Double headed knife

• US 10,668,638 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2019
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eezycut, LLC
• Original Assignee: Eezycut, LLC
• Inventors: Mayes, Laura Jane
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phong H
• Application Number:
  US16/240,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20190176356A1
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 30151, 30162, 30280, 30286-291
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 29/02 Guards or sheaths for knives
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 5/00 Hand knives with one or more detachable blades

Abstract

A knife has a first head and a second head. The first head has a first pair of arms and a first pair of knife edges. Each arm of the first pair of arms hangs over a different knife edge of the first pair of knife edges. Similarly, a second head has a second pair of arms and a second pair of knife edges. Each arm of the second pair of arms hangs over a different knife edge of the second pair of knife edges. The first head is connected to the second head.

Claims

1. A knife comprising:

a knife body adapted and configured to receive a blade having a straight cutting edge, the knife body having a head and a tail opposite of the head, the knife body having a side extending between the head and the tail, the side of the knife body having a slot with an opening extending through the side into the knife body, the slot defining an arm of the knife body, the blade being mountable with the knife body and stationary with respect to the arm such that;

(i) the straight cutting edge of the blade is on a side of the slot opposite the arm, (ii) the arm is opposite the cutting edge of the blade and overhangs the blade, (iii) the arm has a directing edge opposing the cutting edge of the blade, and (iv) the directing edge has a region that is convex and angled toward the cutting edge of the blade;

wherein the convex and angled region of the directing edge is spaced from the opening; and

wherein the knife body is configured such that when blade is mounted in the knife body, the straight cutting edge of the blade has a first region facing the overhanging arm and a second region extending beyond the overhanging arm so that the second region is exposed in the opening.

2. The knife of claim 1 wherein the slot defines a handle portion of the knife body spaced from the arm by the slot.

3. The knife of claim 2 wherein the handle portion partially obstructs the second region of the straight cutting edge of the blade.

4. The knife of claim 1 further comprising a hole formed in the head of the knife body, the hole receiving a strap coupled to the knife body.

5. The knife of claim 4 further comprising a sheath, the sheath having a hollow interior volume adapted and configured to receive at least a portion of the knife, the sheath having an outer surface, the outer surface of the sheath being adapted and configured to releasably attach to the strap coupled to the knife body.

6. The knife of claim 5 wherein the strap has one of hook and loop material and the sheath outer surface has the other of hook and loop material.

7. The knife of claim 5 wherein the sheath comprises at least one piece of material folded over to define at least in part the hollow interior volume of the sheath.

8. The knife of claim 1 wherein the overhang has an internal, v-shaped groove.

9. The knife of claim 1 wherein the arm has region that is straight relative to the straight cutting edge of the blade mounted in the knife body.

10. The knife of claim 1 wherein the slot extends toward the tail of the knife body.

11. The knife of claim 1 wherein the knife body has a second side extending between the head and the tail, the second side of the knife body has a slot extending through the second side into the knife body, the slot of the second side defines a second arm of the knife body, the knife body being configured such that when the blade is mounted in the knife body, the blade is stationary with respect to the second arm, the blade has a second straight cutting edge on a side of the second slot opposite the second arm, the second arm is opposite the second straight cutting edge of the blade and overhangs the blade, the second arm has a directing edge opposing the second straight cutting edge of the blade, the directing edge of the second arm has a region that is convex and angled toward the second straight cutting edge of the blade.