| CPC B26B 1/046 (2013.01) | 7 Claims |
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1. A folding knife comprising:
a blade;
a handle rotatably coupled to the blade through a connecting portion, wherein the blade is adapted to rotate about a rotation axis with respect to the handle between at least a first position where the blade is extracted from the handle, and a second position where the blade is at least partially housed in the handle; and
a slider element associated to the blade through a connecting element so as to actuate the rotation of the blade, wherein:
the handle comprises a guide slit formed facing the connecting portion of the blade,
the guide slit has a shape of an arc of circumference concentric to the rotation axis, and also adapted to be slidably engaged by the slider element so as to actuate the rotation of the blade between the first position and the second position,
the handle also comprises along the guide slit a first locking seat and a second locking seat configured to be alternately engaged by the slider element when the blade is respectively in the first position or in the second position,
the slider element comprises a body and an elastic presser element engaged with the body, the elastic presser element being configured to apply a force which causes the engagement of the locking seats by means of the slider element, and further configured to disengage the locking seats from the slider element by applying on the slider element a pressure which overcomes the force applied by the elastic presser element so as to move the body and the elastic presser element of the slider element along the guide slit to actuate the rotation of the blade,
the slider element is associated to the blade so as to be movable along a direction parallel to the rotation axis, and
the elastic presser element applying a force along a direction parallel to the rotation axis.
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