Patent ID: 11920925
Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A measuring tape device comprising:
a housing having an aperture;
a reel assembly enclosed within the housing; and
a blade having a first end configured to extend from the housing through the aperture and a second end configured to be wound on the reel assembly;
wherein the reel assembly is configured to alternately allow the blade to be withdrawn from the reel assembly through the aperture or received in the aperture onto the reel assembly via operation of a spring,
wherein the spring is anchored to a post disposed within the housing at a first end of the spring and operably coupled to the blade at a second end of the spring,
wherein the post comprises a slot dividing the post into a first post portion and a second post portion, and
wherein each of the first and second post portions have rounded edges at portions thereof that define lateral boundaries of the slot.