Bendable Measuring Device
OwnerJayson Leff, Ryan Brysoninventors
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Abstract
A measuring tool is formed from a malleable flexible bendable non-resilient material as an elongated planar strip. The planar tool has measuring indicia formed on at least one of the tool's planar surfaces. When the tool is placed in contact with an object, it can be bent to conform to the contact surface of the object. The tool retains the conformed shape for any desired period of time without returning to its normal planar configuration, thus allowing the user to trace the object or record measurements of the object.
Claims15
A measuring device comprising:
- an elongated strip having a normally planar configuration, a first planar surface, a second planar surface oriented parallel to the first planar surface, a first elongated edge and a second elongated edge, and measuring indicia formed on at least the first planar surface along at least the first elongated edge, and wherein said elongated strip is formed from a malleable non-resilient material, the strip being disposed to conform to a shape of an object being measured and to maintain conformed shape for a desired period of time without returning to the normally planar configuration.
A measuring device comprising:
- an elongated strip having a normally planar rectangular configuration, a first planar surface, a second planar surface oriented parallel to the first planar surface, a first elongated edge and a second elongated edge extending parallel to the first elongated edge, and measuring indicia formed on at least the first planar surface along at least the first elongated edge, and wherein said elongated strip is formed from a malleable non-resilient flexible bendable material, said elongated strip being disposed to conform to a shape of an object being measured and to maintain conformed shape for a desired period of time without returning to the normally planar configuration.
A method for tracing a contour of an object, including the steps of:
- providing a measuring device comprising an elongated malleable strip having a normally planar configuration, a first planar surface, a second planar surface oriented parallel to the first planar surface, a first elongated edge and a second elongated edge, and measuring indicia formed on at least the first planar surface along at least the first elongated edge;
- placing said strip proximate the object being traced;
- adjusting the strip sufficient to permit at least a portion of said strip to contact the object being traced and to conform to a shape of a contact surface of the object being traced;
- removing said strip from contact with the object being traced;
- and
- recording measured dimensions of the object being traced.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.