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Leatherman
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Leatherman multi-tool
A Leatherman Wave
with all tools unfolded
Leatherman Super Tool
and belt holster
Leatherman Surge
For other uses, see
Leatherman (disambiguation).
Leatherman
is a trademark
for a line of multitools
and knives produced by the Leatherman
Tool Group. A Leatherman tool is
essentially a pair of pliers with other tools stored in the handles,
and generally includes a knife,
pliers,
screwdriver
and assorted other devices. Some tools from Leatherman have as many as
20 tools and weigh up to 12.5 ounces, while others are smaller than a Swiss Army knife
and weigh as little as 1.8 ounces.
Tool
description
These are generally chosen for the
following qualities:
- compact and light
(suitable to wear in a belt holster
in some applications)
- constructed as a
single piece with various
moving parts, so one component is not lost while using another (except
for the New Wave, Surge, and all Charge models, Skeletool and Skeletool
CX which all have two-sided removable screwdriver bits)
- when collapsed for
storage, relatively
smooth and blunt compared to the equivalent discrete tools, thus
reducing frequency of damage to items stored along with it.
Most models of the Leatherman brand have
a
built-in safety mechanism that locks selected tools in the open
position when fully unfolded. Different models have various methods for
unlocking the tools. In older models that use "clumping" locks, one of
the other tools has to be partly unfolded to release the first one; if
all the tools of this model were to be fully unfolded simultaneously,
then an external tool might be needed to unlock them. In 1998,
Leatherman used its first button
lock on the Crunch tool, allowing each tool to be refolded. In 1999,
Leatherman began using liner locks on the blades of the Wave tool,
which allowed it to be accessed without unfolding the entire tool.
The method in which the pliers are
exposed
is similar to that of the butterfly knife.
In 2005, Leatherman added knives to
their
product line including straight and serrated-edged blades. Leatherman
introduced its first pruner gardening tool in 2006.
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