Roll tape measure

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1984-06-19

1985-12-03

Little, Willis

Geometrical instruments

Area integrators

Electrical

G01B 310

Patent

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045558540

ABSTRACT:
In order to simplify and improve the fly-back suppressor in a roll tape measure having a box-shaped housing 1, serving as a handle and made up of two rigidly interconnected halves 2, 3 of elastic plastic, an approximately dish-shaped drum 5 subjected to the force of a tension spring and mounted on a shaft 4 or a bolt 15, a measuring tape 9 wound onto the drum and a manually operable fly-back suppressor for the said tension spring. The housing 1 contains a brake body 12, 17 which rests against the drum under the effect of spring pressure and which can be operated from the outside.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2833534 (1958-05-01), Foster
patent: 3381916 (1968-07-01), Edgell
patent: 4023277 (1977-05-01), Fizer
patent: 4068383 (1978-01-01), Krebs
patent: 4121785 (1978-10-01), Quenot
patent: 4443944 (1984-04-01), Beesley
patent: 4487379 (1984-12-01), Drechsler et al.

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