Patent ID: 7287403

Claim:
A latch for fastening to a keeper in a latched position, the latch being moveable between a latched position for engaging a keeper and an open position, the latch comprising: a first pawl for engaging the keeper when the latch is in the latched position, the first pawl being rotatable between a latched position for engaging the keeper and an open position; a second pawl for engagement with the keeper when the latch is in the latched position, the second pawl being rotatable between a latched position for engaging the keeper and an open position; an actuator plate for rotating the first pawl and second pawl from the open position to the latched position, the actuator plate being slidingly displaceable in a direction in the latch between a first position in which the first pawl and the second pawl are in the latched position and a second position in which the first pawl and the second pawl are in the open position and having an actuator plate prong; an actuating means for slidingly displacing the actuator plate; a rotation means for rotating the actuating means such that the actuating means slidingly displaces the actuator plate; the rotation means having a knob for rotating the rotation means; a locking plate having a locking plate detent for engagement with the actuator plate prong and a biasing means, the locking plate being displaceable by the actuating means in the latch in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the actuator plate is slidingly displaceable by the actuating means, the locking plate being biased by the biasing means such that the latch is selectively maintained by the biasing means in the latched position in which the actuator plate prong engages a first portion of the locking plate detent or in the open position in which the actuator plate prong engages a second portion of the locking plate detent; and a lock cylinder, said lock cylinder having a locking ring rotatable using the lock cylinder, the locking ring having a locking ring protuberance for slidingly displacing the actuator plate and displacing the locking plate in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction in which the actuator plate is slidingly displaceable by the locking ring protuberance.