Abstract: A housing container includes a front door plate employing spring hinges is hingedly mounted relative to the housing container, wherein the door plate includes a latch plate having a plurality of lock levers to be operated simultaneously and each independently pivotally mounted relative to an interior surface of the door plate, with the lock levers accessed through individual openings directed through the door plate. Upon displacement of the lock levers relative to a sliding lock plate, the lock plate is displaced relative to a latch flange portion within the container by displacement of a lock plate lug slidably mounted through a slot directed through the door plate below the access openings.

Abstract: A portable nursing center has a plurality of selectively locked patient drawers carried in a housing. Each of said drawers are movable between a given open position and a closed position each drawer sized and configured for holding pharmaceutical items which have been prescribed for a specific patient. At least one on demand drawer is also carried by the housing, movable between an open position and a closed position and being sized and configured to hold pharmaceutical and other nursing items used on an as needed basis. A nurse enters a predetermined access data and other data, causing the unit to selectively unlock the appropriate patient drawer or on demand drawer while maintaining other drawers in a locked condition. Whenever the patient is given medicine or otherwise treated the nurse enters or receives information pertinent to that treatment. The unit has a transmitter/receiver to transmit and receive such patient information.

Abstract: An interlock mechanism is provided for furniture units and the like of the type having two or more drawers, and functions to permit only one of the drawers to be opened at any given time, so as to avoid tipping, etc. The interlock includes a plurality of blocks slidably mounted in a vertical guide, with an actuator provided for each drawer. Each actuator comprises an arm having an upper portion pivotally mounted to the guide, and a lower portion with a notch shaped to selectively engage a pin on the associated drawer, such that closing and opening the drawer rotates the arm between corresponding unlocked and locked positions. Each actuator also includes a wedge pivotally connected with the lower portion of the arm, and slidably supported on the guide to reciprocate inbetween adjacent blocks when the associated drawer is opened, so as to lock closed all remaining drawers.

Abstract: A security door phone device, to enable a user to speak with a person at their front door regardless of whether the user is in their home at the time, the device including a solid, durable, weather-resistant casing adapted to be securely mounted to a wall surface, the casing including a securely attached cover panel, a speaker and a microphone, a telephone line connection utilizing the speaker and microphone for normal two-way telephone communication, a memory adapted to store a selection of predetermined telephone numbers corresponding with select time periods, and a dialing button protruding through the cover panel and being structured and disposed to auto dial one of the predetermined numbers corresponding with the time period when the button is pushed. The device is easily programmed such that when the dialing button is pushed, the predetermined number will be called. A key pad and display enable the phone numbers and corresponding select time periods to be entered into memory.

Abstract: An electronic interlock for locking a file cabinet (10, 100) and for limiting the number of drawers (14, 114) to be accessed at any given time. An input keyboard (20, 120) receives an input code to be compared with a prestored access code. If the codes do not match, an unlock signal is not produced. If the input code matches the access code, a processor (28, 148) renders the storage assembly (10, 110) accessible. The processor (28, 128) will receive a drawer selection number from the input keyboard (20, 120) user and will unlock a lock (16, 116) associated with the selected drawer (14, 114). Sensors (34, 134) sense the position of the drawers (14, 114) and disable the processor (28, 128) when one of the drawers (14, 114) is in the open position.

Abstract: A cabinet for housing modular electrical switchgear is formed essentially by a case on which a cover is tightly fitted, and by a window disposed on the cover to seal an opening arranged on the cover. The window bears on the edge opposite its rotation axis, a lug having a recess receiving a clip-in locking button. The locking button has clip-in fingers which exert a return force on the button in the locked position. The button comprises holes coming in the locked position opposite conjugate holes of the cover for a sealing wire to be fitted. The fixing screws of the cover to the case have holes for the passage of a sealing wire which emerges in an outwardly curved passage, for ease of insertion of the sealing wire.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for securing items in a storage unit comprise providing a cabinet with a plurality of drawers. Each drawer can be individually sealed by a break lock pull-tight security seal. As a security seal for a particular drawer is twisted and broken, items can then be obtained from the drawer. If a seal has been broken, a visual indication is made that the drawer has either been opened or tampered with. The inventory can thus be quickly and easily checked on a recurring basis without requiring each individual drawer to be checked since only drawers with broken seals need to be checked. The cabinets can be used to store pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, industrial supplies and/or any other supply for which an inventory must be maintained.

