Types of locks...

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allenC

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I was just sitting here playing with my new Spyderco Meerkat and my CRKT Bladelock while searching the archives for "lock" threads when I started wondering...
How many different locks are there?

These are just a few that come to mind:

latches (Balisongs)
collar or twist locks (Opinal)
lock-backs (Buck 110)
liner-locks (and all of its variations)
LAWKS (really a lock safety)
frame-locks (and all of its variations)
axis-lock (Benchmade)
arc-lock (SOG)
bladelock (Michael Walker)
phantom-lock (Spyderco)
compression-lock (Spyderco)
top-lock (Boker)
Neely lock (Timberline)
packlock (Wenger SAKs)
discovery-lock (Timberline)
rolling-lock (REKAT)
plunge-lock (MOD)


What others can you name?

Allen.
 
The new Cold Steel folders have a lock that resembles the axis lock. I cannot remember the name offhand.
 
Cold Steels lock is called........"The Ultra-Lock".
 
Leon Pittman designed a folding knife that was mentioned in Blade sometime last year that functioned somewhat like the Marble's Safety Folders, the old Schrade folding fishknives, and the Cold Steel Triple Action Folders. There's also Schrade's V-Lock on their new Barnett folder, and I have a small Stanley pocketknife that has a lock that's released by pulling down on a pair of tabs set into the bottom of the handle of the knife. Also, there's the Wood/Irie Swinglock, Scott Sawby's Self Lock that was slated for the Buck 530 series, Victorinox's red-handle lockback lock that appears similar to the Gerber Bolt-Action lock, the infamously poorly constructed "Folding Paratrooper Knife" that accordions the blade out, the dear, departed Rolox (a kind of lockback, I guess), and the pin-locks found on Hubertus and older Boker and Klass lever-release switchblades. Finally, there are the myriad keychain-esque knives, such as the Christy sliding knife, issued to U.S. Customs agents, the old Case sliding utility knives with three positions (OTF), the Tekna credit-card knife, and the Flip-It. I'm sure there are more, I read somewhere that Michael Walker has patents on thirty-something locking mechanisms...
 
William Henry Matt-lock.
Chris Reeve made many kinds of locks while he still was a custom maker. I have a picture of knife with lock-45 - some kind of rotational lock.
 
I just today, happened to rotate out my small Sebenza (integral lock already mentioned,) for my Gerber Paul Knife with its Axial lock.

I have never seen the custom version.

I previously postedsome details and patent link to the axial lock.
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Not to nit-pick tooooooooo much, but there is the lock-back and then there is the "front lock" (really more of a mid-lock) such as on Spyderco knives. (Referred to as the MacBurnette-Mar Front Lock).

I don't know the name of it, but I have a Spanish Navaja that has a top-mounted lever that locks into(ratches upon opening) the thumb ramp of the blade. You might call it the "third world" lock.

See this thread....
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=179990
 
I only saw 4 lock patents for Mike Walker at the PTO site,but I`ve heard this 30 number before. I think Blackie Collins has the most, but I think the Axis is the best.

Too bad Walker didn`t patent the linerlock cause theres sure a lot of them. The other lock you see a whole lot of is the one used on the coil autos, and that isn`t patented either for what it`s worth.

I heard a rumor of another new one from Benchmade by the guys[?] who did the Axis, but I have no idea what it is.
 
My understanding of what Mr. Walker added to the liner-lock was the ball-bearing detent. A prebent liner of various metals has been used for many years.

Spyderco's phantom lock is actually based on a lockback; instead of pressing down a bar, rotating the handle material moves the spring.

Don't forget Bob Dozier's Tab-lock (a variant of the liner-lock, I think), or A.G. Russell's lock on his one-hand folding knife (almost like an ultra-front-lock lockback, IIRC).
 
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