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US 12,447,637 B2Granted
Knife having sheath and bottle opener
AssigneeAOB Products Company
InventorsDennis W. Cauley, Jr., James Tayon, Anthony Vesich, Matthew Kinamore, Curtis Smith, Josh Neville, Mark Dalton
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Abstract
A knife, components thereof, a sheath therefor, and associated methods. The sheath may be releasably retainable on the blade by engagement of connection structure of the sheath and blade formed by inserting the blade into the sheath. The blade may include a bottle opener. The knife may include a finger recess adapted to receive a finger of a user when the knife is gripped by the user. The knife may be an ulu knife.
Claims23
An ulu knife comprising:
- a handle including a grip having an upper side, a lower side, a forward side, a rearward side, and opposite left and right ends;
- a blade connected to the handle and extending downward away from the grip to a cutting edge below the grip, the blade having a forward face and an opposite rear face;
- wherein at least one of the left and right ends of the grip includes a finger recess at least partially bounded by a forward wall and a rear wall having the finger recess therebetween, the finger recess located to receive a thumb of a user's hand while the user's hand grasps the grip with the palm of the user's hand against the upper side of the grip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.