Abstract: A medicine cabinet and jewelry box combination comprising a plurality of separate compartments in a single wall hung cabinet, each in side by side relationship, each having its own door pivotally mounted on a vertically extending hinge pin or pins to open and close in a horizontally extending arcuate path, at least one of the plurality of compartments, constructed to store jewelry items on hooks, on pivotally mounted rods, on shelves and in drawers and at least one of the compartments constructed to store medicinal items, the compartments to store medicinal items being constructed to prevent vapors, caustic substances, toxic substances and odors from reaching the jewelry items stored in the jewelry compartments both when the door to the jewelry compartments is open as well as when closed.

Abstract: A flexible shield panel is movably affixed between two U-shaped tracks and mounted in a jewelry store type glass top display case to protectively cover the jewelry display tray shelf. The U-shaped tracks are installed in the solid end walls of the display case with one longer track section horizontally positioned above the jewelry display tray shelf in close proximity to the shelf and the other longer track section below the display tray shelf. Elliptical discs attached by shafts to the edges of the flexible shield panel fit captively in interfaced lipped grooves which are track channels in the U-shaped track structure. The discs slide in the channel. In some applications, the discs can be sufficiently rounded and axled to turn in the track channel. The flexible shield panel is approximately half as long as the tracks and can be manually pulled along the tracks to an upward position closely covering a display tray of jewelry on the display tray shelf.

Abstract: One end of an internal barrier assembly is attached to a forward side of a cabinet below a door of the cabinet by bolt and nut fasteners threadably assembled together at the exterior of the cabinet to be readily visible to an observer inspecting similar bolt and nut fasteners for the cabinet door, all such fasteners preferably being disposed on a common face of the cabinet. The bolt and nut fasteners have holes therein through which a wire loop of a lead security seal is wound and the integrity of all seals may be visibly observed without opening the door.

Abstract: A post office locker allows for delivery and safe storage until pickup of packages in one or more storage compartments each fitted with an access door provided with a custodian lock under the sole control of a mailman and an access lock adapted to be operated for access door opening purposes by a key supplied by the mailman to an intended recipient of a package. The access lock features an improved latch device arranged to cooperate with the custodian lock for defining two separate latch positions in which the custodian lock is constrained against rotation towards its door locked position.

Abstract: An arc-proof shield for covering a rectangular switch gear compartment having slotted channels secured to the inner face of each side wall thereof; the shield comprises a metallic cover consisting of a rectangular panel and flanged. Flaps are mounted on three of the flanged walls, each flap having a swivel portion receivable in a slotted channel of the compartment. A pair of handles are mounted frontwardly of the panel, each having a portion traversing the panel and connected to a link member associated with the swivel portion of pair of flaps so that actuation of the handles causes the swivel portion of the flaps to move in and out of the slotted channels of the compartments.

Abstract: A towel dispenser which includes a mechanism for eliminating towel sidewise displacement, a device for keeping a front lid open, and a locking device.

Abstract: An antitheft device for a car stereo mounted in the dashboard of a motor vehicle having bores extending through the front panel of its cabinet, the device comprising (i) release pins insertable through the respective bores, (ii) a latch plate movably attached to a side face of the cabinet to engage with a portion of the dashboard and disengageable therefrom be being moved by contact with the release pins when the release pins are inserted through the respective bores to thereby render the car stereo removable from the dashboard, (iii) a blocking plate for openably blocking a space between the latch plate and the bores, (iv) electromagnet form opening the blocking plate with an electromagnetic force, and (v) control circuit for controlling the operation of the electromagnet to hold the circuit out of operation at least while the engine key of the motor vehicle is not turned to "ON" position.

Abstract: A laboratory fume hood with at least two vertically-movable sashes and with a control in the form of a multifunctional sash lock that may be selectively positioned to allow only one sash to be opened at a time, or to permit both sashes to be opened but only partially, or to allow both sashes to be opened fully.

