Phillip W Leever

US Patent:

20050044722, Mar 3, 2005

Filed:

Sep 2, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/652932

Inventors:

Pamela Leever - Fort Myers FL, US
Phillip Leever - Fort Myers FL, US

International Classification:

B26B013/00
B26B029/00

US Classification:

030233000, 030294000, 033482000, 033483000

Abstract:

A ruler that is to be used for cutting sheets of material perpendicular to its longitudinal edges. The ruler is a longitudinal piece of rigid material that increases in thickness from one edge to the other. A cutting groove is placed into the rigid material at a thickened edge so as to aid the direction of a sharpened instrument passing through the groove while cutting the material. A hardened insert may be inserted into the groove to prevent the edges of the groove being damaged by the sharp cutting instrument. One end of the ruler has an extension of eyelet molded thereon and the other end of the ruler has a depression molded into an under surface of the ruler. Both the eyelet and the depression have a matching configuration to snap-fit into each other to thereby connect two rulers together in a rigid manner.