Patent attributes
A stud marking device for easily and quickly marking locations of studs. The stud marking device includes a handle having a tubular base member having a pair of prong-like members extending outwardly from a bottom thereof, and further having three telescopic members slidably and lockingly extended within one another, and further includes a wheel being of many different sizes and being rotatably mounted to the prong-like members. As a first embodiment, the wheel has a bore radially extended through the circumference with a marker being threaded in the bore and having a marking end which extends outwardly beyond the circumference. As a second embodiment, the base member has an extended portion with a keypad member mounted thereto, an LCD display and driver disposed therein, a microcontroller having read only memory disposed in the extended portion, a spring-loaded marker disposed in a bottom of the extended portion, and a plurality of marker-triggering members securely and spacedly disposed on one side of the wheel for triggering the release of the spring-loaded marker to mark the locations of the studs.
