Originally Posted by
DogHouseMom
I remember those!! As I recall it also made a nip/cut on the fabric. The clerk would then use this cut as the starting point to rip the yardage for sale.
You are right. There is a little lever that the clerk would push for the measure tool to put a nip/slit in the fabric at the point where the customer wanted the fabric sale to stop. Then the clerk would tear the fabric at the slit.