Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for use in marking a point on a wall where a fastener should be installed in order to hang an object at a desired location on the wall. A device according to the invention includes an elongate frame having an elongate slot. The frame is adapted to be positioned adjacent to a back surface of the object to be hung. The device further includes a ledge projecting from the frame. The ledge is adapted to be positioned in contact with a top surface of the object. The device also includes a carriage that is supported by the frame. The carriage is adapted for reciprocating movement along the slot. The device further includes a pin that is carried by the carriage. The pin terminates on a first end in a stylus that extends in a direction away from the back surface of the object when the frame is positioned adjacent thereto. The device also includes a plurality of hooks that are carried by the carriage. The hooks are disposed at predetermined distances below the stylus.

Abstract: The tool for locating a center mark for embroidery on articles such as garments includes a planar body having orthogonally-related legs with respective exterior and interior edges. Index markings are provided on the legs along the linear edges. The index markings include indicia identifying a plurality of corresponding preestablished garment sizes along the linear extending edges, respectively. By aligning common selected sizes along the edges with the vertical centerline of a folded garment and a shoulder portion of the garment, respectively, the location of the embroiderer's center mark on the garment is identified at the intersection of the linear edges. The interior edges of the tool may also used to form marking lines where conventional hoop grids are not available.

Abstract: A calibration device for a pad conditioner head of a CMP machine includes a lower first horizontal member defining an arcuate reference surface having a shape complementary to that of the outer peripheral edge of the platen of the machine, an upper second horizontal member spaced vertically from the first member and having a reference mark thereon lying in the projected plane of the reference surface, and a connecting member interconnecting the first member and second member. When the reference surface of the first horizontal member of the calibration device is be butted against the outer peripheral edge of the platen adjacent the head of the pad conditioner, the location of the outermost portion of the head of the pad conditioner relative to the reference mark is readily observable. Thus, the extent to which the outermost portion of the head of the pad conditioner is vertically aligned relative to the outer peripheral edge of the platen can be easily and accurately determined.

Abstract: A dosing container (1) made of transparent material which is useful for the multiple removal of a free-flowing application product for a subject animal or human health, having a filling section (6) which is of a constant cross section over its filling height (3), and having adjustably secured to the container a dosing slide (10, 23) having a scale (11, 22), which slide can be adjusted over the filling height (3) of the container (5), and which can be set at the beginning of a treatment to a filling height (15) indicated by a scale value (14) corresponding to the body weight of the subject to be treated and which setting reaches filling height 16 corresponding to the scale value zero (12) at the end of a treatment.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to measure, establish and implement a desired range of travel allowed a reclining seat back portion of an airline seating accommodation. The invention, utilizing one or more base unit positioning templates is abutted to one or more seating accommodation foot structures to provide for accurate measurement positioning. A measurement bar restriction component is adjustably positioned to indicate a desired maximum reline position for said seat back portion, and a pivotally attached measurement bar is raised perpendicularly therefrom to a vertical orientation. Said raised measurement bar's uppermost end providing a reference point against which said seat back portion's initial contact indicates a maximum reclined position.

Abstract: A pipe angle measuring tool and pipe angle marking tool are defined. A template is also defined which is a flexible substrate, such as paperboard, on which images of the tools are printed. A user may create the tools by cutting them out of the paperboard with ordinary scissors or by separating lines of weakness provided in the substrate. The tools are useful in measuring an angle between two pipes and marking the angle on a part of a selectable angle pipe elbow. The template is inexpensive to produce and can, therefore, be provided to purchasers of selectable angle pipe elbows at little or no charge to the purchaser.

Abstract: A connected and relatively pivotal two piece angular measuring device that will provide information and/or direct data or indicia to be used in setting mitre saw cutting angles for accurate placement of trim, molding, shelves, and the like.

Abstract: A molded limit gauge for measuring workpiece thicknesses. The limit gauge includes a body having one or more elongate ridges extending longitudinally therealong. Each ridge has a plurality of notches extending laterally through its upper portion. Each notch has a unique longitudinal dimension that is uniform. In a first preferred embodiment of the invention, the bottom surface of each notch and the land between each notch is horizontally flat. In a second preferred embodiment, each of these surfaces has a configuration of a laterally convex curve. The limit gauge body is configured such that it can be mounted atop a planing machine. So mounted, it can function as a structural top of the planing machine. Measurement of a board thickness is accomplished by attempting to slide the board through notches that appear to match its thickness. A range of board thickness is defined between the indicated sizes of two adjacent notches that respectively allow and do not allow passage of the board through.

