Compact tool for opening bottle caps

A pocket tool for opening bottle caps comprising a flexible, elongated, narrow and flat body having two end portions and an elongated mid-portion extending between the end portions, said body having a length and width small enough for said tool to fit into a user's pants pocket;

• said body having a first side containing a plurality of transverse alternating ribs and grooves located only on said elongated mid-portion and extending substantially completely along the length of said elongated mid-portion between the two end portions;
• said body having a second side containing transverse alternating ribs and grooves located only along each end portion and an elongated flat surface extending between the ribs and grooves thereof substantially completely along the length of said elongated mid-portion;
• said end portions providing parallel finger-contacting surface means shaped to be contacted by a user's thumb and finger and pressed against a bottle cap whereby said tool may be engaged with the bottle cap and the bottle cap twisted open as a result of thumb and finger pressure on said surface means causing said tool to be pressed against the bottle cap;
• the flat surface means of the first side of said body being elevated to the plane of the first side ribs, and the second side elongated flat surface being depressed from the second side ribs;
• the first and second sides of said body being so constructed and arranged with respect to one another whereby said tool is reversible and either side may be employed to contact a bottle cap to be removed with the other side being presented for engagement by a user's thumb and finger;
• one end portion of said body being provided with a hole, extending through the body, perpendicular to the sides of the body;
• and including a small detachable chain extending through the hole by which the tool may be secured to another object for storage or the like.