A tape dispenser that includes a gripper pad and a tape reel. The tape reel includes a spool around which a tape is wound. The spool is enclosed in a housing that includes an opening through which a free end of the tape is allowed to pass through. The free end of the tape includes a fastener such as a hook. The housing also includes a tape lock and a roller handle. The gripper pad includes at least one suction pad, receiving means for a stake, or both. The tape reel and the gripper pad each include receiving means for a connecting means. The connecting means is a wedge connector, a magnetic connector, or the like, and combinations thereof. The tape reel is allowed to freely rotate while the gripper pad remains affixed onto a surface such as a floor, a lawn or a turf.

An electronic tape measure for measuring a body part includes a housing having a tape outlet opening, a tape drum rotatably mounted in the housing around an axis of rotation, and a tape having length markings attached with an inner end to the tape drum, windable thereon and extendable out of the tape outlet opening. The axis of rotation defines an axial, a radial and an azimuthal direction. Furthermore, the tape measure comprises the following modules: a read-out module adapted to read out the markings; a data processing module connected to the read-out module and adapted to provide a measuring instruction to the user and to process a readout length measurement; an input module connected to the data processing module and adapted to receive input from the user; and a display module connected to the data processing module and adapted to display the measurement instruction and arranged on the housing in a radial-azimuthal plane, wherein the display module comprises a screen.

A deployable stabilizer cooperates with a tape of a tape measure to stabilize the tape measure with the tape extended therefrom to facilitate hands free stability of the tape measure. The stabilizer may be pivotally coupled with a body of the tape measure to facilitate pivoting between a deployed and a stowed position. The stabilizer may comprise an extendable member that is guided by channels defined by tape measure body. Locations or orientations of pivot holes or channel guides may result in contact of the bottom of the tape in an extended position with a top of the stabilizer in a deployed position to facilitate stability of the tape measure body.

Disclosed is a measuring tape which includes a housing, a reel received in the housing, and a blade wound on an outer surface of the reel and withdrawn or restored from an entrance of the housing, wherein the housing includes a base which adheres to an outside by using a magnetic force, a first receiving groove providing at least a pair of first lower boundaries parallel to a first direction in which the blade is withdrawn and a second receiving groove providing at least a pair of second lower boundaries parallel with a second direction crossing the first direction are formed on a bottom of the base, and the base is able to be fixed in a two-axis direction with respect to a curved structure by using the first lower boundaries or the second lower boundaries.

According to an embodiment, a tape measure comprises an accessory removably coupleable to either side of the housing. According to another embodiment, a tape measure comprises an accessory removably coupleable to the housing via a locking mechanism that holds the accessory at a plurality of desired orientations. According to another embodiment, a tape measure comprises a slide lock, where movement of the slide lock from a locked position into an unlocked position requires depression of the actuator towards the interior of the housing. According to another embodiment, a motor assembly for a tape measure comprises a backer plate, a motor body, and a spring, where a bond is applied therebetween. According to another embodiment, a motor assembly for a tape measure comprises a motor body and a spring, where one of a metallurgical bond or an adhesive is applied between the motor body and the spring.

Disclosed is a measuring tape which includes a housing, a reel received in the housing, and a blade wound on an outer surface of the reel and withdrawn or restored from an entrance of the housing, wherein the housing includes a base which adheres to an outside by using a magnetic force, a first receiving groove providing at least a pair of first lower boundaries parallel to a first direction in which the blade is withdrawn and a second receiving groove providing at least a pair of second lower boundaries parallel with a second direction crossing the first direction are formed on a bottom of the base, and the base is able to be fixed in a two-axis direction with respect to a curved structure by using the first lower boundaries or the second lower boundaries.

A tape measure device and attachment for measuring and cutting drywall that includes a tape measure with an anchoring member disposed at the rear end of the housing and having a rear surface defining a rear aperture and a rear plane thereon and an upper surface opposing the rear surface of the anchoring member, with an anchor placement member coupled to the anchoring member, having a distal end, and operably configured to have an anchoring position with the distal end displaced a length outwardly away from the rear surface of the anchoring member, and being operably configured to have a first position along an anchoring member translation path with the rear plane non-co-planar with the bottom plane and a second position along the anchoring member translation path with the rear plane co-planar with the bottom plane.

A tape dispenser that includes a gripper pad and a tape reel. The tape reel includes a spool around which a tape is wound. The spool is enclosed in a housing that includes an opening through which a free end of the tape is allowed to pass through. The free end of the tape includes a fastener such as a hook. The housing also includes a tape lock and a roller handle. The gripper pad includes at least one suction pad, receiving means for a stake, or both. The tape reel and the gripper pad each include receiving means for a connecting means. The connecting means is a wedge connector, a magnetic connector, or the like, and combinations thereof. The tape reel is allowed to freely rotate while the gripper pad remains affixed onto a surface such as a floor, a lawn or a turf.

Systems and methods for manufacturing, implanting and using a magnetic tape measure mount to secure a tape measure or other related instrument magnetically to a user, to a user's belt, or work belt.

Disclosed is a belt holder for a tape measure, including: a holder body configured to be mounted on the belt; a rotary mount rotatably coupled to a front surface of the holder body; a locking bracket provided at the holder body or the rotary mount; and a restoring spring elastically supporting the locking bracket in one direction.