where did the name chute in chute knife derive from?

The first one was made and named by an old guy whose first name was Para...Para Chute. The chute knife, chute being the shortened version of parachute, is carried by otherwise normal people who jump out of airplanes for recreation or vocation. Should the need arise to shed the opened parachute for any reason the chute knife, which by the by should be worn in a readily accessible location, is used to cut the risers.
 
Everybody should have a chute knife. Almost every afteroon I find it necessary to cut some unfortunate soul free from his parachute shroud lines. I find it only secondary to my seat belt knife which is used even more frequently!!
 
Everybody should have a chute knife. Almost every afternoon I find it necessary to cut some unfortunate soul free from his parachute shroud lines. I find it only secondary to my seat belt knife which is used even more frequently!! Never could find the release button!!
 
Ken Kelley said:
The first one was made and named by an old guy whose first name was Para...Para Chute. The chute knife, chute being the shortened version of parachute, is carried by otherwise normal people who jump out of airplanes for recreation or vocation. Should the need arise to shed the opened parachute for any reason the chute knife, which by the by should be worn in a readily accessible location, is used to cut the risers.
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I remember that guy!
As well, note that the chute knife is sharpened on the clip as well. This way Mr. Chute could cut lines while going either direction with the knife. Time is at a premium when you're falling through the air, and you only have a few seconds to deploy Mr. Reserve.
 
Bob Loveless:

“I invented the concept, I want to say in 1967 or ’68, in response to Harry Archer’s request,” says long-time knifemaker and Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer© Bob Loveless. “He described what he wanted—a knife that could serve him well in semi-tropical and tropical jungle areas as a survival knife and weapon. He wanted something that could be used for self-defense or as an offensive weapon, and a knife that could be lashed onto the end of a long pole for killing small game.” So, who was Archer? “Harry Archer never disclosed what his duty was, and I never asked him,” Loveless notes. “His work was with an agency that operated in adjunct with the Special Forces. Archer’s chute knife was meant to be a tool to help in a survival situation, and specifically to be lashed to the top of a chest pack, a chest chute—secondary parachute—so Harry could get at it quickly in case he got hung up in a tree after parachuting out of an airplane.”
 
Huh...I always figured it was for working livestock in a corral chute...:D Sometimes you gotta convince them to keep on moving or become BBQ.
 
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