Patent ID: 6923592

Claim:
A ball and socket rollers load latch mechanism comprising: a first socket roller having a first planar end and an opposite second planar end, a first semi-socket being formed therein between said first and second ends thereof; a second socket roller having a first planar end and an opposite second planar end, a second semi-socket being formed therein between said first and second ends thereof; a rollers retainer, said first and second socket rollers being rotatably connected to said rollers retainer at said first and second ends, respectively, thereof, wherein said first and second socket rollers are mutually adjacent, wherein each of said first and second socket rollers respectively rotates on a mutually parallel rotation axis, and wherein the rotation axis of the first socket roller is adjacent said first semi-socket, and wherein the rotation axis of the second socket roller is adjacent said second semi-socket; and a lock ball movable along a striking axis which is perpendicular to said rotation axes; wherein rotation of said first and second socket rollers is between at least a socket open position and a socket closed position, wherein at said socket closed position said first and second semi-sockets collectively form a lock socket, wherein said lock ball is receivably trapped in said lock socket in substantially tight relation thereto by said lock ball being received by said first and second semi-sockets as said first and second socket rollers rotate from said open socket position to said closed socket position; and wherein said rollers retainer substantially abuts said first and second ends of said first and second socket rollers, respectively, at an intersection of an imaginary line oriented parallel to the rotation axes and passing through said lock socket.