TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a device for a knife handle which is provided with a detachable knife blade. More specifically, the invention relates to a device for those knife handles in which at least one spring member is fitted which is adapted to engage securely in a hole a countersinking or the like in the knife blade with at ^' least one hook or the like.

BACKGROUND ART

Previously known knives constructed in the manner indicated above are intended primarily for cutting out carpets or for other work where the knife blade is exposed to severe wear. The idea in this case is that the pife blade can be of comparatively low quality if the securing in the knife handle is such that the blade only permits a cutting function.. Usually the knife blade is mounted in the handle in such a manner that only a small cutting edge projects. The knife blade is then not exposed to such great flexural stresses and so does not risk breaking. These known knives are not suitable, however, for such fields of application as hunting, fishing, wood-carving etc. for example. The knife blade for these fields of application must be of good quality, have one or two long cutting edges and withstand chopping, stabbing, sawing and prizing loose. It is also important that the securing of the knife blade in the handle should be stable and free of play.

DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION

The object of the invention is to provide a device for knife blades which satisfies the requirements given above. More particularly, an object is to provide a knife suitable for example for hunting, fishing, wood-carving and the like, wherein the knife blade shall withstand chopping, stabbing, sawing and prizing loose, which presupposes that the securing cf the knife blade in the handle is stable and free of play.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a device which permits

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a plurality of different types of knife blade which can be used, for example, for dismembering an animal killed while hunting.

Several different types of knife and chisel tool are likewise require 5 for wood-carving. It therefore involves a considerable saving in carr ing out the above-mentioned activities if, according to the invention several different tools can be used with one and the same knife handl

Thus through the invention a knife comes into existence with which th 10 knife blade can easily and conveniently be detached from the handle a with which the knife blade is mounted firmly and securely in the in¬ serted position, while at the same time the risk of the knife blade accidentally comirig loose is minimum. That which primarily distingui¬ shes the device according to the invention can be seen from Claim 1. 15 Further characteristics of the invention are seen from the following description and the other patent claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference

20 to an example of embodiment which is shown on the accompanying drawin in which

Figure 1 is an exploded view of the parts included in the device.

2 Figures 2 - 7 show the device in longitudinal and cross section in three different positions; Figure 2 with.the knife blade locked in the handle, Figure 4 with the control member press in releasing the knife blade and Figure 6 the knife handle without knife blade. 30

BEST MODE OF CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Ttie device includes a knife blade 1 which is adapted to be introduced into a slide 2 formed from recesses 2', 2'' in two halves 3, 4 of gripping members. The halves of gripping members are identical in -" shape but in mirror image and together form a knife handle.

Disposed in each half gripping member 3, 4 is a groove 5', 5'' which_

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grooves together form a chamber 5. A spring leaf 6, 7 is disposed in each groove 5', 5''. The leaves have their resilient contact surface facing one another.

5 The spring leaves 6, 7 are each provided with a hook 8, 9 on the con¬ tact surface which hooks are directed from the opening of the slide 2 obliquely into the slide space.

The knife blade 1 is provided with holes 10, 11, countersinkings or the 0 like in which the hooks 8, 9 are situated when the knife blade is fully introduced into th.e handle, se Figure 2.

The spring leaves 6, 7 are bent outwards at both ends, at the outer end to facilitate the introduction of the knife blade 1 between the spring 5 leaves and at the inner end to permit the introduction of a wedge 12 which-constitutes the innermost portion of a control member 13.

The control member 13 is placed in the back-portion of the knife handle, countersunk to the level of the back end of the handle and is dis- 0 placeable in the direction towards and away from the knife blade 1 in its longitudinal direction. On displacement in the direction towards the knife blade 1, the wedge 12 of the control member 13 penetrates - between the two spring leaves 6, 7 and brings their hooks 8, 9 out of engagement with the knife blade, see Figure 4. So long as the control 5 member 13 is kept pressed in, therefore, the knife blade 1 can easily be pulled out of the handle.

The wedge 12 may appropriately be provided with an extension 14 by means of which, through maximum pressing in of the control member 13, 0 the knife blade 1 can be pushed out a short distance so that the hooks 8, 9 may no longer be situated in front of their respective holes 10, 11. In this case, it is possible to pull out the knife blade 1 even after the control member 13 has been released.

-5 It is also possible to arrange the hooks 8, 9 and holes 10, 11 in line with one another at a distance from one another which corresponds to the distance which the knife blade is displaced on maximum pressing in

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of the control member 13. In this case, the hole 10 is displaced from the position opposite the hook 9 to a position opposite the hook 8 which means that the knife blade 1 is again mounted securely in a som what projecting position after the control member 13 has been release This arrangement gives an extra security against the accidental detac ment of the knife blade in addition to the security which is provided on the one hand by the countersunk placing of the control member in t handle and on the other hand by the working movement of the control member in the longitudinal direction of the handle and the knife blad

Mounted in a cavity which is formed by two recesses 15', 15' ' at the side of,the knife blade 1 when the gripping member halves 3, 4 are assembled is an extra spring leaf 16 which bears against the knife blade 1 and is adapted to prevent play between the knife blade and th handle-

The invention is not restricted to the embodiment shown and described but a number of modifications are conceivable within the scope of the following claims. Both the spring leaves 6, 7 and the control member and the hooks 8, 9 can be formed otherwise than shown.