Patent ID: 8590163

Claim:
A hand-held, rotary fabric cutter comprising: a cutter handle having a handle interior surface and a handle exterior surface; a blade bolt; a rotary blade attached to the handle by the blade bolt; a longitudinally and laterally retractable blade guard attached to the handle by the blade bolt, the blade guard having a right guard and a left guard, the right guard and the left guard being pivotally connected by a guard pivot joint; and a slide knob projecting from the handle through a slide knob groove, the slide knob being connected to the right and left guards and the slide knob providing for a user to retract and extend the blade guard longitudinally and laterally by sliding the slide knob in the slide knob groove, the guard pivot joint and contact of the blade guard with the handle interior surface providing for the longitudinal and lateral retraction and extension of the right guard and the left guard as the user slides the slide knob between a slide knob guarded position and a slide knob unguarded position.