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.
Claims13
A field dressing knife, able to sever bone and cartilage, comprising 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, a handle rigidly attached to the blade the handle comprising a butt-end with a larger surface area than a cross sectional area, perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the handle, of any part of the handle except the butt-end, said enlarged surface area of the butt-end for striking with a hand, said enlarged surface area being between 1.35 and 10 square inches.
A method of configuring a field dressing knife able to sever bone and cartilage, comprising 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, a handle rigidly attached to the blade the handle comprising a butt-end with a larger surface area than a cross sectional area, perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the handle, of any part of the handle except a butt-end, said enlarged surface area of the butt-end for striking with a hand, said method comprising providing the field dressing knife handle butt-end with a surface area between 1.35 and 10 square inches.
A field dressing knife comprising:
- (a) A field dressing knife, able to sever bone and cartilage, comprising 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, a handle rigidly attached to the blade the handle comprising a butt-end with a larger surface area than a cross sectional area, perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the handle, of any part of the handle except the butt-end, said enlarged surface area of the butt-end for striking with a hand,
- (b) a guard-end;
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- (c) a butt-end comprising a surface area between 1.35 and 10 square inches.
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