Out of front knife with assisted opening mechanism
OwnerJitung CHU, Jiun-Yu CHUinventors
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Abstract
An out of front knife with an assisted opening mechanism has a handle, a blade mounted in the handle, a thumb stud that drives the blade, and an extending assembly that assists with extending the blade out of the handle. With two sliders and two springs of the extending assembly, only when the blade is intentionally pushed to move a preset distance and overcome a preset resistance, one of the springs pulls and assists the blade of the out of front knife to extend out of the handle. Therefore, the out of front knife with the assisted opening mechanism is used safely.
Claims14
An out of front knife with an assisted opening mechanism comprising:
- a handle having a rear closed end, a front opening end, and a sliding slot formed through a sidewall of the handle;
- a blade slidably mounted through the front opening end of the handle;
- a thumb stud mounted beside the handle, protruding through the sliding slot of the handle and securely connected to the blade;
- and
- an extending assembly mounted in the handle and having
- a positioning frame securely mounted in the handle and having
- a sliding slot formed through the positioning frame;
- and
- a resilient rod disposed on a side edge of the positioning frame and having a retracting limiting end corresponding to the rear closed end of the handle;
- a first slider disposed beside the positioning frame and having
- a sliding slot formed through the first slider and corresponding to the sliding slot of the positioning frame;
- and
- an abutting portion formed on a front end of the first slider;
- a second slider disposed beside the first slider and having
- a sliding slot formed through the second slider and corresponding to the sliding slot of the first slider;
- and
- a pushing portion formed on a front end of the second slider;
- at least one fastener mounted through the sliding slots of the second slider, the first slider and the positioning frame and securely attached to the inner end of the blade;
- an extending spring being a tension spring and having two ends respectively connected to a front end of the positioning frame and a rear end of the first slider;
- and
- a retracting spring being a compression spring and having two ends respectively connected to the rear end of the first slider and the front end of the second slider;
- wherein when the blade is retracted in the handle, the retracting limiting end of the resilient rod abuts the abutting portion of the first slider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.