Actuant Corporation

Stephen J Skeels

David Lloyd Wiesemann

Thomas M Luebke

George R Steber

Dean R Walsten

Timothy E O'Connell

A pocket-sized object finder has a compact housing containing a battery, circuitry and a capacitor plate for detecting an object hidden behind a wall. The battery powered circuitry includes multiple signal indicators that illuminate in a serial manner when the object is being detected. The signal indicators are successively tapered and are mounted at a front side of a tapered end of the housing. The capacitor plate is disposed in the housing along its rear wall and is responsive to variations in capacitance that occur as the object finder is brought near and over the object. The compact housing defines a cavity with a width that is no more than two inches and one third its length. A removable access door, with a pocket clip, at an end opposite the signal indicators allows access to the battery within the housing cavity.

Compact stud finder

A hand held subsurface object locator has a pocket sized housing that contains circuitry and a power source for electrically detecting substratum objects hidden behind a surface. The housing is preferably less than two inches wide and at least three times as long as it is wide. The housing has a pocket clip preferably affixed to a battery compartment door at one end of the housing and the other end of the housing is tapered and includes a plurality of tapered indicators.

Compact subsurface object locator

A fish tape reel assembly includes a housing having a peripheral wall defining an outer wall of a cavity having a center. A housing handle is attached to the peripheral wall, and a fish tape cassette is rotatably mounted in the cavity. The cassette rotates in the cavity to wind and unwind fish tape thereon to retract or extend the tape to and from the housing in a feed direction which is perpendicular to the housing handle. A handle on the cassette pivots to lock the cassette into a locked position which prevents the cassette from rotating. A fish tape end piece is wedge shaped to create a path between surfaces requiring separation.

Growing community of inventors

Milwaukee, WI, United States of America

Stephen J Skeels