US3755893A - Electrician{40 s knife - Google Patents

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US3755893A
US3755893A US00186282A US3755893DA US3755893A US 3755893 A US3755893 A US 3755893A US 00186282 A US00186282 A US 00186282A US 3755893D A US3755893D A US 3755893DA US 3755893 A US3755893 A US 3755893A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26B—HAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B1/00—Hand knives with adjustable blade; Pocket knives
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  • ABSTRACT l l Foreign Application Priority Data
  • An electricians knife usable for wiring is disclosed in Feb. 27. l97l Japan 46/12520 (utility model) which the handle portion thereof comprises an integral thick insulation and a Substantially flat tube which [52] U.S. Cl. 30/154 serves as a sheath for receiving a cutting blade adapted [51 Int. Cl 1326b 3/06 o be xi lly lidable therein bu inseparable therefrom.
  • the present invention relates generally to a cutting instrument for use in electric wire distributing work, and more particularly to such a sheath type electricians knife that is mainly usable for stripping insulation from electric wires and cables or cutting them.
  • the knife comprises a handle portion including a thick insulation for protecting the user from electric shock and a substantially flat metallic tube which serves as a sheath for storing the cutting blade which is adapted to be axially slidable therein but inseparable therefrom.
  • the cutting blade can be easily pulled out in the axial direction of the sheath by fingers, but once pulled out it is held stable by means of a pair of support pins and a stopper projection formed on a plate spring unless a pressing force is given thereto.
  • the handle portion must be provided longitudinally at one side with a slot for receiving the cutting blade; consequently, the ten dency is generally evident that undesired electro conductive foreign matters produced during the operation and the moisture existing around a labor site are easily allowed to come in through said slot thereby forming an unexpected electrical connection causing dreadful electric shock.
  • the conventional sheath type electricians knives are rarely used in the field since they generally comprise a haft portion, a blade portion rigidly embedded or secured to said haft portion, and a sheath portion independently separable from said blade portion so that the sheath portion which, when in use, is generally separated from the unsheathed blade portion often gets lost.
  • the present invention aims at eliminating all the above-mentioned defects by providing a novel and useful electricians knife that comprises a handle portion including a substantially flat tube servable as a sheath for slidably receiving a blade, and a thick insulation covering said sheath so that even if an electrician happens to work at a hot line charged with high voltage, he is safely protected against electric shock.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide an improved sheath type electrician s knife in which the foremost end of the cutting blade is thick and round, having a hole bored therethrough through or a pair of concavities formed therein making it possible for an electrician to easily pull the cutting blade out of the sheath with his fingers engaged in said hole or concavities.
  • a still further object of the invention is to provide an improved sheath type electrician s knife having a nonslip head provided adjacent the round corner of the foremost end of the blade so that an electrician can easily push back the cutting blade into the sheath by pressing said non-slip head against a surface of any hard object accessible to him.
  • a yet further object of the invention is to provide an improved sheath type electrician s knife wherein stability of the pulled-out cutting blade is insured by a pair of support pins and a stopper projection formed on a plate spring for engaging with a recess formed in the back edge of the blade.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of .an electricians knife in accordance with the present invention, wherein the cutting blade is shown with its full length pulled out of the sheath;
  • FIG. 2 is an elevational view taken partly in section of the knife of FIG. 1, showing in phantom lines the positional relation assumed by the cutting blade when the non-slip head formed on the foremost end of the cutting blade is forcibly pressed;
  • FIG. 3 is likewise an elevation taken partly in section of the knife of FIG. 1, with the cutting blade fully sheathed;
  • FIG. 4 illustrates in detail the elemental parts of the engaging mechanism formed with a stopper projection and a recess in the back edge of the blade.
  • the electricians knife in accordance with the present invention comprises a handle portion generally designated by reference character A which includes a substantially flat metallic tube 10 servable as a sheath for slidably storing a cutting blade generally designated by reference character B and a thick insulation 11 covering said tube or sheath l0.
  • Said sheath has a pair of opposed narrow walls 10a, 10a, a pair of opposed comparatively broad walls 10b, 10b, and a bottom wall 10c.
  • a plate spring 12 which extends slopewise slightly upwardly away from said bottom wall 100 and is secured at one end to said wall 10a adjacent the bottom wall We by snapping its foremost bent portion 12a into a small slit (not shown in the drawing) provided in the wall 100 so that the back 18 of the cutting blade B is normally kept in an upwardly pressed state by the plate spring 12 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • said bottom wall 100 may be omitted.
