Lateral filing drawers

Claim 1

A filing cabinet comprising: a frame defining an enclosure and having two or more drawer openings; a door hinged to said frame at the bottom of each opening, said door being swingable downward to reach a substantially horizontal opened position and swingable upward to reach a substantially vertical closed position; link means consisting of a pair of foldable arms piviotally connected to one another at one end thereof, and at the other ends thereof to a respective one of said door and said frame, at each side of said frame to hold said door in said horizontal position; a drawer at each said opening; said drawer having roller means whereby said drawer may be rolled out of said enclosure onto said door in said horizontal opened position; and lock receiving means on a rear face of each door at the upper part thereof; one of said arms having its opposite end fixed to said door adjacent said lock receiving means; the other of said arms having finger means at its opposite end; a door locking means consisting of an elongated rail extending vertically of said frame from bottom to top of said enclosure adjacent said openings, and of lever means having one end fixedly attached to said rail and the other end adapted to engage said finger means, the engagement of said lever means being such that, when one door is in the opened horizontal position, all remaining doors are locked as a result of said one end of said lever means being engaged in said lock receiving means of closed doors.