File drawer compressor

In the combination of a file drawer, a compressor mounted by side walls of said drawer for longitudinally directed movements and locking means for releasably locking said compressor against rearwardly directed movements within said drawer, said locking means including a manually manipulatable spring rod and a pair of latch devices, said spring rod having a centrally disposed operating portion, a pair of mounting portions having their relatively inner ends fixed to said operating portion and a pair of crank arms fixed to relatively outer ends of said mounting portions, said spring rod being mounted rearwardly of said compressor by a pair of end bearing means and a pair of central bearing means arranged in a relatively spaced relationship and horizontally intermediate said end bearing means, said mounting portions having said inner ends thereof supported one by each of said central bearing means and said outer ends thereof supported one by each of said end bearing means, and said latch devices including latching elements carried one by each of said crank arms for movement between compressor locked and unlocked positions incident to movement of said spring rod between operative and release positions, respectively, the improvement comprising:

• said central and end bearing means each defining bearing surfaces and mounting slots communicating with said bearing surfaces, said bearing surfaces of said end bearing means being disposed to lie essentially parallel to and vertically above said bearing surfaces of said central bearing means, and said spring rod is characterized as being removably insertable through said mounting slots for mounting on said central and end bearing means in bearing association with said bearing surfaces thereof and as having said mounting portions subject to resilient deformation incident to mounting thereof on said central and end bearing means for resiliently retaining said spring rod in bearing association with said bearing surfaces and for normally maintaining said spring rod in said operative position.