Pocket folding tool and knife system
OwnerPhilip V. Miceliinventor
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Abstract
A folding pocket tool and knife of the type having paired handles pivotal to a blade for enclosing or extending the blade depending on pivoted position has an improved implement holding tool block that passes through an implement and co-acting with this, blade centerers on each handle hold the implement centrally between them. An economical liner-free aluminum handle embodiment has reinforcement and scarring-preventing spacers adapted for press-fit assembly. Clip-on attachment and other structure provide plier sections. A container provides advantageous "T"-handle facility for boring with the system, protrusive head pivotal fasteners facilitate scraping operation, and novel storage provisions are described.
Claims18
In a system of folding pocket tool of the type having:
- a knife blade, first and second substantially "U"-section paired handles pivotally attached to the knife blade and positionable for selectively enclosing therebetween and for exposing said knife blade, means for centering the knife blade relative to said first and second handles, means for securing detachably as part of said system any of a plurality of material working implements such as a saw blade, and the knife blade having a substantially square-section portion at an end thereof, the improvement comprising:
- said means for securing including a pivotal block with a bifurcated end on said first handle for passing through an aperture in a material working implement and a pin attached to said second handle in position for passing into said bifurcate end and holding said material working implement between said first and second handles, and means for centering said material working implement between said handles.
In a system of folding pocket tool of the type having a knife blade, substantially "U"-section paired handles pivotally attached to the knife blade and positionable for selectively enclosing therebetween and for exposing said knife blade, means for centering the knife blade relative to said handles, means for securing as part of said system any of a plurality of material-working implements such as a saw blade, and the knife blade having a substantially square-section portion at an end thereof, the improvement comprising said means for securing including a pivotal block on a said handle and having means for detachably holding a saw balde by an aperture in the saw blade, means for centering said saw blade between said handles, said means for centering said saw blade comprising first and second blade centerers, each fixed to one of said handles and spaced for receiving therebetween a portion of a material-working implement held by said pivotal block, the folding pocket tool having a wire cutter protrusion extending from an outer curved portion of at least one of said "U"-section paired handles, and means for forming a plier section, comprising a reduced portion forming a flat along at least one of said handles at said outer curved portion of the "U"-section from which said protrusion extends.
In a system of folding pocket tool of the type having a knife blade, substantially "U"-section paired handles pivotally attached to the knife blade and positionable for selectively enclosing therebetween and for exposing said knife blade, means for centering the knife blade relative to said handles, means for securing as part of said system any of a plurality of material-working implements such as a saw blade, and the knife blade having a substantially square-section portion at an end thereof, the improvement comprising:
- said means for securing including a pivotal block on a said handle and having means for detachably holding a saw blade by an aperture in the saw blade, means for centering said saw blade between said handles, said means for centering said saw blade comprising first and second blade centerers, each fixed to one of said handles and spaced for receiving therebetween a portion of a material-working implement held by said pivotal block, and means for turning said system as in boring, including a container having means for attachment transverse to the knife blade at a hole adjacent to said square-section potion in the knife blade.
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