US 4,819,289 AGranted

Rifle field service tool

AssigneeCamillus Cutlery Co.

InventorPhilip W. Gibbs

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Abstract

A hand tool including a handle portion and a substantially flat blade having a plurality of curvilinear configurations spaced about the peripheral outline thereof for cooperatively engaging certain portions of a rifle to perform various operations thereon. The blade is attached at one end to the handle portion, preferably with a pivotal connection permitting opening and closing movement in the nature of a folding pocket knife. The blade includes a squared end serving as a screwdriver tip on the end opposite the pivotally mounted end, a convex curved portion between two linear portions on one longitudinal edge, and an outwardly projecting tip or pin adjoining a concave, curved portion on the other longitudinal edge serving as a spanner wrench. Each of these three portions of the blade is engageable with one or more portions of conventional rifles, and/or auxiliary equipment used therewith, to assist in adjustment, assembly, disassembly, or the like.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A hand tool for assisting in field servicing a firearm of conventional design, said tool comprising:

(a) an elongated handle portion extending along an axis between front and rear end portions;
(b) a substantially flat blade having a proxal end attached to said front end portion of said handle and extending therefrom along said axis to a distal end, said blade including:
(i) a forward, linear edge substantially perpendicular to said axis and having a predetermined width;
(ii) first and second longitudinal edges extending from said forward edge to said proxal end, each of said first and second edges including a first, linear portion extending from said forward edge perpendicularly thereto and parallel to one another, whereby said first linear portions are spaced from one another by said predetermined width;
(iii) a convex edge portion of said first edge, curved outwardly from said axis, and extending from said first linear portion of said first edge toward said proxal end;
(iv) a second linear portion of said first edge extending from said convex edge portion to said proxal end substantially parallel to said axis;
(v) a concave edge portion of said second longitudinal edge having a first portion curved inwardly toward said axis and extending from said first linear portion of said second longitudinal edge toward said proxal end, and a second portion curved inwardly toward said proxal end and extending from said first portion of said concave edge portion to a terminal end spaced farther from said axis than said first, linear portion of said second longitudinal edge;
(vi) a blunt tip directed toward said distal end on said second longitudinal edge of said blade at the terminus of said second portion of said concave edge portion;
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(vii) a terminating edge portion of said second longitudinal edge extending from said blunt tip to said proxal end of said blade.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.