Patent ID: 7886442

Claim:
A pocket knife for measuring a weight of a load suspended therefrom, the pocket knife comprising: a body; at least one cutting tool or blade positioned and configured to be folded out of the body; a side cover of the body covering at least one side of the at least one cutting tool or blade; at least three mounting spindles positioned and configured to foldably secure the at least one cutting tool or blade to the body and operable to lock the cutting tool in a folded-in or folded-out position with respect to the body; a measuring sensor positioned at the body and operable to measure the weight; and a transmission arrangement configured to pivot about one spindle of the at least three mounting spindles; a weighing element mounted to the body such that the weighing element is foldable out of the body, the weighing element being configured to receive the load and to transmit to the transmission arrangement in a first force direction the weight of the load; and the transmission arrangement configured to change a force direction of the load from the first force direction to a torque force rotating about the one spindle by the pivoting about the one spindle when the weighing element receives the load, wherein the measuring sensor is operatively connected to the weighing element by the transmission arrangement for transmitting the torque force as the weight of the load directly to the measuring sensor.