Combination measuring tape/chalk marker holder

A combination measuring tape/chalk marker holder comprising:

• a. a generally equilateral triangular prismatic body wherein a lateral basal surface is substantially planar and two other lateral surfaces are curved outwardly, a portal being formed in one of said two other lateral surfaces;
• said prismatic body having two spaced apart planar sealing surfaces generally spanning the two other lateral surfaces and generally sealing an interior of said prismatic body;
• b. an outwardly projecting chalk retention pocket formed adjacent said lateral basal surface, an outwardly projecting extension of said lateral basal surface defining a first wall of said chalk retention pocket and extending along substantially a length of said lateral basal surface, leaving two lateral walls each defined by a projecting extension of one of said two other lateral surfaces, each said lateral wall beginning adjacent said lateral basal surface and extending both a minor portion of a length of its adjoining outwardly curved lateral surface and along said lateral basal surface to penemedial position there along;
• c. a portal being formed medially in one of said planar sealing surfaces;
• d. a flexible chalk retention member projecting from said lateral basal surface opposed to said planar sealing surface having a portal medially formed therein, between termini of said lateral walls near a medial location on said lateral basal surface having normally projecting shoulder portion supporting an arm portion projecting therefrom generally in the direction of an apex of said outwardly curved two other lateral surfaces bearing a pressing disc generally adjacent a centroid of said prismatic body having a domed section formed thereupon projecting toward the planar sealing surface adjacent thereto;
• e. said chalk retention pocket being flexible and being adapted to receive and removably retain a thin convex lensate marking body of generally the same peripheral shape as said prismatic body;
• f. a rotatable reel disposed within said generally equilateral triangular prismatic body, having a flexible tape disposed thereabout, a spring operably connected to said rotatable reel and urging it to rotate counter to extension of said flexible tape;
• a ratchet restraining said rotatable reel from rotation counter to extension of said flexible tape and a clutch operable to disengage said ratchet from said rotatable reel, a clutch actuator projecting through said portal being formed medially in said one of said planar sealing surfaces operable to disengage said clutch and allow said spring to rotate said rotatable reel to withdraw said flexible tape into said prismatic body;
• and
• g. a rotatable foot rotatably secured to one side of said prismatic body, said rotatable foot being rotatable between a stored disposition adjacent one side of said prismatic body and an extended disposition projecting therefrom generally normally enabling said combination measuring tape/chalk marker holder to stand erect.