Blink Smart Security for Every Home. Drawer slide wedge-ended file cabinet locking system variable exit from between the interlock pieces when the drawer is closed. Amazon Renewed Like-new products you can trust. To set up interlock device 12 it is recommended to start with the file cabinet locking system variable interlock piece 30and then insert all of them, finishing with the spring load at the top. Filing cabinets are not just great for offices. Therefore, the reduction in components provides for easier and better mobilization of the cabinet, and a greater use of the storage space in a cabinet or container syste was previously available. Filing cabinets are most often equipped with locks preventing any drawers from being opened.

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Wood Composite. Wood Laminate. Wood Veneer. Search Brand. Acme Furniture. Ameriwood Home. Bankers Box. Bush Furniture. Effective date : Year of fee payment : 4. A cabinet interlocking system is disclosed for a cabinet comprising a plurality of drawers wherein the interlocking system acts to prevent more than one drawer being opened at one time.

Also, cabinet drawers are blocked from opening by a spatial constraint there being only enough space between the several spring loaded interlocking pieces to allow one and only one wedge shaped member to pass between members of one interlocking piece.

Filing cabinets and containers containing two or more drawers are used to store items, documents, heavy files, tools, supplies, and other materials. In some instances, the opening of two drawers or more in such a cabinet at the same time can cause the cabinet to tip over and possibly cause serious injury to someone or damage to the items stored in the cabinet.

In order to prevent the simultaneous opening of two drawers of such a cabinet and prevent the tipping over of the cabinet, the present invention provides a systemized mechanism where space limitations are a vital concern. The present invention, cabinets, is provided with an interlocking mechanism preventing a second drawer of the cabinet from being opened after a first drawer has been opened. The present invention is also unique in that the cabinet can be designed with different sections, such as a top section with drawers and a bottom section with drawers, or left-hand side with drawers and right-hand side with drawers.

The present invention then provides for the ability that each section could have a single drawer opened, while the other remaining drawers stay locked. Filing cabinets are most often equipped with locks preventing any drawers from being opened.

The lock is moved to a locking or closed position. The lock overrides any system designed to allow movement in a cabinet. In the prior art interlocking systems when the lock is activated no drawers can be opened at all. In the prior art cabinets, the lock must be activated or moved to a certain position to allow a drawer to open. The prior art interlock system functions to prevent the drawers from opening or only allowing one drawer to be opened where the lock is set to a certain position.

A system of locking all of the drawers and having an interlocking system that locks all but one of the drawers where space is a vital concern has not been developed until the present invention. The present invention provides for a significant number of components to be integrated and functionally combined to significantly reduce the space requirements and thereby reduce the weight of the cabinet.

The present inventive cabinet combines an interlocking system with a locking mechanism so spatial constraints in the cabinet are not an impediment, and the present invention allows for the opening of a single drawer, if desired, in the cabinet without having to adjust the locking mechanism.

As noted, the current methods employed in cabinets or containers utilized today do not solve the issue of space limitations. Further, the reduction in parts, and therefore the reduced cost in production, in conjunction with the integration of common elements utilized in the locking system and the interlocking system of the cabinet or container provide significant cost reductions. By utilizing common parts, the reduction in breakage in the number of components is reduced, and a reduction in the weight of the cabinet is a result.

Therefore, the reduction in components provides for easier and better mobilization of the cabinet, and a greater use of the storage space in a cabinet or container than was previously available. Additionally, one of the other advantages of the present invention is a set of top drawers can be isolated or controlled from a bottom set of drawers allowing a single drawer to open from the different sections of the cabinet whether an upper or lower section of the cabinet.

It should also be apparent that the present invention could be manufactured to allow for control of opening of a single drawer from a right-hand section of the cabinet or container and the opening of a single drawer from a left hand section of the cabinet or container. As noted above, the locking and interlocking mechanisms known in the prior art have suffered from a number of disadvantages.

A particular disadvantage is that many of these systems are complicated, and require complicated assembly and parts, with significant space requirements. For example, U. The interlock mechanism includes an elongated channel having a fixed length and depth. Blocks and wedges are slidable within the channel along the length thereof. This system further includes and requires a cam means and an actuator for forcing wedges into the channel.

Many systems are designed to prevent a second drawer from opening when a first drawer is already open, however, none has the added flexibility noted above of controlling sections of the drawers and allowing if desired, only a single drawer to open for that particular section. In light of the foregoing, the desirability of combining an interlocking and locking system to overcome the prior art disadvantages and space limitation can be seen in the present invention.

The present invention provides a multi-drawer cabinet having an interlock mechanism preventing two or more drawers from being simultaneously opened. The present invention provides or allows if desired the opening of only one drawer, or if the cabinet or container is sectioned, the allowance of only a single drawer to be opened in that particular section.

In addition, the following system is based on a minimal number of components of relatively easy design and assembly and employed where space is a major limitation in the cabinet housing. The cabinet interlocking system is designed for multi-drawer cabinets. The cabinet or container interlock system includes a cabinet frame, with the usual drawer housing, and a vertical support member on an inner side panel of the cabinet.

The vertical support member has slots for supporting interlock pieces. The interlock pieces are vertically stacked and member portions of the piece protrude through the slots, while the remaining portion of the interlock piece serves to space the protruding member portions of other interlocking pieces.

Each drawer has a wedge-ended member attached horizontally to a side of the drawer. The wedge-ended members are positioned to penetrate between a set of protrusions pair of interlock pieces when the drawer is opened. Only the locking interlocking members located above the opened drawer are displaced. The bottom interlocking members are not displaced on the drawers that remain closed below the opened drawer. The wedge-ended members exit from between the interlock pieces when the drawer is closed.

As the wedge-ended member penetrates the vertically stacked interlock pieces, it causes only the locking members of the interlocking pieces located above the opened drawer to be displaced vertically by the width of the wedge-ended member.

Thus, this system provides a spring load to cause the displaced interlocking pieces to return to a neutral position. The system load includes a spring; the spring helps in returning the interlocking piece members to the correct position. The spring constantly pushes down. Therefore the interlocking pieces are in vertical alignment, and the spatial constraints prevent them from being vertically displaced by more than by one drawer. Again, as noted above it is only the interlocking pieces located above the open drawer are displaced and keep the drawer from locking.

In this way, two drawers can never be opened at the same time. As noted in a cabinet or container manufactured with specific sections the present invention allows a drawer from a designated top bank of drawers to be in the open position, while allowing a second opened drawer in a separate section of drawers from a bottom bank of drawers to be opened at the same time if desired.

Any additional drawers would not be able to open. The cabinet interlock system of the present invention includes an interlocking bar in an alternative embodiment.

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