Compound tools – Cutter combined with other tool or tools
Patent
1993-10-25
1995-03-21
Smith, James G.
Compound tools
Cutter combined with other tool or tools
7144, 30143, 30351, B26B 1100
Patent
active
053983602
ABSTRACT:
An improved survival tool comprising a large knife having double-edged recurved blade with a chisel tip and ergonomically-designed hilt and full tang and having a pair of ergonomically-designed releasably attachable scales covering the hilt and tang forming the finger guards/grips and handle of said tool, said blade being formed with a sharpened edge extending along one entire side of said recurved blade and having a false edge on the opposite side of said blade extending rearwardly from said chisel tip to a flattened portion at the belly of said blade which serves as a hammer-anvil or palm rest and having a serrated or saw-toothed concave section extending rearwardly from said flat portion of said blade to said hilt and having an elongated opening formed axially of said blade to allow insertion of a plurality of fingers to form a hand-hold, or function as a spanner or tool holder, and an opening to 1) releasably attach said tool to a sheath having a friction-fit pin that is part of said sheath, and 2) to accept a cross guard for conversion of said tool to a trident-lance by detaching said scales and releasably attaching a shaft having a bifurcated end to the said full tang.
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patent: 4442559 (1984-04-01), Collins
patent: 4669140 (1987-06-01), Miceli
patent: 4817221 (1989-04-01), Ryan
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