Abstract: An interlock system for a multi-draw cabinet having a latching module for each drawer which is actuated by the movement of the draw between an open and a closed position relative to the cabinet. Each latching module includes a base which is mounted to the side wall of the cabinet and includes an actuating lever which is pivotally mounted on the supporting base and is moved between a non-actuating position and an actuating position through an inter-connection between the lever and the drawer. An elongated transmitter extends between each adjacent latching module for relative longitudinal movement between adjacent latching modules within appropriate vertical passageways in the modules. Each latching module has a horizontal passageway which intersects the vertical passageway and which contains a horizontally-extending transmitter which is moved toward the vertical passageway by movement of the actuating lever from its non-actuating position to its actuating position upon opening of its corresponding drawer.

Abstract: A locking system for a stack of drawers in a filing cabinet comprising a single track of discrete studs or "bullets" in a string at the rear of the cabinet, and a bracket at the rear of each drawer energizing an actuator on the track to place it in locking condition relative to the slugs for all other drawers when one drawer is moved towards open position.

Abstract: A locking system for the drawers of a desk or file cabinet, etc., comprising a latch plate on each drawer, a simultaneously movable set of locking pins, one for each latch plate, and a line of discrete cylindrical elements to shift the locking pins from a single location, as by key or the like. The discrete elements are spring held, top and bottom, and can be jolted aside momentarily as an unlocked drawer is slammed to locked position.

Abstract: An interlock system for a filing cabinet or the like preventing any two drawers from being open at one time, the system using a generally vertical line of contacting balls as a lock, and means on each drawer to rigidify the line of balls upon the opening of a single drawer, and returning the line of balls to a loose, unlocked condition upon closing the drawer.