Patent ID: 8099871

Claim:
A utility knife comprising: a multi-edged knife blade having a flat surface that defines a two-dimensional plane in space; and a substantially S-shaped handle for supporting the blade, said handle comprising a substantially S-shaped first member and a substantially S-shaped second member, wherein said first member is removably attached to said second member in order to create said substantially S-shaped handle and wherein said second member comprises a shoe portion and said first member comprises a tip portion configured to slide into said shoe portion and capture the knife blade, wherein one leg of the S-shape is a gripping portion and the other leg of the S-shape is a blade supporting portion, and said gripping portion is angulated in a fixed manner with respect to said blade such that said gripping portion is angulated away from and out of said two-dimensional plane, wherein the blade supporting portion comprises a substantially wedge-shaped channel in said second member adjacent said shoe portion, wherein said substantially wedge-shaped channel comprises a planar bottom surface and the knife blade is supported in a lower, off center position adjacent the planar bottom surface, and wherein the wedge-shaped channel is dimensioned for holding the knife blade at an angle between about 2° and 10° with respect to a bottom wall of the second member.