Filing Cabinet Safety Mechanism

Taking some safety precautions with the file cabinets in your office can help to prevent.

Filing cabinet safety mechanism.

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. Office filing cabinets are typically made of sheet metal or wood. 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. 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.

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. However filing cabinets are a source of many workplace injuries. These large pieces of furniture can store massive amounts of information and are useful for organizing papers. 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.

Sometimes the locking system is spring loaded. Hon lateral filing cabinets interlock mechanism is stuck. Safety mechanisms in cabinets like this often function using counterweight and thus gravity to allow the lock mechanisms to drop into place on the remaining drawers when one is pulled out.