Abstract: A door knob lever for use by disabled persons to assist in turning a door knob. A truncated bracket including a central section and two sloping sections extending from the central section is provided with a handle extending, substantially at right angles from one side of the central section of the truncated bracket and a hook plate extending, also substantially at right angles, from the opposite side of the central section of the truncated bracket and extending in the opposite direction as the handle. Friction pads are secured to the two sloping sections of the truncated bracket to grip a door knob when the hook plate is about the neck of the door knob to cause movement of the ball of the door knob by movement of the lever.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 13, 1997
Date of Patent:
March 16, 1999
Assignee:
Independent Living Products LLC
Inventors:
Edward J. Mutone, Mitchell I. Rapoport, Gregory R. Becker
Abstract: A door knob lever is described, for use primarily by disabled persons, as including a rotatable hook at one end thereof for hooking around the base of a common door knob. A right angle or arcuate shaped bracket is also included, with the rotation of the hook taking place with respect to the bracket. The other end of the lever provides a handle for enabling the gripping of the lever, so that the user grips the handle of the lever, swings it to cause the hook to encircle the door knob at its base, rotates the bracket to engage the door knob gripping surface and then rotates the lever to cause the door knob to rotate.