Filing system

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR FILING AND UTILIZING A LARGE NUMBER OF RECORDS CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE FOR REFERENCE BY A NUMBER OF CLERICAL PERSONNEL COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF FILING CABINETS WITH A PLURALITY OF RECORD HOLDING TRAYS EXTENDING IN SIDE BY SIDE RELATION TRANSVERSELY TO SAID CABINETS IN A GIVEN HORIZONTAL LEVEL AND WITH AN OPEN TOP EXTENDING BELOW THE TOP SURFACE OF THE TRAYS FORMING AN UNOBSTRUCTED WORK SPACE FOR RENDERING ROCORDS ACCESSIBLE FROM EITHER SIDE OF SAID CABINETS, SAID CABINETS ALIGNED IN TWO SEPARATE ROWS SPACED BY A WORK PATH FOR MOVEMENT OF AN OPERATOR LONGITUDINALLY BETWEEN SAID FILES AND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY THERETO, WORK AISLES EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE FOR ACCESS TO THE TRAYS BY OTHER PERSONNEL, SAID TRAYS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY TO SAID WORK PATH AND SAID WORK AISLES AND POSITIONED IN SIDE BY SIDE RELATION TO SUPPORT RECORDS IN TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING STACKS, AND EACH CABINET HAVING FIRST SIDE PANELS ON THE WORK AISLE SIDE PERMITTING REMOVAL OF SAID TRAYS AND SECOND SIDE PANELS ON THE WORK PATH SIDE PREVENTING MOVEMENT INTO SAID WORK PATH TO RENDER THE RECORDS AVAILABLE