Rosscraft Centurion Kit - Precise Anthropometric Measuring Tools

Any product or practice can be improved. Rosscraft is responsive to scientists and health professionals. The Centurion Kit reflects a consensus of what is required for comprehensive anthropometry for individual and team deployment.

Rosscraft Centurion Kit

The Rosscraft line of Campbell calipers are named after the late Mr. Robert Campbell, the inventor of the double siding branch principle, an exclusive Rosscraft design feature under US patent No. 4265021. To our knowledge, it is the only caliper manufactured in the world that has long branches that do not bind under pressure at the tips.

Campbell 20 torso breadths such as acromial, transverse chest, biiliocristal, etc. are obtained with straight branches. AP Chest, and some head measurements are made using the AP Extension or Branch Pointers with olive tips. These are exactly 10 cm each (and can be calibrated using the adjustable screw and lock nut). Thus the caliper reading from AP branch tips will be 20 cm too large (easily corrected by subtracting 20 cm constant in the data entry program or spread sheet).

 

Rosscraft Campbell 20 Wide Sliding Torso Caliper L, with AP branches R

Campbell 10 small bone caliper, 18 cm, based on the sliding branch principle, has pressure plates 10 mm diameter that provide areas that encompasses the epicondyles.

Campbell 10 small bone caliper

Segmometer 4 for measuring lengths evolved from a prototype retractable carpenter or engineer's tape for use in Nigeria by Dr. Linda Blade.We affixed cotter-pin pointers with rubber bands and 5-minute epoxy glue. We found that the rustic instrument was as good or better than the classical anthropometer for obtaining projected heights and direct segmental lengths. Another prototype was designed in Australia by the University of Western Australia and used in the Kinanthropometric Aquatic Sports Project. The Rosscraft models dispense with the housing using only a flexible tape, with precision machined base and slider indicators. Replicated measures in certification courses using the Rosscraft segmometer sets a new standard for precision, 106 cm in length.