Marking Tool
OwnerBrendan Joseph O'Hareinventor
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Abstract
A hand-holdable marking tool comprising a housing, a plate-like reference piece locatable against a surrounding frame; and a marking implement having a marking point movable to a pre-determined distance away from the reference piece. The hand-holdable marking tool may be a hand-holdable door marking tool (2) used against a door frame. The invention further provides a method of marking a door in comparison with a corresponding door frame.
Claims15
A hand-holdable door marking tool comprising:
- a housing;
- a plate-like reference piece locatable against a door frame;
- and
- a marking implement having a marking point movable to a pre-determined distance away from the reference piece.
A tool according to claim 13 in which a part of the control wheel is accessible in, through or outside the housing, for adjusting the mechanism.
A method of marking a door in comparison with a corresponding door frame comprising at least the steps of:
- (a) locating a plate-like reference piece of a door marking tool against the door frame, the door marking tool comprising:
- a housing;
- a plate-like reference piece locatable against a door frame;
- and
- a marking implement having a marking point movable to a pre-determined distance away from the reference piece;
- (b) adjusting the distance of the marking point of the door marking tool away from the reference piece;
- (c) locating the marking implement of the door marking tool against the door;
- and
- (d) moving the door marking tool along the door frame such that the marking point creates a line on the door parallel to and a distance from the door frame set in step (b).
A hand-holdable marking tool comprising:
- a housing;
- a plate-like reference piece configured to be locatable against a surrounding frame;
- and
- a marking implement having a marking point movable to a pre-determined distance away from the reference piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.