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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2020
Apex Brands, Inc., Apex, NC (US);
Adam Lewis Baxter, Raleigh, NC (US);
Apex Brands, Inc., Apex, NC (US);
Abstract
A measuring tape device may include a housing having an aperture, a reel assembly enclosed within the housing, and a blade having a first end configured to extend from the housing through the aperture and a second end configured to be wound on the reel assembly. The reel assembly may be configured to alternately allow the blade to be withdrawn from the reel assembly through the aperture or received in the aperture onto the reel assembly via operation of a spring. The spring is anchored to a post disposed within the housing at a first end of the spring and operably coupled to the blade at a second end of the spring. The post includes a slot dividing the post into a first post portion and a second post portion. Each of the first and second post portions may have rounded edges at portions thereof that define lateral boundaries of the slot.