US 7,946,053 B2Granted

Structural improvement of an anti-slip hook piece of a measuring tape device

AssigneeIndex Measuring Tape Co., Ltd.

InventorJason Huang

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Abstract

A measuring tape device has a hook piece. The hook piece is used for preventing the tape from slipping off from an object of measure. The hook piece consists of a hook body and an anti-slip piece; the hook body consists of a pulling part and a connecting part; the pulling part is a flat surface, the connecting part extends out from one side of the pulling part in the direction that is perpendicular to the pulling part; the anti-slip piece is adhered onto the inside surface of the pulling part; and magnetic pieces are attached to the outside surface of the pulling part. Therefore, during the measuring process, both the anti-slip piece and the magnetic pieces may help keeping the hook plate of the measuring tape attaching to the object of measure and hence the tape does not slip off from the object of measure easily.

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Dependent claims

A measuring tape device including a hook piece having an anti-slip function, the measuring tape device comprising:

a casing, a bobbin disposed inside the casing, the bobbin being connected to the casing with a spring;
a measuring tape contained within the casing, one end of the tape being connected to a spring and wound around the bobbin, the other end of the tape extending outside the casing and being connected to a hook piece;
the hook piece including a hook body, the hook body comprising:
a pulling part having a primary surface, an outer surface and a first upper side, the first upper side having a concave surface;
a connecting part extending out from one side of the pulling part in a direction that is perpendicular to the pulling part;
an anti-slip piece adhered to the primary surface of the pulling part, the anti-slip piece having an upper concave surface corresponding to the concave surface of the first upper side of the pulling part;
wherein the pulling part has three other sides connected to the primary surface and each of the three other sides has an extruded edge that protrudes from the primary surface.

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