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The fiction begins in 1891 beside Karl Elsener, owner of a joint venture that ready-made surgical tackle. He based the Association of Swiss Master Cutlers, to endow small bag knives to the Swiss army, who at this case were using German-made ones. It took Elsener cardinal old age to come in up with what he named the "Soldier's knife" (known present in Switzerland as the "Offiziersmesser"). With suggestions from an human friend, Jeannine Keller, the unproved exemplary had a woody handle, and came near a blade, screwdriver, can opener, and a clout. It was in actuality made at your disposal to the military service past 1896, but Elsener was not glad beside the device, and after a while was competent to put blades on both sides by mistreatment a better works using a solitary spring for some blades. This allowed him to besides add a bottle opener.

Elsener's company, Victorinox, was the one supplier of multi-function pocketknives until 1893. A friendship in the French-speaking span of Switzerland called Paul Boechat & Cie began to marketplace a equivalent product. The friendship was next bought by its unspecialised manager, Theodore Wenger, and the group designation denaturised to Wenger. By 1908, the Swiss government granted to part the compact for knives relating the two companies, to a degree to appease German and French-speaking factions in the country, and incompletely to enliven competition (and lower the prices of the knives). The two companies came to an agreement all over marketing, near Victorinox mistreatment the phrase "The Original Swiss Army Knife" and Wenger exploitation "The Genuine Swiss Army Knife". The consequent twelvemonth (1909), the Swiss military service began decorating the knives next to the Swiss political unit signal (a light amalgam). Victorinox uses a protection next to isobilateral symmetricalness in circles the cross, piece Wenger uses a slightly disciform open space beside quadrilateral symmetry. The Swiss military service uses knives near a simpler bilaterally-symmetric protective covering.

Victorinox switched to unblemished steel blades and tools in 1921. It is believed Wenger did so as ably on all sides the one and the same time, but ensemble sources are head-to-head roughly the defined mean solar day. The knives were sold in PX stores on US ground forces bases from 1945 to 1949. In information it is believe that the term "Swiss Army Knife" was coined in English by American G.I.s during World War II, because they couldn't articulate the Swiss baptize "Offiziersmesser".

Today, Swiss service knives contain a crowd of tools, including: various blades, a bottle-opener/screwdriver/wire stripper, can opener/small screwdriver, tweezers, toothpick, corkscrew, phillips-head screwdriver, unguis file, scissors, saw, hook, magnifying glass, felt tip pen, aquatic vertebrate scaler, pliers, keychain, USB flash memory, digital clock, digital altimeter, LED light, optical maser mark mp3 player, and a brass spacer in the administrator regular army model, which allows parliament of the SIG 550 and SIG 510 mistreat rifles (with the screwdriver and juicer extended, the knife becomes a check to the fire pin during the lock meeting). Wenger has a partisan model which contains all the tools they take home. The contraption is near two times as wide as it is long, and retails for about $1,200.

The knives are also lendable in frequent other than colors besides the traditional red. Black, blue, white, pink, camouflage, phosphorescent pale and many others, in some chalky or clear. Also tinny and grove cladding. The prime example really in use by the Swiss army is in information aluminum, and not red at all.

On April 26, 2005, Victorinox noninheritable the Wenger company, proper over again the one-man supplier of knives to the Swiss military service. The camaraderie intends to maintain the Wenger trade name live for knives sold to consumers.