Abstract: A micrometer comprising a thimble made, at least in part, of a translucent material, a vernier scale on an inner circumference of the thimble along the circumferential direction and a vernier numeral on an outer circumference of the thimble along the circumferential direction, whereby reading error during measurement can be reduced.

Abstract: A device (10) for determining the movement or elongation of an article, particularly a belt (28), is disclosed. The device (10) is comprised of two different pitched length scales (12, 14) which when laid upon one another form a vernier scale. When the scales are laid upon one another, a small area of visible contrasting color (24) is seen. A large movement of the visible contrasting color (24) indicates the miniscule movement of either scale (12, 14), relative to the other. The device (10) disclosed may also be partially imprinted onto a belt (28) wherein minute elongation of the belt (28) is obvious.

Abstract: A digital fastener size indicator having a housing. A fixed jaw extends from an end of the housing, while a movable jaw extends from the end of the housing adjacent to and parallel with the fixed jaw. A digital electrical length measuring circuit within the housing is connected to the movable jaw. When the movable jaw and the fixed jaw encompass a fastener and the digital electrical length measuring circuit is activated a digital readout will be presented in the housing of a single discrete number to an operator to indicate the size of the fastener.

Abstract: An attachment to a standard measuring rule includes a body securely supporting the measuring rule. Within the body a vernier is provided. The vernier divides twenty-four one-eighth inch divisions into twenty-five equal parts, enabling vernier measurements in units of five-thousandths of an inch. A second vernier with marks spaced by one thousandth of a unit less than said measuring rule enables resolution to thousandth units. The results of the first and second verniers can be summed to yield non-interpolated resolution in thousandths of an inch from a fractional rule. Replacement rules and verniers further enable the measuring instrument to alternatively measure tolerance limits, providing the measuring instrument the adaptability to be converted readily into an easy to read quality control instrument.

Abstract: A device and a method for measuring distances between two points is described. In particular, the device and method may be used in a surgical setting. In one embodiment, the device comprises an extension for extending into the body through an incision, the extension having a distal tip for insertion into the body and a proximal handle for remaining outside the body; a first measuring end and a second measuring end at the distal tip, the first and second measuring ends at a predetermined angle from each other and defining a distance between the first and second measuring ends, the first measuring end being movable relative to the distal tip, the first and second measuring ends being rounded; and an actuator at the proximal handle for moving the first measuring end relative to the distal tip.

Abstract: A strip of material with at least one start marker and a plurality of rows of object markers designating body parts to be sized, directional markers designating orientation of the strip, size markers and size indicia. The size markers demarcate subranges of body part measurements and are arranged relative to the start marker. Size indicia are arranged between the size markers and designate and are correlated to garment sizes. Stretch characteristics of the garment being sized are accounted for by the use of adjusted size marker positions, a stretch material, or a compression/elasticity correlation graph. A method of sizing compression garments includes the steps of wrapping the measuring article generally around a body part, overlapping the measuring article with itself, reading the garment size indicia from the measuring article, and entering the garment size indicia in a garment order system.

Abstract: A digital fastener size indicator comprising a housing. A fixed jaw extends from an end of the housing, while a movable jaw extends from the end of the housing adjacent to and parallel with the fixed jaw. A digital electrical length measuring circuit within the housing is connected to the movable jaw. When the movable jaw and the fixed jaw encompass a fastener and the digital electrical length measuring circuit is activated a digital readout will be presented in the housing of a single discrete number to an operator to indicate the size of the fastener.

Abstract: The present invention provides an analog quantity display method of counting displacement of a probe disposed in contact with an object to be measured and analog-displaying the obtained count value by an analog display section as an analog quantity. If a peak value of the count value exceeds a possible analog-display range of the analog display section, an offset provided for the analog-displayed count value is updated in such a manner that the peak value is displayed within the possible analog-display range. Further, an analog quantity measuring method is provided, which comprises counting displacement of the probe, compares the obtained count value with a peak value of the count value, holds the count value as a new peak value depending upon a result of the comparison, and executes the comparison and the holding of the peak value again if the difference between the present peak value and the present count value exceeds a predetermined value.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a leadframe stip counting gauge and comprises a gauge member having an engagement portion adapted for association with a leadframe carrier having leadframes contained therein. The leadframe strip counting gauge further comprises leadframe count indicia associated with the gauge member, wherein the indicia are spatially distributed with respect to the gauge member and are adapted to provide a count representing a number of leadframes residing in the leadframe carrier. The present invention also relates to a method of counting leadframes residing in a leadframe carrier, and comprises positioning a leadframe counting member near a leadframe carrier containing leadframes therein. The method further comprises determining a number of leadframes in the leadframe carrier using leadframe count indicia associated with the leadframe counting member.

