Patent ID: 8015643

Claim:
An emergency escape tool for escaping a motor vehicle, comprising: (a) a body including a handle portion and cutting portion, the body fashioned from a generally symmetric housing, the body including a handle portion and a cutting portion, the handle portion and the cutting portion being generally elongated and being spaced in a generally parallel relationship and being connected by two connecting members that connect between the opposite ends of the handle portion and the cutting portion, (b) the handle portion adapted for grasping by the hand of an adult person and including two window breaking elements each having a pointed distal end and a proximate end which is securely fixed to one of the opposite ends of the handle portion thereby presenting two opposite window breaking points that project outwardly in opposite directions at the opposite ends of the handle portion, the window breaking elements sufficiently hard and sharp to shatter tempered motor vehicle window glass when swung by a user so as to cause one of the window breaking elements to strike the surface of the tempered motor vehicle window glass, (c) the cutting portion including oppositely directed fingers that are disposed on an outside surface of the cutting portion, each finger and the outside surface of the cutting portion defining a cutting slot that extends from a closed end to an open end, the cutting portion further including a cutting blade fixed at the closed end of each cutting slot, each cutting slot adapted to receive and guide a seat belt strap toward the cutting blade for cutting and each of the cutting blades sufficiently sharp and strong to cut through a motor vehicle seat belt strap.