Patent ID: 7232961

Claim:
In a portable, hand held device for weighing and measuring the size of luggage items; said device including a housing having a spring actuated rotary dial, said spring supported in said housing and attached to a rack that engages a pinion of said rotary dial, said rack movable in response to compression of said spring to effect rotary movement of a first read out hand of said dial about an axis and thereby register on a face of said dial weight correlated to the load on said spring, said rack connected to a luggage support hook suspended externally of said housing; said housing an upper and a lower end, and including a sub-housing attached thereto having a measuring tape therein, said sub-housing positioned on said housing adjacent said support hook at the lower end of said housing and beneath said dial face, said housing including a manual grip handle attached to the upper end, the improvement comprising: a wire rod grip handle with a generally straight connecting run joined to a first and a second depending leg attached respectively to opposite sides of said connecting run and to said housing upper end, said grip handle further including a substantially straight manual polymeric grip on said straight connecting run, connecting the first and second depending legs and said grip having a diameter at least three times the diameter of the wire rod legs; and a second hand pivotal coaxially with said first hand and including a tab for engaging the first hand upon rotation of said first hand about its axis in a first rotational sense, said second hand further including a retention detent for maintaining the second hand in a non-rotational position, said second hand further including a manually engagement reset button to over ride the retention detent and permit rotation of the second hand by manual turning about said axis, whereby the first dial and second dial will move simultaneously in response to weight suspended on said hook, said first dial returnable to a zero set position upon removal of the weight as said second dial remains in a detent position representative of the weight suspended on the hook.