This device consists primarily of a pair of components having securement means for a measuring tape in order to quickly and accurately measure drill pipe, such as those in derricks or elsewhere, the device including a tape reel receptacle and a turnbuckle for holding it in place.

A device for use as a measuring tape and as a compass. A hollow housing generally rectangular in shape has a vertical front surface with a lower opening therein and a horizontal bottom surface with a front opening. The lower and front openings join each other. The housing has an inner partition which extends vertically upward from the bottom surface and horizontally inward from the front surface to divide the interior of the housing into a small first compartment formed between these surfaces an...

A two-function device incorporating the conventioanl tape measure and the conventional clipboard for use, one after the other, in close sequence. A modification of the invention includes a Velcro covered surface for retaining auxiliary articles such as pencils and calculators.

Two mutually exclusively operable tape measures mounted in a housing such that each tape is adapted to extend linearly from opposite ends of the housing. Each tape measure is adapted to engage a series of gears which, when engaged, turn a counter to total the distance to which the tapes are linearly extended from the housing. Only one of the two tapes may be engaged at one time. Upon the extension of either of the two tapes, the counter is actuated to register the total distance between the ends...

Housing, particularly for flexible tape measures, is made up of a pair of side members between which the reel carrying the tape or the like is journalled, and a collar member spacing the side members apart, a gap in the collar member forming a mouth. The side members may comprise dished metal discs and surrounding rings of plastics material which rings are secured to the collar member to complete the assembly. Different widths of collar member may be employed to form housings of different sizes.

A tape rule of the type including a hollow housing having a slot formed through one peripheral edge portion of the housing and including a coiled flexible measuring tape within the housing having one end thereof projectable and retractable through the slot is provided and a generally L-shaped anchor member including a pair of generally right-angularly disposed arms is also provided. The arms of the L-shaped anchor member are rigidly interconnected at adjacent ends and structure is provided for p...

A tape measure having a reel and an outer casing. The outer casing is generally elliptically shaped and is adapted to be held in the hand with the tape extending tangentially from the reel through a generally elongated slot in a sector of its elliptical peripheral wall portion intermediate the minor and major axes of the casing. This construction permits the tape to be withdrawn from the casing along a line which extends substantially parallel to the major axes of the casing without bending of t...

A linear extensible and retractible measuring instrument is provided with telescopic members combined with a casing in which is housed the measuring and reading mechanism. The instrument has a graduated measuring tape guided along a constant path by a suitable guiding means and passing in front of a transparent reading window. The instrument also has locking means for releasably locking the telescopic members in any desired position.

A remote work positioning and measuring apparatus adapted to be mounted on a variety of stock handling machines. A slidable work engaging carriage is moved along the working surface by a hand crank. A tape measure extends between the slidable carriage and the frame of the machine, being wound onto spring-loaded reels at both ends. A hand crank allows the tape to be shifted from one reel to another unless an electromagnetic lock is activated to lock the tape with respect to the movable carriage.

A measuring tape tightener for tensioning reel-type tapes between two arbitrary points, as between a nail at the free end of the tape and a nail at the case end of the tape, comprising a tape-brake movably attached to the case of the tape, and a spring mounted anchor adapted to attach the case to a nail or the like under spring tension, with the spring tension actuating the brake to prevent the tape from further unreeling.