Cabinet locking system

A cabinet locking system comprising

• at least one cabinet including a housing and a plurality of mutually separated openable and closable compartments in the housing, a plurality of said compartments of one or more cabinets being combined into at least one group;
• an interlocking device for locking and unlocking the compartments, said interlocking device including separate switchable locking devices mounted in the housing and assigned to said compartments;
• an access authorization device into which identification codes corresponding to said compartments are entered, a specific identification code being allocated to said at least one group;
• an electronic processing unit connected to the interlocking device and the access authorization device for controlling the locking devices in accordance with identification codes entered into the access authorization device so that when said specific authorization code is entered into the access authorization device, the compartments belonging to said at least one group are unlocked;
• means responsive to the opening of one unlocked compartment for preventing the opening of any other unlocked compartment, and
• means for selecting and changing the allocation of said compartments to said at least one group.

A cabinet locking system comprising

• at least one cabinet including a housing and a plurality of mutually separated openable and closable compartments in the housing, a plurality of said compartments of one or more cabinets being combined into at least one group;
• an interlocking device for locking and unlocking the compartments, said interlocking device including separate switchable locking devices mounted in the housing and assigned to said compartments;
• an access authorization device into which identification codes corresponding to said compartments are entered, a specific identification code being allocated to said at least one group;
• an electronic processing unit connected to the interlocking device and the access authorization device for controlling the locking devices in accordance with identification codes entered into the access authorization device so that when said specific authorization code is entered into the access authorization device, the compartments belonging to said at least one group are unlocked;
• means responsive to the opening of one unlocked compartment for preventing the opening of any other unlocked compartment, and
• means for selecting and changing the allocation of one or more groups of compartments to selected identification codes.

A cabinet locking system comprising

• at least one cabinet including a housing and a plurality of mutually separated openable and closable compartments in the housing, a plurality of said compartments of one or more cabinets being combined into at least one group;
• an interlocking device for locking and unlocking the compartments, said interlocking device including separate switchable locking devices mounted in the housing and assigned to said compartments;
• an access authorization device into which identification codes corresponding to said compartments are entered, a specific identification code being allocated to said at least one group;
• an electronic processing unit connected to the interlocking device and the access authorization device for controlling the locking devices in accordance with identification codes entered into the access authorization device so that when said specific authorization code is entered into the access authorization device, the compartments belonging to said at least one group are unlocked;
• means responsive to the opening of one unlocked compartment for preventing the opening of any other unlocked compartment, and
• power-fail safeguard means associated with said interlocking device which lock all of said compartments in event of a power failure, said power-fail safeguard means including
• an electrical actuator which assumes a first condition when receiving, electrical power and a second condition when not receiving electrical power, and
• means operatively connected to the interlocking device and responsive to the condition of the actuator for causing the interlocking device to lock all of the compartments when the actuator is in said second condition.