Patent ID: 8082675

Claim:
A marking device for marking the location for a support for a mountable object, comprising: a compressible foam body having a front face and a back face, the front face being configured for slidable contact against a surface, the compressible foam body having a compressed configuration that is thinner and a thicker configuration that is thicker than the compressed configuration; an adhesive applied directly to the back face of the compressible foam body, the adhesive being exposable to attach the compressible foam body to the mountable object; a marker coupled to the compressible foam body and disposed below the front face in the thicker configuration and projecting to at least the front face to mark the surface in the compressed configuration; a sighting notch formed in a lateral perimeter edge of the compressible foam body and extending through the foam body from the front face to the back face; and the marker being disposed adjacent an apex of the sighting notch.