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: Dispensing shelves for cabinet-type vending machines having a plurality of different sized helical feeder coils all on the same level for advancing articles interposed between the convolutions of the coils to a delivery opening. The width of the troughs holding the coils is variable on the same shelf level and the placement of the helical feeder coil within a trough is variable. The shelf is of either a sheet metal or a molded, high-density plastic type material. Drive units for the helical coils are removably mounted for operation without fastening devices and are adjustably laterally mounted within a single trough. A unique shelf support rail unit maintains the shelf side panels of the vending machine against lateral movement and bending. Further, a unique door closure member maintains the shelves in their vending positions at all times when the door is closed.

Abstract: A beverage making device and a method of serving beverages to guests in a motel room, hotel room or similar facilities. A one-time use key is provided to control operation of the beverage making device and a disposable cartridge containing infusion material such as coffee, tea and the like is supplied to the guests along with the key by the desk clerk or other attendant when the guests register in the motel or hotel so that a beverage making apparatus in the room occupied by the guests can be operated only once but at any time by the guests without the attention of any motel or hotel personnel to enable the guests to make a beverage when desired.

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.

Abstract: An improved locking system for furniture of the type having a plurality of drawers, at least one of which is locked from a remote position through a keyed operator module by translating a slide bar to interfere with one of the drawers in a locked position. A flexible, rotatable cable extends between the operator module and a connector/actuator module associated with the slide bar. The connector/actuator module comprises a crank with an integral shaft and rotatable, eccentric lug which is directed in an L-shaped slot in a slide plate. Rotation of the cable imparts translatory movement to the slide plate which is followed by the slide bar. In another aspect of the invention, the operator module, which is geared to the cable through a translatable rack, causes extension of a bolt on the rack to lock a second drawer simultaneously as the slide bar realizes a locked position.

Abstract: A latching system for releasably locking a door to a housing includes an actuating handle means rotatably connected to the door for controlling the operation of the latching system, and cooperable latching members connected to the housing and door, respectively. One of the cooperable latching members being rotatably connected to the handle means at a location spaced from the rotatable connection between the handle means and the door. Spring means engaging the latching member connected to the handle means for biasing it into a predetermined orientation relative to the handle means and for assisting in maintaining that predetermined orientation as the handle means is rotated in a first direction to move the latching member into engagement with the other cooperable latching member attached to the housing, and to thereafter permit relative rotational movement between the handle means and the latching member connected to it to thereby draw the door into sealing engagement with the housing.

Abstract: A device for locking a front cover attached to a bank note container box to cover the opening of the box. The device securely locks the front cover in the closed condition when the box is removed from the automatic money depositing and disbursing machine, and releases the front cover automatically when the box is held in position within the machine. The device comprises, in combination, an opening and closing cam and an unlock cam mounted to the machine body, and a lock member and a first unlock lever mounted to the side plate of the box. When the box initially inserted in the machine body is moved to be pulled out, the unlock lever is raised by the unlock cam so that the lock member releases the front cover from the locked condition in which it is locked in the open position. Thereafter the front cover is slowly closed by the action of the opening and closing cam. Then the lock member is moved by the action of a biasing spring to the position for locking the front cover.

Abstract: A locking and extraction mechanism for a rack mounted component uses a selectively actuable extraction hook slideably retained in a lock block for engaging in a first position of the hook a peripheral edge of the rack mounted assembly. The hook is connected to a handle which is grasped by an operator to enable the rack mounted assembly to be partially withdrawn from the rack and concurrently disconnected from an electrical connector mounted on the rack. Conversely, subsequent to the rack assembly being fully inserted into the rack to make electrical connections with the electrical connector, the hook is longitudinally rotated by a rotation of the handle to a second position wherein the handle is against the face of the rack mounted component to lock the component into the rack while the hook concurrently engages a surface on the lock block to prevent the handle from being withdrawn.

Abstract: A ski locker building is disclosed having rows of lockers each configured to receive the mid-portion of a pair of skis so as to confine same against lengthwise removal. Recesses in upper and lower plate members of each locker receive a skier's laterally inserted skis and poles whereafter a locker door is closed to constitute a barrier to ski and pole removal. A door jamb is of tubular construction to house lock mechanisms serving adjacent locker doors. A plunger type switch acts on a door mounted plate to urge the door to an open position in those instances where a latching solenoid is rendered inoperable by a computer controlled circuit including a circuit interrupter to cause cycling of the solenoid.

