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Posted 2 years ago
walksoftly
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I had posted this four days ago, hoping to get help figuring out how to open it, after a lot of searching I found the U S patent number 338,251. patented March 23, 1886. no mfg. marks or info
U S patent drawing link
http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=00338251&SectionNum=2&IDKey=BA8F331A91BF&HomeUrl=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
To open it you pull out on the side of the knife body and lift it from its locking pin at the tip of the blade, then you rotate the body side CW and it takes the blade with it into the working position, continue CW and place it back on the locking pin.
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Thanks for sharing both the knife AND the answer. Having mastered the patent office you are now un-officially on our research team. Every third " un-solved mystery" is yours !
It was by looking at old patents that where referenced for new knife patents that I found it. An interesting side point The patent was issued to a man with the last name Crandall. Crandall is the name of my home town, no connection though.
It must have been a significant patent.
Thanks for the L's , Picking- and-collecting, AR8Jason, & Savoychina.
Thanks for stopping by, glad you like it official.