Apparatus for controlling the operation of drawers
OwnerArnoldus Adriaan Van Wijkinventor
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Abstract
A filing cabinet which includes a number of vertically stacked housings each of which has a drawer and at least one interlocking assembly which has first and second slide members which are moved apart when the drawer is opened and which then abut a slide member or members of a respective adjacent drawer or drawers to prevent such drawer or drawers from being opened.
Claims13
An interlocking assembly for a drawer which includes first and second slide members which are movable from respective rest positions to respective limiting positions and an actuator which is movable, upon movement of the drawer, between inoperative and operative positions, and wherein the slide members are at their respective rest positions when the actuator is at the inoperative position and the actuator, when moved to the operative position, causes the slide members to move to the respective limiting positions.
Apparatus for controlling the operation of a plurality of vertically stacked drawers, the apparatus including a plurality of interlocking assemblies, one for each respective drawer, each interlocking assembly including an actuator which is movable between an inoperative position and an operative position, a first slide member on one side of the actuator, and a second slide member on an opposing side of the actuator, each slide member being slidably movable between respective rest and limiting positions, the actuator causing the slide members to move to the limiting positions when a respective drawer is withdrawn from a housing to which the apparatus is fixed, the slide members of all the interlocking assemblies being co-linear with each other with the first slide member of a lower interlocking assembly acting on the second slide member of an adjacent upper interlocking assembly.
A filing cabinet which includes a number of vertically stacked housings each of which has a drawer and at least one interlocking assembly which has first and second slide members which are moved apart when the drawer is opened and which then abut a slide member or members of a respective adjacent drawer or drawers to prevent such drawer or drawers from being opened.
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