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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2019
Easy Living Solutions, Llc, Rochester, MN (US);
Kelley Milligan Bahr, Rochester, MN (US);
Samuel M. Prabhakar, Rochester, MN (US);
Dennis J. Veerkamp, Rochester, MN (US);
Easy Living Solutions, LLC, Rochester, MN (US);
Abstract
A handheld assistive container opening device comprises two elongated arms extending from a body at an acute angle, having gripping contours on the interior arm surfaces for gripping a rotatable container cap. The arms may be rotatable though respective limited arcs about respective axes parallel to the container axis, to improve the capability to grip the cap. The device may include a movable top plate positioner, positionable over the interior of the acute angle to align a container cap with the arms, or away from the acute angle to accommodate irregularly shaped caps. The body may further include a concave finger engagement recess for application of torque from the side of a finger without gripping the device. In an exemplary embodiment, the body has the shape of an 'X' with arms extending from a pair of adjacent ends at approximately 60 degrees.