Filing Cabinet Safety Mechanism

It has been known in the past to include interlock mechanisms on filing cabinets that prevent more than one drawer in the cabinet from being opened at a single time.

Filing cabinet safety mechanism. These large pieces of furniture can store massive amounts of information and are useful for organizing papers. The present invention relates to filing cabinets and more particularly to mechanisms adapted to prevent one or more of the drawers in the filing cabinet from being opened. In a filing cabinet comprising a cabinet frame a plurality of vertically stacked drawers slidably supported within said frame for inward and outward movement with respect thereto and an anti tilt lock mechanism for maintaining the remaining drawers fixed within said cabinet when one of said drawers is pulled outwardly from said cabinet said anti tilt lock mechanism. However filing cabinets are a source of many workplace injuries.

The drawers usually use a drawer slide to facilitate opening the drawer which includes an outstop to prevent the drawer from being pulled completely out of the cabinet. What is claimed is 1. Hon lateral filing cabinets interlock mechanism is stuck. Taking some safety precautions with the file cabinets in your office can help to prevent.

To open a drawer on most metal filing cabinets a small sliding mechanism known as a thumblatch must be pressed to release and open the drawer. Sometimes the locking system is spring loaded. File cabinets are a common feature in most offices.