Abstract: The present invention may be used to dispense a dose of medication to a patient from a syringe having a barrel adapted for receiving the medication and a plunger adapted for drawing the medication into the barrel and dispensing the medication from the syringe. The medication dose is based on a measurement or value associated with a patient that corresponds to a coded range. The present invention includes a sleeve mounted on the barrel of the syringe. The sleeve contains indicia corresponding to a plurality of the coded ranges. In one embodiment, the indicia include a plurality of colored marks corresponding to a plurality of the coded ranges indicative of different doses of the medication. In another embodiment, the indicia is a color of a tinted, substantially transparent sleeve.

Abstract: A pipe size measuring tool having a plurality of gauges, each gauge having an open mouth there on. The sizes of the open mouths in each gauge are different from each other. The gauges are mounted together with each gauge having a front end, a body portion and a rear end. The gauges are pivotally mounted together adjacent their rear ends so that they are moveable from a folded compact position to an open postion. The front ends are wider than the rear ends and the gauges are thin and light-weight. Openings are provided in the rear ends so that the gauges may be pivotally mounted together at the rear ends. The gauges are of different sizes with the larger open mouths located in the larger gauges.

Abstract: A multi-purpose, positioning and fastening strap is disclosed for use in the construction of building structures. The strap is made from a flexible, durable, non-stretchable material and has a high breaking load. The strap is usable for various construction applications, such as, the fastening or holding down of tar or felt paper on a roof, the laying down of shingles on a roof, the erection of a trussing structure for a roof, the construction of a floor, etc. The durability and breaking load of the multi-purpose strap are critical physical characteristics which are necessary for its use in the aforementioned various construction applications.

Abstract: The invention is of a kit or system useful for guiding and facilitating the taking, tabulation and processing of measurements as pertain to scoring game animal according to established scoring rules. The kit or system includes a flexible cable which is used to record absolute lengths or distances needed for a proper scoring. The cable lacks cumulative length indicia or unit indications, but rather includes equally spaced incremental indicia which are used (by multiplying the number of indicia as rest between measurement endpoints) as part of the ultimate determination of length according to standard measurement units. A reusable score card is also provided which includes spaces for recording measurements and indicia for indicating the proper measurements to be taken as well as the sequence thereof and prescribed calculations to be made therefrom.

Abstract: An attachment to a standard measuring rule includes a body with a three point mount for stably and securely supporting the measuring rule. Within the body a vernier is provided. In one embodiment the vernier is entirely co-planar with the rule, while in other embodiments the vernier is co-planar except for a zero-point marker. Additionally, the vernier is disclosed as an integral part of the body, or, alternatively, as a separate insert into the body. The vernier divides twenty-four one-eighth inch divisions into twenty-five equal parts, enabling vernier measurements in units of thousandths of an inch. Additional attachments including further bodies and verniers enable the standard rule to measure a wide variety of dimensions, while also enabling the use of either fractional or decimal representation on an easy to read scale.

Abstract: A tile measuring device including a pair of transparent, slidably connected plates having reference indicia thereon. A rotatable handle, defining a threaded aperture, is mounted on a threaded member, fixed to the bottom plate, and is rotatably adjustable from a first position wherein the top and bottom plates are fixedly secured relative to one another, to a second position wherein the top and bottom plates may be slidably adjusted. The top and bottom plates each include linear dimension markings along at least one side of the device such that when the top and bottom plates are telescopically adjusted and fixed relative to one another the markings provide linear dimension references. In addition, each of the top and bottom plates include longitudinal markings for use in cutting notches in tiles.

Abstract: An educational apparatus used for the teaching of mathematical operations that use fractions. A triangular shaped ruler prism has three different side surfaces that are joined together at three common edges with four different numerical value measuring fractional scales on each side surface and a whole unit scale of which all other scales are a fractional part thereof. All scales have the same length as the whole unit scale. Preferably on each prism side there are two different fractional measuring scales adjacent and aligned with each other in a straight line at one of the common joined prism edges. Fractional scale measuring units that have been used include; the whole unit, half units, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths, eights, ninths, tenths, elevenths and twelfths units. By stated procedures employing marking on a writing surface, fractions may be represented by lengths and added or subtracted from each other as well as mixed numbers with fractions.

Abstract: A tape measure is provided in which orientation of the primary indicia are varied to allow reading of measurements from either side. A centering strip is provided which gives fractional values corresponding to the primary indicia, thus allowing easy calculation of certain fractions of a given measurement. Other visual aids for improving ease of use are provided, such as stud centering marks, distinct colors and variations in numeral and hatch mark sizing.