Patent ID: 7398664

Claim:
A handle and housing assembly, comprising: a) a housing having a front side and a rear side, and defining a forwardly facing recess of circular shape formed by four contiguously extending pie-shaped, quadrant-like recess sectors arrayed about a forwardly-rearwardly extending principal axis that intersects a center point of the circular recess; b) a shaft extending along the principal axis through the housing and turnable about the principal axis; c) a handle i) sized and shaped to be nestable within the circular recess in each of four orientations where, when nested, the handle overlies central parts of different ones of the four recess sectors, and ii) pivotally connected to the shaft at a central location within the recess on the front side of the housing by a handle-to-shaft connection that permits the handle to pivot relative to the shaft between positions nested in the recess wherein the handle overlies a central part of different ones of the recess sectors, and positions extended forwardly from the recess wherein the handle is graspable to turn the shaft about the principal axis; d) a control member on the rear side of the housing coupled to the shaft by a member-to-shaft connection that permits the control member to turn about the principal axis to and from a specific orientation; and, e) wherein the member-to-shaft connection has engageable formations that can be assembled in a first way which requires the handle to turn in one direction about the principal axis when turning the control member to the specific orientation, and in a second way that requires the handle to turn in an opposite direction about the principal axis when turning the control member to the specific orientation.