Abstract: A filing cabinet with a frame defining an enclosure and having two or more drawer openings; a door is hinged to the frame at the bottom of each opening, each door being swingable downward to reach a substantially horizontal position and swingable upward to reach a substantially vertical closed position; links are provided to connect the frame to the door to hold the door in the horizontal position; a drawer is provided at each opening and is mounted on rollers so that it may be rolled out of the enclosure onto the door in the opened position; the doors are locked in the vertical position when one of the doors is in the horizontal position.

Abstract: A storage system utilizing both shelving and drawers mounted between supports in which the drawers may be locked individually or in concert for security purposes. The shelves are mounted to the support members above a number of drawers slidably mounted between the support members. A locking channel, adjustable in length to accommodate the number of drawers desired, is slidably mounted within a similarly adjustable housing at the rear of the storage system to engage operatively pawls mounted at the rear of the drawers. The locking channel is moved vertically by a spring-biased locking mechanism causing openings in the locking channel to come into proper alignment so that the locking channel engages the pawls to lock the drawers in concert or disengages from the pawls to unlock the drawers in concert. The angular design of the pawl arms allows drawers remaining open during the locking procedure to be individually closed and locked thereafter.

Abstract: A rotatable latch, as for the door of an enclosure, has a positive indication of latching, the indication capable of being felt and heard. A rotatable latch member mounted, for example, on the door, has a radially extending finger which engages with a latch plate mounted on the door frame. The latch plate has an inclined surface up which moves the finger, against a spring bias. At the end of the inclined surface is a detent into which the finger snaps, under the action of the spring bias, when the rotatable latch member is in a fully latched position. The snapping of the finger into the detent can be both felt and heard.

Abstract: A lock arrangement is provided for office furniture units, such as desks, credenzas and the like, that include one or more pedestals defining at least one closable compartment in the nature of a drawer, a cabinet, et cetera, having a mechanism to lock the compartment closed, and a top extending the length of the unit. The lock arrangement is particularly adapted for in-top installations, and comprises a primary lock mounted in the top, and a channel which opens downwardly from the lower surface of the top adjacent the forward edge thereof. A connector device is mounted within the channel, and mechanically interconnects the primary lock with the compartment lock mechanism, such that manipulation of the primary lock locks and unlocks the compartment. A removable cover assembly encloses the channel, and preferably comprises two covers which are positioned over opposite ends of the channel.

Abstract: An interchangeable lock assembly for a vertical file cabinet having plurality of drawers includes a self-locating bracket affixed to the interior cabinet side adjacent the cabinet top, a lock bar extending vertically along the cabinet side between the cabinet drawers for engaging and disengaging the drawers, a lock operating arm pivotally connected to the bracket and a lock which may be either of the rotary type or the plunger type for engaging different respective surfaces of the lock operating arm to cause the lock operating arm to vertically move the lock bar.

Abstract: Automatic terminal machines for banking transactions utilize a document dispenser for delivering bank notes to a customer. The document dispenser moves the bank notes from a storage bin by means of a picker mechanism that moves along a path profile established by the configuration of a pair of cam tracks and associated cam followers. The picker mechanism includes vacuum cups for lifting the first document from a stack in the storage bin for delivery into a document transport. Connected to the vacuum cups is a vacuum/pressure supply that includes a multiple chamber cylinder that provides both vacuum and pressure synchronized with operation of the picker mechanism. The piston is pivotally mounted to enable swivel action when driving the interconnected pistons in respective chambers. When provided, the document dispenser includes a cassette having a loading door and an unloading door, each separately equipped with a locking device.

Abstract: A cash box for paper currency has an opening therein through which a bill can be introduced into that cash box to form part of a stack of paper currency within that cash box. A closure is movable away from that opening to an open position to permit a bill to be introduced through that opening and stacked; and that closure is movable to a closed position adjacent that opening to prevent the removal of paper currency from that stack of paper currency. A latch for the closure permits the closure to be moved between the open and the closed positions; and the latch will, whenever that closure has been moved to open position and then to closed position, thereafter automatically prevent unauthorized movement of that closure out of closed position.

Abstract: A post office locker for use in the delivery of both letters and packages to tenants of a multiple tenant building or the like, wherein packages are stored in appropriately sized storage cabinets to which access may be gained by intended recipients by use of access keys placed by a mailman in the letter boxes of such recipients. Each cabinet is fitted with a latch mechanism permitting recipients to return doors of cabinets from which packages have been removed to locked condition in a manner providing for the "capture" of the access keys until removed by a mailman for subsequent use. Preferably, the doors are fitted with return mechanisms providing for locking of such doors automatically upon return thereof into closed condition.

