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US 9,956,695 B2Granted
Spring back safety and film cutter
AssigneePacific Handy Cutter, Inc.
InventorsYen-Chao Chung, Joseph P. Garavaglia, Glen Kanemoto, Markus Gropl, Dave Puglisi, Mark Marinovich
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Abstract
A cutter apparatus includes a housing shaped to be hand-held, a slider configured to support a front blade, the slider being mechanically coupled to the housing and configured to be moved longitudinally along the housing, and a blade guard mechanically coupled to the housing and configured to be extended and retracted adjacent to the front end of the housing, wherein the slider and the blade guard are configured to move in tandem.
Claims22
A cutter apparatus comprising:
- a housing shaped to be hand-held;
- a slider configured to support a front blade, the slider being supported within and repositionable along the housing;
- a blade guard supported within the housing and configured to be extended and retracted adjacent to the front end of the housing;
- an auxiliary tool configured to be deployable from a back end of the housing;
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- an auxiliary tool receptacle which is pivotally secured to and pivotally repositionable in relation to the housing to deploy the auxiliary tool, the auxiliary tool being detachably secured to the auxiliary tool receptacle;
- wherein the auxiliary tool includes a latch member which snap fits into a complementary recess in the auxiliary tool receptacle, the latch when so engaged with the recess being accessible to a user of the cutter apparatus when the auxiliary tool is deployed but not accessible when the auxiliary tool is in its closed position secured within the housing.
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