Hon lateral filing cabinets interlock mechanism is stuck.
Filing cabinet safety mechanism.
Taking some safety precautions with the file cabinets in your office can help to prevent.
File cabinets are a common feature in most offices.
Office filing cabinets are typically made of sheet metal or wood.
Sometimes the locking system is spring loaded.
What is claimed is 1.
To open a drawer on most metal filing cabinets a small sliding mechanism known as a thumblatch must be pressed to release and open the drawer.
However filing cabinets are a source of many workplace injuries.
The drawers usually use a drawer slide to facilitate opening the drawer which includes an outstop to prevent the drawer from being pulled completely out of the cabinet.
The present invention relates to filing cabinets and more particularly to mechanisms adapted to prevent one or more of the drawers in the filing cabinet from being opened.
These large pieces of furniture can store massive amounts of information and are useful for organizing papers.
It has been known in the past to include interlock mechanisms on filing cabinets that prevent more than one drawer in the cabinet from being opened at a single time.