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US 2026/0091523 A1Published application
Locking Foldable Knife with Double Locking Mechanism
AssigneeGood Sportsman Marketing, LLC
InventorsDillon Douglas, Thomas Rucci
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Abstract
A locking foldable knife comprises a locking assembly that reliably locks a blade in an extended and folded position. The locking assembly utilizes the surface area of a shaped peripheral edge at a second end of a blade, together with, confirming structures of a locking bar, and one or more stops to reliably lock a blade in an extended position. The locking foldable knife may be doubly secured with a switch lock that prevents inadvertent unlocking.
Claims20
A method for providing a locking foldable knife comprising:
- rotatably mounting a proximal end of a blade to a handle of the locking foldable knife to rotate in an unfolding direction from a folded state to an unfolded state and in a folding direction from the unfolded state to the folded state;
- mounting at least one stop to the handle;
- movably mounting a locking bar relative to the handle to between an extended position and retracted position relative to the proximal end of the blade and the at least one stop;
- configuring the locking bar to engage between at least one portion of the blade and the at least one stop when the locking bar is in the extended position;
- configuring the locking bar to disengage at least from the at least one portion of the blade when the locking bar is in the retracted position;
- movably mounting a lock to move between a locked position and an unlocked position relative to the locking bar;
- configuring the lock to engage a notched portion of the of the locking bar when the lock is in the locked position;
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- configuring the lock to disengage from the notched portion when the lock is in the unlocked position.
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A method for providing a knife, the method comprising, not necessarily in sequence:
- rotatably mounting a proximal end of a blade on a handle of the knife to rotate in an unfolding direction from a folded state to an unfolded state and in a folding direction from the unfolded state to the folded state;
- mounting a first stop on the handle adjacent to the proximal end of the blade;
- mounting a locking bar on the handle to move between an extended position and a retracted position relative to the first stop and the proximal end of the blade;
- configuring an unfolded locking edge on the proximal end of the blade to engage a first edge of the locking bar in the extended position in response to the blade rotated in the folding direction from the unfolded state;
- configuring a second edge, opposing the first edge, of the locking bar in the extended position to engage the first stop in response to the blade rotated in the folding direction from the unfolded state;
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- configuring the first edge of the locking bar in the retracted position to disengage from the unfolded locking edge when the blade is in the unfolded state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.