Patents Assigned to Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.
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Patent number: 10093027Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing shaped to be hand-held, the housing including first and second handle portions shaped and/or adapted to interfit together, a blade holder configured to support a blade, and a lock/unlock mechanism for securing the handle portions together, the lock/unlock mechanism including multiple actuators operable for extending the blade from the housing, the actuators including a primary actuator coupled to the blade holder and repositionable in relation to the housing, and at least one auxiliary actuator including a first auxiliary actuator supported by and repositionable in relation to the first handle portion. The primary and auxiliary actuators are biased toward and/or repositionable to respective locations at which an aperture of the first auxiliary actuator coaligns or registers with an opening in the first handle portion in an unlock configuration that allows a user of the cutter apparatus to reposition/separate the handle portions from each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl, Chris Lung
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Patent number: 10093026Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing, a blade carrier configured to support a front blade, the blade carrier being coupled to and repositionable in relation to the housing, an auxiliary tool configured to be deployable from another portion of the housing, and a selector repositionable in relation to the housing and configured for mutually exclusively facilitating the user-controlled actions of setting a maximum blade depth to which the front blade is extendable from the housing and activating the auxiliary tool. The selector includes, for example, a biasing component for selectively engaging stop surfaces and a counter-biasing component configured to disengage the one or more biased engagement portions from the stop surfaces in response to a user of the cutter apparatus initiating an action of repositioning the selector along the path.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus E. Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Patent number: 9956695Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing shaped to be hand-held, a slider configured to support a front blade, the slider being mechanically coupled to the housing and configured to be moved longitudinally along the housing, and a blade guard mechanically coupled to the housing and configured to be extended and retracted adjacent to the front end of the housing, wherein the slider and the blade guard are configured to move in tandem.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Yen-Chao Chung, Joseph P. Garavaglia, Glen Kanemoto, Markus Gropl, Dave Puglisi, Mark Marinovich
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Patent number: 9840013Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing and a blade holder coupled to the housing, wherein the housing includes a distal portion (e.g., a blade storage compartment) that is both slidably and pivotally coupled to portions of the housing and configured to serve as a cover for the blade holder. The cutter apparatus can also include a cover release device configured to facilitate repositioning the cover between a locked position at which the cover is secured to the housing and a released position at which at least a portion of the cover is free to pivotally reposition away from the housing providing access to the blade holder.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus E. Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Publication number: 20170246747Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing sized to be hand-held, the housing including a channel and openings adjacent to the channel at three different sides of the housing, and a blade carrier sized to fit within and slide along the channel, the blade carrier including three engaging portions that extend from the openings such that a force bearing upon any of the portions can cause the blade carrier to slide along the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2016Publication date: August 31, 2017Applicant: Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.Inventor: G. Gerry Schmidt
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Patent number: 9676106Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus E. Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Patent number: 9676107Abstract: A utility knife includes a handle and a blade carrier mechanically coupled to the handle, the blade carrier being configured to support a blade. The utility knife also includes a blade hood mechanically coupled to the handle facilitating manipulability of the blade hood to an extended position over the blade, a pushrod mechanically coupled to the blade hood, and a blade release member including a button that extends through a slot in the handle, the blade release member being repositionable by moving the button along the slot, a portion of the blade release member within the handle coming into contact with a protrusion of the pushrod when the blade release member is moved along the slot such that the pushrod is repositioned within the handle and the blade hood is retracted from the extended position to allow the blade to be removed from the blade carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Markus Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Publication number: 20170081109Abstract: A blade dispenser apparatus includes a body, a blade receptacle coupled to and repositionable in relation to the body, a blade holder coupled to and repositionable in relation to the blade receptacle, and an actuator coupled to the blade holder, the actuator being deployable for repositioning of the blade holder to dispense a blade or for disengaging a portion of the blade receptacle from the body allowing a user of the blade dispenser to access the blade receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl
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Patent number: 9550301Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing, multiple tools mechanically coupled to the housing, at least one of the tools including a cutting device, and a slider and lock wheel mechanically coupled to the housing and configured to selectively release only one of the tools at a time from being secured within the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Glen Kanemoto, John Andrew Duval
