US 2001/0016988 A1 · COMBINATION UTILITY KNIFE

Abstract

The present invention is a utility knife adapted for measuring by incorporating a pair of hooks into the blade end of the handle of a common utility knife, which hooks are designed to removably secure the tab of a spring-biased measuring tape such that the tape may extend roughly laterally from the knife but also roughly parallel to the surface being cut. The angles of the hook relative to the knife end are designed to correct for measuring inaccuracies created by the distance that the knife blade must be held away from the surface to be cut; the invention allows the printed measuring surface of the tape measure to remain roughly parallel to the surface being cut, allowing for great ease in reading the measurements during cutting.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A utility knife comprising:

a housing having two separable halves forming two sides, a top and a bottom;
a blade removably engaged within the housing and having a cutting edge, wherein the cutting edge extends from the bottom of the housing;
and
a hook in each half of the housing;
wherein the hook and the housing form a space having a first side, a second side and an apex, wherein the space and the hook may reversibly retain a measuring tape having a tab in a close and substantially parallel alignment to a surface to be cut, wherein the tape extends laterally from a side of the knife.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Combination utility knife

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Combination utility knife

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Abstract

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