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Article: Taiwanese Inventor Develops Measuring Tape Enhanced Structure
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 10, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- Shih-Lin Lee of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed an enhanced structure for measuring tape.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "An enhanced structure for measuring tape, comprises: a tape casing having a wheel disposed in its interior, a metal tape being wound around said wheel and having a tail end fixedly connected to said wheel so as to generate elastic force to let said tape eject automatically from said tape casing when no braking force is applied; a press button pivotally connects to the top of said tape casing, said press button having a curved tooth face disposed at top of inner wall thereof, with said ...