Field dressing knife
OwnerHarold J. Mooreinventor
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Abstract
A field dressing knife suitable for all aspects of field dressing small and large game is disclosed. Various novel aspects of the knife include: a large butt-end of the handle and a groove near the butt-end of the handle, both to spread the normal stress over a larger surface area when striking the butt-end of the handle with a free hand for splitting pelvis and brisket bones; and a configurable handle, permitting the double-edged field dressing knife to be used in knife mode or in a hatchet mode.
Claims11
A method of field dressing small and large game carcasses, including severing bone and cartilage, using a knife comprising a handle having a butt-end and a blade having a tip, the blade having a first thickness for strength and tapering to a second thickness at one edge to be as thin as reasonably possible for cutting, said tip having at least one thickness that is closer to the second thickness than to the first thickness of the blade, said method comprising:
- configuring the knife handle butt-end with a larger surface area than a cross-sectional area of a midsection of the knife handle;
- arranging a longitudinal axis of the handle to be substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the blade;
- placing the tip of the blade to a bone;
- striking the butt-end of the handle with a free hand to drive the tip into the bone;
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- wherein the configuring of the knife handle butt-end with a larger surface area comprises configuring the knife blade handle butt-end with a surface area of between 1.35 and 10 square inches.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.