Patent ID: 6907668
Filing Date: 2005-06-21
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
1. A utility knife comprising: a main elongated housing half formed with a transversely throughgoing aperture, having a flat face, and formed on the flat face with a peripheral annular array of transversely projecting hooks each having an outer end with a hook edge directed back toward the flat face; a secondary elongated housing half geometrically similar to the main housing half, having a flat face, and formed with a peripheral annular array like the array of the main half of transversely throughgoing holes opening at the respective face and each having a ledge directed transversely away from the respective face, the halves being engageable together at their faces with the hooks projecting into the holes and being relatively shiftable parallel to the faces when thus engaged to hook the hook edges in an assembled position over the respective ledges, the secondary half being formed with an aperture like the aperture of the first half and directly transversely aligned therewith in the assembled position; a retaining member snugly engaged in and through the aligned apertures and holding the halves in the assembled position; and a blade between the halves and projecting longitudinally from the housing halves.