Patent ID: 7028406

Claim:
A knife comprising: an elongated body having a front end formed with a transversely directed holding face and a rear end, the body being formed between its ends with a transversely extending pivot and with a longitudinally extending guide; a blade fittable with the body holding face in a position projecting longitudinally forward from the body front end; a rocker carried on the pivot and having forward of the pivot a holding face confronting the body holding face and rearward of the pivot a pair of transversely confronting inner faces, the rocker being pivotal between a closed position with its holding face closely juxtaposed with the body holding face and pressing the blade against the body holding face and an open position with its holding face spaced from the blade and body holding face; and a slide having a front end engageable between the rocker inner faces, the slide being displaceable longitudinally along the guide in the body between one end position engaging one of the rocker inner faces and pivoting the rocker into the open position and an opposite end position bearing on the other of the rocker inner faces and holding the rocker in the closed position.