Patent ID: 7944691

Claim:
A locking handle and pawl assembly and a removable memory cartridge or RMC, the RMC adapted for releasable attachment inside a removable memory cartridge bay or RMC Bay, the assembly adapted for securing the RMC to the RMC Bay, the RMC Bay having a bay catch opening in the top thereof, the assembly and RMC comprising: a handle with handle base and handle arm extending outwardly therefrom, the handle base includes pin holes and a handle dwell slot; a first pawl pinned to one side of the handle base, the first pawl having a pawl cam surface with a pawl bay catch, the pawl bay catch adapted for receipt in the bay catch opening in the RMC Bay and securing the RMC inside the RMC Bay; and a pair of outwardly extending brackets on a RMC enclosure or housing, the handle base and first pawl pinned to the brackets; whereby when the handle arm is rotated upwardly, the pawl bay catch on the pawl cam surface of the first pawl is lowered and released from a side of a bay catch opening in the top of the RMC Bay, the handle arm can now be used to remove the RMC from the RMC Bay.