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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Joseph P. Garavaglia, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Brandon L. Spoelstra, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Markus E. Gropl, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Mark Marinovich, Rancho Sante Fe, CA (US);
Joseph P. Garavaglia, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Brandon L. Spoelstra, Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Markus E. Gropl, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Mark Marinovich, Rancho Sante Fe, CA (US);
PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A cutter apparatus includes a housing shaped to be hand-held, a blade holder configured to support a blade, and multiple actuators for extending the blade from the housing, the actuators including a safety actuator (e.g., a blade guard) that drives at least one of the other actuators while repositioning to extend the blade. The multiple actuators include, for example, a slider and a blade guard configured such that the slider when pushed forward repositions independently of the blade guard to extend the blade from the housing and such that the blade guard when pushed forward repositions the blade as the blade guard is deployed.