Multifunctional morphological measuring apparatus

Multifunctional morphological measuring apparatus (100) comprising a housing (104) having a slot, and a graduated flexible tape measure (6) inserted into said slot and having a first end held in the housing (104) and a second end (105) arranged outside the housing (104), the housing (104) enclosing means for winding the tape (6) in said housing (104) and an electronic control system (7) comprising an electronic card (15) having a computer, electronic memory components, an electric charge accumulator (14) and a power supply port (18), the apparatus (100) further comprising means for measuring (12) of a characteristic morphological index of 'a part of the human body (U0) around which the tape (6) is at least partially wound, said morphological index measuring means (12) comprising:

• —a rotary transducer (22) which measures the length of the unwinding of the tape (6) from the housing (104) and encodes it into an electrical quantity intended for the control system electronic (7)
• a lever which is offset from the housing (104) by an electric cable (11) and which has an activation button (19) interfacing the user and the electronic control system (7),
• at least one pair of complementary electrodes (13,16) of metallic conductive material based on aluminum, one of said electrodes (13,16) being mechanically linked to the electronic control system (7), and one of said electrodes (13, 16) being on the joystick,
• the electronic control system (7) comprising a transmitter for telemetric transmission of data (21) measured by the morphological index measuring means (12).