Patent Application
20230287693
The invention relates to a device for facilitating and easing the work of gauging the reveal between the edge of the door jamb to the trim, window sill to the trim, the underflooring to the baseboard, and locating studs. In particular to a device which simplifies and unifies the operations of gauging the reveal between the edge of the door jamb to the trim, window sill to the trim, the underflooring to the baseboard, and locating studs.
Historically carpenters used at least 3 different tools such as a carpenters square, measuring tape, and stud finder to accomplish properly gauging the reveal of the trim to the door jamb or window sill, and gauging the reveal of the baseboard to the underflooring. The customary steps to properly applying trim to a door jamb or window sill, or the baseboard from the underflooring, or window sill would be to first measure and mark the proper distance from the door jamb to the trim, window sill to the trim, or the underflooring to the baseboard using a measuring tool. Next, change the measuring tool to a carpenters square so to align and mark the edge of the trim or baseboard location to be square with the door jamb or underflooring, and then change the carpenters square to a stud finder so to locate the stud to which the trim will be attached. This constant exchanging and handling of different tools to achieve one desired result wastes a great deal of time and effort which slows the completion of the job thereby increasing the expense of completing the job.
While there exist numerous measuring devices such as rulers and tape measures, numerous devices for squaring trim to window sills, door jambs, etc. and the use of magnets to find studs, there is no discovered prior art as to the unique combination of these abilities in a unified package with the utility and convenience as presented in the invention.
The heretofore unfulfilled requirement for a means of quickly and efficiently gauging the reveal between the edge of the door jamb to the trim, window sill to the trim, the underflooring to the baseboard, and locating the studs to which the trim will be attached is herein fulfilled through the invention.
The invention incorporates into a single body different means for gauging the reveal between the edge of the door jamb to the trim, window sill to the trim, the underflooring to the baseboard, and locating studs.
In one instance, measuring the distance from the door jamb to the trim is so accomplished by placing the invention with one edge of the invention specific to measuring the reveal of a door jamb abutted against the door jamb and an edge of the invention associated to the aforementioned edge specific to measuring the reveal of a door jamb being abutted against the trim thereby properly and squarely locating the trim relative to the door jamb by virtue of the distance between the edge of the invention specific to measuring the reveal of a door jamb and the edge of the invention associated to the aforementioned edge.
In another instance, measuring the distance from the window sill to the trim is accomplished by placing the invention with one edge of the invention specific to measuring the reveal of a window sill abutted against the window sill and an edge of the invention associated to the aforementioned edge specific to measuring the reveal of a window sill being abutted against the trim thereby properly and squarely locating the trim relative to the window sill by virtue of the distance between the edge of the invention specific to measuring the reveal of a window sill and the edge of the invention associated to the aforementioned edge.
In another instance, measuring the distance from the baseboard to the underflooring is accomplished by placing the invention with one edge of the invention specific to measuring the reveal of the baseboard abutted against the baseboard and an edge of the invention associated to the aforementioned edge specific to measuring the reveal of the baseboard being abutted against the underflooring thereby properly and squarely locating the baseboard relative to the underflooring by virtue of the distance between the edge of the invention specific to measuring the reveal of the baseboard and the edge of the invention associated to the aforementioned edge.
To facilitate the mounting of the trim it is important to locate the wood or metal stud to which the trim will be attached. The present invention accomplishes this by the use of a magnet embedded within the invention. When the invention is placed close to a ferric metal or to ferric metal embedded within the wood stud the magnet exerts an attractive force to the metal stud, or to metal embedded within the wood stud. This force can be felt by the user of the invention thereby alerting the so user of the invention that the invention is located close to a stud.
These and other such features of the invention will become apparent in the subsequent Figures.
The embodiments and examples described only serve for explaining the invention; however, they are not supposed to limit the spirit and the scope of the invention.
