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US 8,021,216 B1Granted
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.
Claims14
A field dressing knife comprising:
- a handle-having a longitudinal axis extending through a front end and a butt end;
- a blade operatively attached to the handle, the 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, the blade having a longitudinal axis extending through the rear end thereof and through the tip, the blade alternatively having a first fixed position wherein the longitudinal axis of the blade and the longitudinal axis of the handle are substantially parallel or identical and a second fixed position with respect to each other wherein the longitudinal axis of the blade is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle;
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- the handle having a short position and a long position in at least the first fixed position thereof, the blade being closer to the butt-end of the handle in the short position than in the long position thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.