Patent ID: 8127461

Claim:
A measuring and marking device for use in the precise taking, reading, replicating, and marking of a measurement with a tape measure, wherein the device comprises: a frame comprising: a stop member comprising a horizontally extending bar having a front side opposite to a bottom side; a scribe member comprising a front wall which extends from the front side of the bar, and which terminates at a point oppositely situated from the bar; an anterior flange oppositely situated from a posterior flange, wherein each of the anterior and posterior flanges vertically extend from the front side of the bar; and a first indicator member which extends from the anterior lateral flange and a second indicator member which extends from the posterior lateral flange, wherein each of the first and second indicator members slope downwardly from the respective anterior and posterior lateral flanges and towards each other to each terminate at a respective tip, each tip having a front side opposite to a back side; wherein the front side of the bar, the front sides of the tips of the first and second indicator members, and the point of the scribe member are coplanar; and further wherein, when the device is positioned on the tape measure, the tips of the first and second indicator members overly and are aligned with measuring indicia on a tape blade of the tape measure when the tape blade is extended from a housing of the tape measure.