  • the cutting blade B thus pulled out of the sheath 10 can be completely prevented from, the undesired counter-clockwise swinging movement, which otherwise may give rise to an excessive decrease of the cutting effect of the blade B, by means of a pair of support pins 15, 16 rigidly fixed in opposed relation with each other adjacent the opening end of the sheath W, with the outer pin 16 fixed opposite the blade back edge 18 and the inner pin 15 opposite the cutting edge 19.
  • said inner pin 15 serves to keep the blade B unmoved thus securing the stability of the cutting blade B through the full course of the cutting operation.
  • the cutting blade B when a pressing force is applied to the back edge 18 in the direction shown by an arrow in FIG. 2, the cutting blade B is urged to move about the inner pin 15 in said direction or the clockwise direction while at the same time the plate spring 12 is pressed downwardly by the rearmost end of the back edge 18 until it reaches the particular position shown in FIG. 4, wherein the stopper projection 13 of the plate spring 12 is caused to go out of the recess 14 of the back edge 18 with the result that the cutting blade B is completely released from the engaged relation with the plate spring 12 and is permitted to slide back into the sheath 10. Therefore, the cutting blade B can be stored back into the sheath 10, merely by pushing the blade B in the axial direction, with said stopper projection 13 disconnected from the recess 14 as is shown in FIG. 4.
  • the sheath has its outer surface covered with a comparatively thick insulation 11 preferably made from a non-conductive synthetic resin with the exception of its opening end portion whereby a user is safely protected against possible electric shock even when working at a hot line.
  • a hole 17 may be provided at one end of the insulation so as to suspend the knife on a users belt by passing a string on the belt through hole 17.
  • the foremost end of the cutting blade B is provided with a hole 20 so as to help a user pull out the blade B from the sheath 10 with the hole 20 between his finger tips.
  • a hole 20 so as to help a user pull out the blade B from the sheath 10 with the hole 20 between his finger tips.
  • it is also possible to secure this pulling effect by replacing said hole 20 with a concavity or indentation (not shown) that will serve as a finger slip preventing means.
  • said foremost end of the cutting blade B is preferably formed into a semi-circular shape having a non-slip head 21 provided with a plurality of notches or indentation 22 by means of which said head 21 is effectively pressed against a surface of any hard object accessible to him in order to disengage the stopper projection 13 out of the recess 14 formed in the blade B.
  • the cutting blade B is inwardly curved along its edge 19 as illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 4 inclusive so that the cutting edge 19 is kept out of touch with the inner support pin in the course of the axial movement thereof, consequently obviating a fear that the edge 19 may become dulled.
  • the present invention provides a simple and inexpensive electricians knife characterized in that the sheath portion is covered with a thick insulation and the cutting blade is slidable longitudinally thereof within the sheath portion, thus always protecting a user from electric shock and preventing him from hurting himself.
  • An electricians knife comprising:
  • a handle including a substantially flat tube, open at one end, servable as a sheath, and an external insulation covering said sheath;
  • a cutting blade having a cutting edge, a back edge, a foremost end and a rearmost end, axially slidable within said sheath but inseparable therefrom;
  • an inner support pin fixedly secured adjacent the open end of said sheath on the inside thereof opposite the cutting edge of said cutting blade
  • said inner support pin being located relatively inwardly within said sheath with respect to said outer support pin so that when in operation said cutting blade is prevented from swinging about said outer support pin;
  • plate spring extending gradually upward in the direction of said open end of said sheath along the inner wall of said sheath opposite the back edge of said blade, said plate spring having one end fixedly secured to said sheath;
  • said cutting blade having its one end supported on said inner support pin against the resiliency of said plate spring when said recess means is engaged with said stopper projection so as to be slightly swingable about said inner support pin thereby to release the interlocked engagement of said stopper projection with said recess means.
  • said external insulation is made of nonconductive synthetic material.
  • said sheath is made of metal.
  • said cutting blade has a finger slip preventing means at the foremost end thereof.
  • said finger slip preventing means is in the form of a hole bored through said foremost end of said cutting blade.
  • Patent No. 3755893 Dated p mber 4, 1973 Inventor s Ka'tsuyuki NAGAKI It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:

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US7833130B1 (en) 2004-01-23 2010-11-16 Dwayne A Horvath Simulated edged weapon or toy with element actuated indicating device
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US20100011593A1 (en) * 2001-12-28 2010-01-21 Trbovich Jr Nick Bayonet with insulated extension rod
US7833130B1 (en) 2004-01-23 2010-11-16 Dwayne A Horvath Simulated edged weapon or toy with element actuated indicating device
US9162129B2 (en) 2012-04-17 2015-10-20 Dwayne A. Horvath Tactical training aids
US20180333881A1 (en) * 2017-05-16 2018-11-22 Barnel International, Inc. Saw sheath
US20240300127A1 (en) * 2021-01-07 2024-09-12 Daniel J. Vorhis Fixed blade knife with combined handle/sheath
US12441017B2 (en) * 2021-01-07 2025-10-14 Daniel J. Vorhis Fixed blade knife with combined handle/sheath

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