official title: {by a spring tongue snapping behind or into the tang of the blade from a side part of the handle}
B26B1/044 (By a spring tongue snapping behind or into the tang of the) appears on 155 US grants and 191 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B26B- Granted patents
- 155
- Published applications
- 191
- Assignees
- 63
- Inventors
- 168
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 8 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 7 |
| 2025 | 3 | 7 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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