Patent ID: 9205568
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
1. A cutter apparatus comprising: a housing with a blade carrier configured for holding a blade in multiple different cutting edge orientations in relation to the housing, the cutting edge orientations including a pair of cutting edge orientations that are mirror images of each other; and a handle coupled to the housing via an engagement interface including an interior interface on one of the handle and the housing and a bearing on the other of the handle and the housing cooperating with the interior interface and configured to allow a user of the cutter apparatus to selectively interfit together the housing and the handle in multiple different cutter apparatus configurations including a pair of configurations in which the handle is rotatably repositionable in relation to the housing about a rotation axis or vice versa, wherein the rotation axis extends longitudinally in a length direction of the cutter apparatus, and with cutting edge orientations that are mirror images of each other in relation to the handle to accommodate ambidextrous operation of the cutter apparatus.