Patent ID: 7299558
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: B44D

Abstract:
1. A line marker, comprising: a housing having a receiving cavity and an opening communicating with said receiving cavity; a retracting unit supported within said receiving cavity of said housing; a reel coupling with said retracting unit and rotatably supported within said receiving cavity of said housing; an operating cable having an inner coupling end coupling with said reel and an outer control end extending out of said receiving cavity through said opening, wherein said retracting unit normally retracts said operating cable in said receiving cavity around said reel in a coil manner; an indicating element contained in said receiving cavity at a position that when an operating portion of said operating cable is pulled out from said receiving cavity through said opening, said indicating element is applied along said operating portion of said operating cable for marking a straight line on a surface; and an indicating element container which contains said indicating element therein and is received in said retracting unit, wherein said housing further has an operating cavity communicating with said indicating element container to allow said indicating element passing to said operating cavity, wherein said indicating element container comprises an absorbing receptor disposed in said operating cavity to absorb said indicating element and to contact with said operating cable, such that when said operating cable is pulled out from said housing, said absorbing receptor applies said indicating element along said operating cable.