Horseman's pocket knife

Claim 1

A horseman's pocket knife of a size that will conveniently fit in a pants pocket, said knife having a handle with a recess of a predetermined depth and a plurality of blades pivoted about pivot pins located toward each end of the handle between closed positions in which the blades are positioned in the recess in the handle for storage and operative positions in which they are pivoted out from the handle recess for use, wherein the improvement comprises: one of said blades being a hoof-cutting blade for planing the bottom of a horse's hoof and shaping the hoof, said hoof-cutting blade having a lateral cutting edge along one lateral edge of the blade, said hoof-cutting blade being pivotally connected to the handle at one of said pivot pins so that it can be folded into the handle in such a way that the lateral cutting edge is concealed in the handle, said hoof-cutting blade additionally having its free end being of a hook shape in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the lateral width of the blade, said hook-shaped end having a transverse cutting edge transverse to the longitudinal dimension of the blade, the lateral width of the cutting blade decreasing toward said hook-shaped free end so its width at the transverse cutting edge is at least substantially as small as the depth of the recess in the handle so that the transverse cutting edge is substantially concealed in the recess when in the closed position and the hook shape having an arc such that the hoof-cutting blade fits within the handle without interfering with any other blade by extending about such a blade.