Patent ID: 7240527

Claim:
A device to facilitate manipulating a key by persons having restricted finger and/or hand use, said device comprising: a key holding unit having a socket in one end thereof and means to removably attach a key to said unit; a hand tool having a hand grippable body that includes a rounded outer surface with finger engageable indentations therein, said indentations being are spaced apart from one another around an outer peripheral portion of said body to facilitate gripping and turning the same; said body having a shaft projecting therefrom that terminates in a rounded bullet like free outer end facilitating inserting the same into said socket in said key holding unit; said shaft having a portion proximate said rounded end that has a non circular in outline cross sectional shape that is matingly insertable into said socket; including a reversible ratchet drivingly interposable between said hand tool and said key holder unit; said reversible ratchet including a lever projecting beyond said tool body of said reversible ratchet so as to be readily engaged by a finger to move it from one position to another to change the direction of rotation of said shaft; and said key holding unit comprising a short length of a shaft having a socket extending there into corresponding in outline shape to the outline cross-sectional shape of a first portion of said shaft and having a short length second portion of said the short length of said shaft being split longitudinally providing a plate removably attached to said key holding unit by means of retaining there between a head end portion of said key.