Patent ID: 6918183

Claim:
A knife comprising: a knife body having a top edge, a bottom edge, a proximal edge, a distal edge and a midsection between the top, bottom, proximal and distal edges, wherein the knife body has a slot extending at least a part of the way through the midsection along the length of the knife body, the slot extending all the way through the width of the knife body: a fixed knife blade extending from the bottom edge of the knife body and having left and rights sides; and a blade cover slidably mounted in the slot, the blade cover having at least one connecting portion that extends all the way through the slot and two downwardly extending side portions attached to the at least one connecting portion, wherein the blade cover is slidable within the slot between a first position where the two downwardly extending side portions cover the left and right sides of the blade and a second position where the two downwardly extending side portions do not cover the sides of the blade.