Patent attributes
A folding knife having a blade pivotably connected to a handle. The blade has a tang including a contoured peripheral surface and an open block engagement tang surface, and an axis of rotation. The handle has a slot having at least one top surface. The knife has a locking block translatable on a plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the blade. The locking block has an engagement surface positioned to contact at least one of the contoured peripheral surface and the open block engagement tang surface when the blade is in an open position. The locking block has at least two bearing surfaces engaging the at least one top surface along two lines, with the at least two bearing surfaces positioned so that a force applied by the blade to the engagement surface is directed along a line between the at least two bearing surfaces.