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Patent number: 9539733Abstract: Pocket safety cutter devices include ergonomic blade housing and handle portions adapted to be safely folded together into compact closed configurations.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Dale E. Jennings, Glen Kanemoto, Yen-Chao Chung
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Patent number: 9492931Abstract: A utility knife includes a handle, a blade assembly secured to the handle, a blade cover mechanically coupled to the handle facilitating manipulability of the blade cover to an extended position over the blade assembly, and a slider that is repositionable along the handle to release the blade cover from the extended position, the slider being pivotally coupled to the blade assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: G. Gerry Schmidt, John Andrew Duval
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Publication number: 20160318195Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing with a blade carrier configured for holding a blade, and a handle coupled to the housing via an engagement interface configured to allow a user of the cutter apparatus to selectively interfit together the housing and the handle in multiple different cutter apparatus configurations, wherein the engagement interface includes a coupler configured to permit the housing and the handle to be repositioned further apart in a housing/handle reconfiguring mode in which the coupler permits the handle to be rotatably repositioned in relation to the housing or vice versa while substantially limiting longitudinal movement of the housing relative to the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: November 3, 2016Applicant: Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl, Chris Lung, Mark Marinovich
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Publication number: 20160288351Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing configured for gripping by a hand, a blade holder and/or blade coupled to the housing, a guard secured to the housing, and a handle coupled to the housing via an engagement interface configured to allow a user of the cutter apparatus to selectively interfit together the housing and the handle in multiple different cutter apparatus configurations including a pair of configurations in which the guard, in relation to each configuration, faces the blade from right and left sides, respectively, of the cutter apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Patent number: 9452540Abstract: A cutter system includes a cutter and a holster. The cutter includes a housing with two recessed portions on opposite sides thereof, the cutter being adapted to support a blade and to facilitate selectively extending the blade from or retracting the blade into the housing. The holster is shaped to receive the cutter in two different orientations corresponding to left- and right-handed use, respectively, the holster including an interior surface formed with protrusions on opposites sides thereof, the protrusions each being sized to fit into either of the recessed portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventor: G. Gerry Schmidt
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Publication number: 20160214264Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing shaped to be hand-held, a blade carrier repositionable in relation to the housing and configured to support a blade thereon, and multiple cut guides independently operable to drive the blade carrier for extending the blade from the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: July 28, 2016Applicant: Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl, Chris Lung
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Patent number: 9321578Abstract: A blade dispenser apparatus includes a body, a blade receptacle coupled to and repositionable in relation to the body, a blade holder coupled to and repositionable in relation to the blade receptacle, and an actuator coupled to the blade holder, the actuator being deployable for repositioning of the blade holder to dispense a blade or for disengaging a portion of the blade receptacle from the body allowing a user of the blade dispenser to access the blade receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl
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Patent number: 9205568Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing configured for gripping by a hand, a blade holder and/or blade coupled to the housing, a guard secured to the housing, and a handle coupled to the housing via an engagement interface configured to allow a user of the cutter apparatus to selectively interfit together the housing and the handle in multiple different cutter apparatus configurations including a pair of configurations in which the guard, in relation to each configuration, faces the blade from right and left sides, respectively, of the cutter apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus E. Gropl, Mark Marinovich
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Patent number: 9205569Abstract: A cutter apparatus includes a housing with a blade carrier configured for holding a blade, and a handle coupled to the housing via an engagement interface configured to allow a user of the cutter apparatus to selectively interfit together the housing and the handle in multiple different cutter apparatus configurations, wherein the engagement interface includes a coupler configured to permit the housing and the handle to be repositioned further apart in a housing/handle reconfiguring mode in which the coupler permits the handle to be rotatably repositioned in relation to the housing or vice versa while substantially limiting longitudinal movement of the housing relative to the handle.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl, Chris Lung, Mark Marinovich
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Patent number: D769691Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph L. Lutgen, Markus E. Gropl, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Joseph P. Garavaglia
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Patent number: D779301Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: PACIFIC HANDY CUTTER, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Garavaglia, Brandon L. Spoelstra, Markus Gropl, Chris Lung