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US 6,578,271 B1Granted
Gutting knife
OwnerLeopold Macekinventor
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Abstract
A gutting knife including a blade with two forward extensions that define a slot between them and a peripheral cutting edge defined around the sides and bottom of the slot. A first extension has a spike tip and a cutting edge along its outside. A second extension has a blunt tip or bulge which does not cut. A meander pathway along the second extension into the slot. Saw teeth into the slot on the first extension. A recess on the outside of the second extension is inclined rearwardly and includes a cutting edge. A handle at the rear of the knife blade.
Claims11
A gutting knife comprising
- a knife blade comprised of a first and a second forwardly extending extensions which are shaped and positioned to define a slot which separates the extensions, and the slot having a closed end, the extensions having opposed inwardly facing edges, the slot having and being defined by a peripheral sharpened cutting edge which extends along the inwardly facing edges of the extensions, and the peripheral sharpened cutting edge also extends to and about the closed in of the slot;
- the first extension having an outwardly facing sharpened cutting edge ending at a most forward end of said knife;
- the second extension having a forward end with a tip which is blunted to be less likely to cut as the blade is moved forward;
- the first extension having a toothing portion across from the blunted tip of the second extension;
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- the first extension having a portion diverging away from said second extension and said slot, said portion comprising a sharpened edge from said toothing portion to said most forward end of said knife.
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