Switchblade Automatic Knives - How They Are Different From Assisted Opening Kniv

Posted by JeffersonJose256 on November 25th, 2019

Users often get confused between a switchblade and an assisted opening knife. Although they look a bit similar in terms of appearance, their mechanism differs. You can make a wrong purchase if do not clearly know the difference. Let’s take a look at how they differ from each other.

Switchblade

Switchblade is a knife that has a blade which comes out after a button is pressed on the handle. It is also known as ejector knife, pushbutton knife, flick knife, and automatic knife. You can buy automatic knife online as some of the biggest manufacturers sell their switchblades online on their websites.

These knives appear like a normal folder, revolving around a hinge. But when you’re closing the knife, the blade experiences pressure by an inner spring. When the knife is properly closed, the tension created by the spring located inside, is released when you press the button. After you press the button, the blade again experience the tension and it pops out. In side opening switchblades, the blade comes out of the side.

In out the front switchblades, the blade pops out from the top of the handle. This is the only difference between a side opening switchblade and an out the front switchblade. The mechanism which makes the blade come out remains the same. Out the front automatic knives for sale are quite popular online.

Assisted Opening Knife

An assisted opening knife is a knife in which the blade comes out with a little bit of force applied. Inside the handle, the blade of this type of knife is contained in its place with the help torsion springs. When you apply a bit of pressure on the flipper or thumbstud, the blade comes out when torsion spring begins to move in the liner and quickly circumvolves the blade.

While a switchblade user can quickly use the blade by just pressing a button, owner of an assisted opening knife will have to open the blade manually for about one quarter of the way after which the the blade comes out on its own to its fully opened position.

You can tell whether a knife is an assisted opening knife or a switchblade by looking at the resting position of the knife’s blade. If the blade is comes out in a flash and without any effort, then it is a switchblade. And if your applying some pressure on the blade through thumbstud or a lever to open the knife, then it is an assisted opening knife. A sure sign of a switchblade is that it has a button to the open the blade.

Author’s Bio: The author is a blogger. This article is about switchblade’s and assisted opening knife’s different mechanism.

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