Abstract: A laboratory fume hood with at least two vertically movable sashes that are operatively coupled together by a sash lock that prevents both of the sashes from being opened at the same time. Opening of one sash automatically flips a pivoted lock into locking engagement with the other sash. Thus, one of the sashes must be closed before the other can be opened. This prevents the excessive waste of heated or cooled room air being sucked out through the fume hood.

Abstract: An automatic banking or teller machine (ATM) having a plurality of diverse-function, sealed, tamper-indicating containers which are in locked condition when loaded therein including a depository container, a divert container and one or more note containers. The containers while being loaded into the ATM have doors for access openings opened to provide ATM operative status with the containers locked to the ATM. Interlocks are provided between the containers, container locks and the ATM so as to require a predetermined sequence of assembly or disassembly operations to be carried out in assembling or disassembling the containers, without variation or omission.

Abstract: A file cabinet (10) including slidably mounted drawers (18) is provided with an interlock mechanism which prevents the simultaneous opening of two drawers. The interlock mechanism includes an elongate channel (24) having a fixed length and depth. Slidable within the channel (24) along the length thereof are blocks (42) and wedges (44). The blocks (44) include at least one end surface (48) which is at an acute angle relative to the bottom wall (28) of the channel (24). The wedge members (44) are displaceable relatively into and out of the depth of the channel. The wedge members have surfaces (52) complementary to and in sliding contact with the end surfaces (48) of the blocks. The length of the channel (28) is less than that of the combined length of all of the block (42) and wedge members (44) disposed therein and at least as long as the combined length of the block and one of the wedge members.

Abstract: Initial opening movement of a drawer in a cabinet by cam action raises a locking bar to lock the other drawers closed. In so doing the locking bar rotates a pinion having an arm which stresses a spring carrying it past an over-center position to maintain the bar in locking position while the moving drawer travels to the fully open position. The end of the closure of this drawer by cam action returns the bar, arm and spring to their initial state. A key-lock mechanism can raise the bar to lock all the drawers shut. If the cabinet is tilted forward substantially, gravity causes a ball to run to a position to hold the pinion against rotation thereby preventing all the drawers from automatically becoming locked due to the bar running to the locking position under gravity or inertia.

Abstract: A merchandise cabinet having display and drawer bearing areas is equipped with a drawer locking apparatus comprising drawer mounted abutment means, a rigid locking frame slidably mounted for lateral movement into and out of engagement with the abutment means, and an engagement lever carried on the locking frame and extending into the path of an access door provided in the display area.

Abstract: A safety lock system for vertically stacked slideably retained storage elements, such as file drawers. The system comprises one or more locking bars vertically slideably retained in alignment in a vertical support guide channel. Two or more cam elements are pivotally secured on a respective fixed pivot axis to the support guide channel adjacent an opposed end of each of the locking bars. Each of the cam elements have a cam portion retained in planar alignment with the locking bars and an activating arm portion for rotating the cam portion about the fixed pivot axis. A displaceable space is provided below each cam element portion defined between one of the locking bar opposed ends and the cam portion. An engaging member is secured to one or more of the storage elements.

Abstract: A rack for securing equipment against theft comprises a plurality of generally rectangular shaped shelves having an upper planar support surface and a pair of diagonally extending passage ways extending to diagonally opposite corners and including openings between the passage ways and the surface of the shelf. The shelves are supported by vertical tubular support structures that communicate with the passage ways at the corners of the respective shelves. The rack includes an enclosed compartment that is secured against theft by means of a locked door. Security cables or chains extend from an anchored position inside the security closure and through the tubular members to positions on the shelves for securing to the underside of the appliances and other equipment, such that the cables are not accessible for cutting.

Abstract: In a rotary file comprising a case open at the top, a card-holding rotor rotatably mounted in the case and a cover rotatable about the axis of the rotor from a closed position to an open position, a lock mounted in a side wall of the case near the back has a locking member which, in locked position, engages a rear portion of the cover when in closed position so as to keep the cover from rotating to open position. When the lock is turned to unlocked position, the locking member is moved clear of the cover so as to allow the cover to open.

