General-purpose measuring implement usable in the field, and its datatransfer method

Abstract From the Canadian patent

66600-128, Abstract, The invention relates to a general measuring implement usable in the field or in otherwise difficult circumstances and in particular applicable to the measuring of raw timber and the recording of the measurement data, and to a method usable with this, implement, for entering into the electronic memory of the implement the data to be recorded. In the method a data item to be pre-, sented in alphanumeric form is entered into the electronic memory of the implement and in addition to this at least one separate measurement value. In this case, each position of substantial length distinguishable from the others, or value of the sensor yielding, the said measurement value has …