US 10,634,476 B1 · Measuring tool

Abstract

A measuring tool comprising two tape measures. Each tape measure may be housed in a casing, and each casing may have an interface surface detachably coupled to the interface surface of the other casing. The measuring tool further comprises a level and a vertical laser. The vertical laser projects perpendicularly downward from the horizontal plane of the level. In a method to square a corner for a structure using the measuring tool, the user selects a first side to be perpendicular to a second side, calculates the diagonal therebetween using the desired lengths of the first side and the second side, attaches the measuring tapes to end points of the first side, tautly draws the measuring tapes to the lengths for the diagonal and the second side, and then marks the location using the level and vertical laser.

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Dependent claims

A measuring tool comprising:

a first measuring tape, the first measuring tape being extendable and retractable relative to the measuring tool;
a second measuring tape, the second measuring tape being extendable and retractable relative to the measuring tool;
a level arranged on a top exterior surface of the measuring tool which indicates orientation relative to a horizontal plane;
and
a vertical laser arranged on a bottom exterior surface of the measuring tool;
wherein the vertical laser is configured to project a laser beam, the laser beam projected by the vertical laser being substantially perpendicular to the horizontal plane of the level.

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