US 7,546,688 B2
Parallel ruler device
Shunsuke Watanabe, Shizuoka (Japan); and Masaru Yoshida, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Off Corporation Inc., Shizuoka-ken (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 26, 2007, as Appl. No. 12/3,470.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-349955 (JP), filed on Dec. 26, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2008/0148582 A1, Jun. 26, 2008
Int. Cl. B43L 7/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 33—454  [33/403; 33/485; 33/626; 83/745] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A parallel ruler device comprising a moving body which is movable along a sliding portion provided on a main body, the moving body having a sliding counterpart sliding on the sliding portion, and being configured in such a way that a ruler face set in a portion of the moving body other than the sliding counterpart moves in parallel along with the movement of the moving body, wherein
an inclined sliding portion is set in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the main body, a direction of the ruler face of the moving body is set in a direction intersecting that of the sliding counterpart of the moving body which slides along the inclined sliding portion, and the ruler face of the moving body is configured in such a way as to move away from or near to the main body along with the movement of the moving body.