Folding hunting-knife.

Application filed December 17,1903. Serial No, 185,501. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Milton H. Rowland, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gladstone, in the county of Delta and State 5 of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Hunting-Knives, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to folding huntingknives and is an improvement on the huntingio knife set forth in Letters Patent No. 728,416, of May 19, 1903.

The object of the present invention is the provision of improvements in the handle and guard of the folding hunting-knife set forth 15 inPatentNo. 728,416 aforesaid, whereby when the blade is closed the handle and guard will be securely locked against any possibility of folding, and, further, to provide for an improved manner of locking the guard and han20 file when the blade is open to prevent any possibility of accidental closing of the blade.

Another object is to generally improve the knife, insure security when opened or closed, and cheapen the cost of production.

Having the foregoing and other not specifically-mentioned objects in view, the invention consists of those improved and novel combinations and adaptations of parts hereinafter fully described, and recited in the ap3° pended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the knife when closed; Fig. 2, a side view of the knife, when open; Fig. 3, an edge view; Fig. 4, an enlarged detail per35 spective view, with certain parts shown in dotted lines, of the joint between the handle and guard and disclosing the lock; Fig. 5, a section on line x x of Fig. 1; Fig. 6, a section on line y y of Fig. 1; Fig. 7, a section on line 4° z 2 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 8 a section on line a a of Fig. 1.

The handle 1 and guard 2 are made of double sheet metal, substantially U-shaped in crosssection, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, to receive 45 the blade 3, which is pivoted at 4 between the sides of the handle. A double cross-guard 5 is pivoted to the blade at 6, substantially as disclosed in Patent No. 728,416, said crossguard being adapted to abut the end of the handle when the blade is open and to lie 50 against the edge of the handle when the blade is closed.

The handle 1 and guard 2 are connected by a rule-joint 7, providing for the extension of the guard into alinement with the handle or 55 the folding of the guard over the handle into substantial coincidence therewith.

The handle is provided with a slit or kerf, forming a locking-tongue 8, having the head 9, said tongue and head normally lying so that 60 the guard can be readily folded on the handle to embrace the latter; but said locking-tongue is so arranged that when the blade is folded into the handle and guard it presses the locking-tongue aside and causes it to engage with 65 a shoulder 10 on the guard, thereby preventing any movement or folding of the guard while the blade is closed.

Notches 11 are made on opposite sides of the handle 1 adjacent the cross-guard, and the 70 extreme corners on the free end of the guard are turned slightly inwardly at 12 and are adapted to snap into these notches when the guard is folded over the handle to lock the blade in open position. 75

Obviously the guard may be provided with pieces of horn or other material commonly used in knives, and the guard and handle are not necessarily each formed of a single piece of sheet metal, as they could be made with side 80 pieces and a separate back.