Multitool incising attachment method and apparatus
AssigneeSOG Specialty Knives and Tools, LLC
InventorSpencer Frazer
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Abstract
A multi-tool attachment having a configuration that is well-suited for incising material and performing various operations where two incising members are positioned on a main portion of the tool and the cutting-edge surfaces are in close engagement with one another at an interface point where the two blades meet in forceful engagement with one another.
Claims24
A folding attachment adapted to be positioned on a handle, the handle having longitudinal and transverse axes, the folding attachment comprising:
- a) an attachment portion having a pivot attachment that is pivotally attached to a longitudinally outward portion of the handle,
- b) an operating portion having a base and an extension, the base having a base lateral surface, and the extension having an extension lateral surface,
- c) incising members comprising:
- i. a base incising member having a laterally inward surface that is fixedly attached to the base at a longitudinally inward connection portion and attached at a longitudinally outward portion and
- ii. an extension incising member having a base attachment region at a longitudinally outward connection portion and an extension attachment region at a longitudinally inward connection portion
- d) whereas the base is offset from the extension in the lateral direction where the base lateral surface and the extension lateral surface are offset the approximate lateral width distance of one of the incising members where a laterally inward surface of the base incising member is in engagement with the base lateral surface and a laterally inward surface of the extension incising member is in engagement with the extension lateral surface.
A multi-tool having a handle and a clenching portion, whereby positioned on the handle away from the clenching portion is an incising attachment pivotally attached thereto, the incising attachment comprising a base and an extension defining an open region thereinbetween and the base and extension having lateral surfaces that are not in the same plane, a base incising member having a longitudinally inward portion and a longitudinally outward portion and having a laterally inward surface adapted to engage the lateral surfaces of the base, the base incising member further having a edge surface position toward the open region, an extension incising member having a portion attached to the lateral surface of the extension and another portion attached to a laterally outward area of the incising attachment adjacent to the longitudinally outward portion of the base incising member, the extension incising member having an edge surface that is adapted to be positioned adjacent to the edge surface of the base incising member and forcefully engaged thereto.
A method of cutting material comprising retrieving a handle member and pivotally extracting a cutting element therefrom, positioning the material between an extension and base member of the cutting attachment where a base incising member and an extension incising member are rigidly attached thereto not mobile with respect to one another and edge portions of the base incising member and the extension incising member are in lateral proximal engagement to one another where a material open region which provides an opening for the material to be cut to be positioned adjacent to the base incising member and the extension incising member is positioned outwardly from the central axis of a folding knife and the main lateral width of the handle member is sufficiently narrow that other utensils can be positioned in the handle region of the folding knife, and wherein the base incising member is offset from the extension incising member in the lateral direction.
A cutter attachment adapted to be attached to a multitool in the handle portion, the cutter attachment comprising:
- a) a base structure having a connection portion pivotally connected to the handle portion, the structure comprising a base and an extension,
- b) a base incising member having first and second ends attached to the base,
- c) an extension incising member having a first end attached to the extension and a second end attached at the same proximal location of the second end of the base incising member, wherein the base incising member is offset from the extension incising member in the lateral direction,
- d) whereas the cutter attachment is constructed where the first and second ends of the base incising member are rigidly attached to the base member and the first end of the extension incising member is rigidly attached to the extension member and the second end is rigidly attached to the base whereby the structural integrity of the base structure is greater with the first and second ends attached thereto and the lateral width of the cutter attachment is such that it is adapted to fit in the handle portion of the multitool.
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