CPC B26B 1/08 (2013.01) [B26B 5/003 (2013.01)] | 6 Claims |
1. An automatically retracting utility knife, comprising:
a blade actuation mechanism comprising a squeeze trigger operably connected to a trigger slide, a slider rack, and a blade carriage configured to retain a cutting blade, wherein the trigger slide is detachably connected to the slider rack and the slider rack is operably connected to the blade carriage such that when the cutting blade is engaged with a cutting surface, the blade carriage is pulled forward thereby causing the slider rack to move rearward and disconnect from the trigger slide thereby interrupting an indirect connection between the trigger slide and the blade carriage and permitting the blade carriage to be automatically retracted by a tension component when the cutting blade is lifted from the cutting surface regardless of whether the squeeze trigger has been released.
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