Safety Knife
AssigneeRitesafety Products Int'l, LLC
InventorThomas Jay Landwehr
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Abstract
Safety knife with a blade that can be replaced and where access to the cutting edge of the blade is limited so as to reduce the risk of injury to a user, comprising a blade piece with a blade arranged between a guard and a fixation and an oblong knife body comprising a holder and a partly flat insert for rigidly holding the blade piece near a proximal end, wherein said insert having rails on both sides of the flat part at least near the proximal end, said holder including a depression near the proximal end for receiving the fixation and a channel extending from the proximal end towards the distal end at least beyond the depression for receiving at least the flat part of the insert, said channel having grooves on each side starting at the proximal end for receiving the rails.
Claims16
A safety knife comprising:
- a blade piece having a guard, a fixation and a blade arranged between the guard and the fixation;
- an oblong knife body comprising a holder and an insert with a flat part extending over most of a length of said insert for rigidly holding the blade piece near a proximal end of the oblong knife body, wherein said insert having rails on both sides of the flat part at least towards a proximal end of the insert;
- said holder including a depression near a proximal end of the holder for receiving the fixation;
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- a channel extending from the proximal end of the holder towards a distal end of the holder at least beyond the depression for receiving at least the flat part of said insert, and said channel having grooves on each side thereof, starting at the proximal end of the holder for receiving the rails.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.