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US 10,933,517 B2Granted
Knife with screwdriver bit
AssigneeAllway Tools, Inc.
InventorsDonald Gringer, Yuan Fang Cheng
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Abstract
A knife that includes a blade, a handle affixed to an end of the blade and a screwdriver bit fixed to the handle and moveable between an extended position beyond the base of the handle and a retracted position in which the screwdriver bit is arranged completely within the opening of the handle.
Claims15
A broad knife for applying material to a surface, comprising:
- a blade;
- a handle affixed to an end of the blade and including an opening extending therein;
- a holder that is arranged within the handle and that includes a body that has a receptor, and
- a screwdriver bit fixed within the receptor of the handle and configured to slide within the opening of the handle and extend outwardly beyond the opening of the handle,
- wherein the holder includes an elastically deformable plate and a projection that extends from the elastically deformable plate that is configured to aid in extending the screwdriver bit beyond the opening of the handle and retracting the screwdriver bit within the handle, and
- wherein the handle includes at least one ramp about which the holder is slideable that extends at an increasing angle from an interior surface of the handle toward the opening of the handle such that the at least one ramp has a stop to lock the holder when the screwdriver bit is in a fully extended state beyond the opening of the handle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.