Patent ID: 6070338
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: G01B

Abstract:
A device for measuring and cutting sheetrock, said device comprising:a housing having a wide edge guide formed at and projecting downward from one end of the base of said housing, said edge guide having a smooth surface and also having a slot defined therein;and a tape measure projecting through said slot in said edge guide and extendable at right angles to said edge guide, said tape measure being more than one inch wide, having a scale thereon which reads in ascending sequence continuously numbered from the end of said tape measure which is distal to said housing when said tape measure is extended to the end of said tape measure which is proximal to said housing and another scale thereon which reads in descending sequence continuously numbered from the end of said tape measure which is distal to said housing when said tape measure is extended to the end of said tape measure which is proximal to said housing, and having a tab projecting upward from said tape measure at the end of said tape measure which is distal to said edge guide, said tab being angled slightly inward toward said housing.