Cabinet drawer locking assembly
OwnerHarry Chen, Lung-Chuan Huanginventors
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Abstract
A cabinet drawer locking assembly includes a cabinet body and multiple drawers disposed in cabinet body. Each drawer has a hook backward extending therefrom. A first engaging plate is mounted to a back of the cabinet body and a second engaging plate is slidably mounted between the first engaging plate and the back of the cabinet body. A shifting plate is connected to a top of the second engaging plate. A shaft rotatably extends into the cabinet body and through the shifting plate to reciprocally move the shifting plate and the second engaging plate to make the second engaging plate selectively engaged to the hook of each of the drawers.
Claims3
A cabinet drawer locking assembly comprising:
- a cabinet body and multiple drawers disposed in the cabinet body, each drawers having a hook backward extending therefrom
- a shaft rotatably mounted on a top portion of the cabinet body, the shaft having a first end extending out of the cabinet body and connected with a lock unit that controls the shaft, and a second end extending through a bracket that is secured on a top of the cabinet body, the shaft having a hump formed within the bracket;
- at least one first engaging plate vertically secured on a back of the cabinet body, and having multiple first engaging hole defined in and extending through the first engaging plate, the first engaging plate having an Ω-shaped cross-section such that a passage is formed between the back of the cabinet body and the first engaging plate, each first engaging hole corresponding to a hook of a corresponding one of the multiple drawers to allow the corresponding hook extend through the first engaging plate and entering the passage between the back of the cabinet body and the first engaging plate;
- at least one second engaging plate slidably mounted between the first engaging plate and the back of the cabinet body and received in the passage between the back of the cabinet body and the first engaging plate, multiple second engaging holes defined in and extending through the second engaging plate, each second engaging hole selectively fully communicating with a corresponding one of the multiple first engaging hole to allow the corresponding hook extend through the first engaging plate;
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- a shifting plate laterally extending through the bracket, a square hole defined in the shifting plate to allow the shaft extend through shifting plate and corresponding to the hump of the shaft, the shifting plate is connected to the top of the at least one second engaging plate such that the shifting plate is reciprocally up/down moved with the second engaging plate to unlock/lock the drawers when rotating the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.