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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2024
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., New Britain, CT (US);
Gregory Cyr, Oakville, CT (US);
Joshua P. Schafer, Wolcott, CT (US);
Somen Rajkumar Jaiswal, Danbury, CT (US);
Joseph T. Novak, East Longmeadow, MA (US);
Matthew Christopher Green, Amherst, MA (US);
Benjamin J. Green, Stamford, CT (US);
Ke Lu, San Diego, CA (US);
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., New Britain, CT (US);
Abstract
A retractable rule assembly comprises a housing, a reel, an elongated blade, a hook, a coil spring, and a blade advancer. The reel is rotatably mounted in the housing. The elongated blade is wound on the reel and is constructed and arranged to extend outwardly through an opening in the housing. The hook is positioned on a distal end of the blade. The coil spring is configured to rotate the reel in the housing assembly in a direction to wind up the elongated blade when extending outwardly of the housing. The blade advancer is constructed and arranged to be manually engaged and moved relative to the housing and into contact with the blade and/or the reel. The blade advancer is movable against a bias of the coil spring to advance the blade in a direction that extends the blade outwardly from the housing.