Patent ID: 9409299
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B26B

Claim Text:
1. A knife comprising: a housing having a front end and a rear end and extending longitudinally therebetween; a longitudinally shiftable actuator; a blade holder carrying a blade movable longitudinally on the housing by the actuator between at least one safety rear-end position and at least one cutting front-end position, the blade on the blade holder being inside the housing in the safety rear-end position and projecting from the housing in the cutting front-end position; a spring attached to the housing and operatively engaged to a first entrainment formation, the spring biasing the blade holder into one of the end positions; and a second entrainment formation is operatively engaged with the blade holder or the longitudinally shiftable actuator, the second entrainment formation being releasably engageable with the first entrainment formation such that the first entrainment formation is moved by the second entrainment formation, the blade holder being movable longitudinally from the safety rear-end position, with disengagement of the first and second entrainment formations, and out of the rear end of the housing for separation of the blade from the holder.