Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.

Melissa C Yale

Hollan A Tsuda

Benjamin C Rivera

Glenn A Klecker

Nathan E Knight

Charles F Goodrich

Blair Scott Barnes

Reinhard Srajer

Hollan Akio Tsuda

A multipurpose folding hand tool including a tool holder permitting exchanges of blades. The tool may include a folding scissors including a spring that is moved into operative engagement with a scissors handle to open the scissors handles apart from each other only as the scissors approaches an extended, operative position with respect to the handle of the folding land tool, within which it may be stowed. A resilient grip member is incorporated in one of the handles of the folding multipurpose hand tool. A wire cutter and a crimping tool are located on pliers jaw tangs, between the pliers pivot and the foldable handles of the tool.

Multipurpose tool including holder for replaceable tool blades

A multipurpose folding hand tool including a tool holder permitting exchanges of blades. The tool may include a folding scissors including a spring that is moved into operative engagement with a scissors handle to open the scissors handles apart from each other only as the scissors approaches an extended, operative position with respect to the handle of the folding hand tool, within which it may be stowed. A resilient grip member is incorporated in one of the handles of the folding multipurpose hand tool. A wire cutter and a crimping tool are located on pliers jaw tangs, between the pliers pivot and the foldable handles of the tool.

A folding multipurpose hand tool including a pivoted latch that engages side walls of a handle and a base of a folding tool member to hold the folding tool member in a selection position. A separate safety interlock latch keeps a folding blade stowed in a handle when another tool is moved from a first position with respect to the handle. A tool bit holder securely holds and drives reduced thickness tool bits that can also be engaged in and driven by conventional sockets having a regular hexagonal shape.

Multipurpose folding tool with tool bit holder and blade lock

Folding multipurpose hand tool

A hand tool is provided that includes a handle and one or more implements that are movable relative to the handle. The hand tool may include a first implement that is rotatable within a plane and a second implement that is slidable along an axis that may also lie within that same plane. The implements may include a variety of tools or blades, such as knife blades and cutting hooks. The hand tool may also include locks and/or catches to bias or lock one or more of the implements in retracted and extended positions. The handle may define a groove or other recess for holding an instrument such as a sharpening tool.

Hand tool

Symmetric handle with margin inserts, for a folding multipurpose tool

Folded multipurpose hand tool

Folding tool including pliers and interior spacers

Handle for a folding hand tool

Folded multipurpose hand tool with angular end profile

Handle for a folding hand tool with opposing channels

Folding tool including pliers

Handle for a folding multipurpose hand tool, with margin inserts and latch lever

Belt-worn carrier for a folding tool

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Melissa C Yale