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US 8,127,452 B2Granted
Utility knife
AssigneePacific Handy Cutter, Inc.
InventorsJoe Garavaglia, Markus Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Abstract
A utility knife includes a handle, a blade carrier, and a blade depth adjustment assembly. The blade carrier is mechanically coupled to the handle and configured to support a blade. The blade depth adjustment assembly is mechanically coupled to the handle and configured to permit a user of the utility knife to reposition components of the blade depth adjustment assembly to select one of a plurality of blade depth positions which causes the blade carrier to be repositioned along the handle depending upon which of the blade depth positions is selected.
Claims10
A utility knife comprising:
- a handle;
- a blade carrier mechanically coupled to the handle, the blade carrier being configured to support a blade;
- a blade hood mechanically coupled to the handle facilitating manipulability of the blade hood to an extended position over the blade;
- a pushrod mechanically coupled to the blade hood, the pushrod including a protrusion that extends toward the blade carrier;
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- a blade release member including a button that extends through a slot in the handle, the blade release member being mechanically engaged with the blade carrier to slide there along when the button is moved along the slot, the blade release member including an upper portion that makes contact with the protrusion when the blade release member is moved along the slot such that the pushrod is repositioned within the handle and the blade hood is refracted from the extended position to allow the blade to be removed from the blade carrier.
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