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US 4,096,629 AGranted
Multiple bladed retractable claw weapon
OwnerAlfred B. Levineinventor
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Abstract
A pocket-sized claw-like multibladed weapon adapted to be held in the closed fist with the blades being spaced apart and projecting outwardly between adjoining fingers; likened to animal claws or talons of birds of prey. For storage and handling of the weapon, the blades are retractable, foldable, pivotable, and/or otherwise reposable in a confined manner, so that the weapon may be safely carried in the user's pocket or purse while occupying a minimal space. The weapon may be rapidly converted or erected from its reposed condition to its activated position when required.
Claims11
An artificial claw weapon comprising:
- a handle means having a shape to be substantially entirely enclosed within the encircling fingers of a closed human fist,
- a plurality of claw-shaped blade members spaced apart from one another along the length of the handle means and projecting transversely and substantially unidirectionally from the handle means with the spacing between adjoining blade members corresponding to the width of a human finger, whereby the blades may be interdigitated between the fingers and project outwardly from the fist when the handle means is enclosed by the fist,
- and means movably attaching the blade members to the handle means for varying the orientation of the blade memebers with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle means to an inactive, more compact, reposed condition, thereby to provide ease and safety in the storage and carrying of the claw weapon in the pocket and purse of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.