Abstract: A mechanical interlock for a hand held data processing device which prevents removal of an alternate electric power source when a separate power source is disengaged from the device and the electronic circuitry powered by it.The technical problem addressed by this invention is that of preventing adverse effect on electronic circuitry, such as loss of data stored in memory, due to removal of all electric power therefrom by assuring an uninterrupted source of electric power.

Abstract: A vendor comprising a cabinet having a front door and shelves in the cabinet for holding items to be vended, the shelves being slidable into and out of the cabinet, the vendor having a door and shelf interlock for locking the shelves in vending position in the cabinet unless the door is opened far enough to enable the shelves to be pulled out for loading without striking the door, and for locking the door in open position unless all the shelves are slid in to their vending position, the interlock operating automatically on swinging the door to open position to lock the door in open position and to unlock the shelves, and operating automatically on pushing the shelves in to vending position to unlock the door, the shelves then being automatically locked in vending position on swinging the door toward its closed position.

Abstract: Means and method for securing, in a predetermined location within a housing of a substantially stationary safe or the like and controlling access to the interior of, a portable currency or document depository having a slidable door that is normally locked closed. After insertion of the depository at said location, a barrier arm is rotated down to block removal of the depository and rotate a member into operative engagement with the door. A key irremovably carried by said arm is then insertable to unlock the door. The door is now opened by moving the member translationally one way, allowing access to the interior of the depository. The member must be moved the opposite way to close the door, and the door must be relocked by the key before the key can be withdrawn and the barrier arm rotated up to permit removal of the now relocked depository.

Abstract: A household refrigerator door is locked in its closed position by a latch, which is rotatably mounted in the door and moved between its locked and unlocked positions by a key. The latch cooperates with a catch, which is mounted on the cabinet exterior of the door gasket. The catch includes a mounting plate which is integral with a portion receiving the latch. The mounting plate is secured to a wall of the cabinet by screws extending through slots in the mounting plate, through elongated holes in the wall of the cabinet and finally into threaded holes in a nutstrip. The slots enable the mounting plate to be adjustable in one direction, and the elongated holes enable movement of the catch in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: An anti-theft housing for vehicular communication equipment utilizes a housing adapted to contain the body of the communication equipment having the face plate or front panel thereof extending outwardly from the housing by passing through an access port therein. An escutcheon plate disposed about the access port captures the front plate of the communication equipment preventing the removal of the equipment from the housing when the escutcheon plate is locked to the housing utilizing a pair of arms attached to the escutcheon plate that are located within the housing and secured thereto, by a pair of rods engaging holes in the arms and operably controlled by a key operated lock secured to the housing. The keyway of the lock is shielded by a plate secured to the housing and spaced outwardly therefrom so as to prevent tampering with the lock by unauthorized personnel.

Abstract: A vendor comprising a cabinet having a front door and shelves in the cabinet for holding items to be vended, the shelves being slidable into and out of the cabinet at the front of the cabinet when the door is open, the vendor having means for locking the shelves in the cabinet unless the door is opened far enough to enable the shelves to be slid out without striking the door, and means for locking the door in open position when any shelf is in an extended position at least within a predetermined range of extension from its position within the cabinet to prevent closing the door against a shelf.

Abstract: A drawer is provided with a covered compartment and a lock which can lock both the drawer and the cover of the compartment, or lock the cover and unlock the drawer to permit the drawer to be opened without permitting access to the compartment, or unlock both the drawer and the cover to permit access to the compartment.

Abstract: A depository to permit insertion and storage of articles as well as to protect the inserted articles from unauthorized removal. The depository includes a chest structure defining an interior chamber with closing means to prevent external access and secured to the outer face of the closing means is a lock enclosure housing having a through passage aligned with the bore of a bar member secured to the chest. A bar lock is movable within the passage and insertable into that bore. A portion of the closing means extends external to the outer face thereof and provides at least a partial cover for the lock enclosure housing.

Abstract: The specification discloses a drawer interlock system for a drawer assembly having a plurality of vertical rows of drawers. Each vertical row is provided with an interlock mechanism to prevent opening of more than one drawer at a time. Means are provided for interconnecting the interlock mechanisms for the different vertical rows of drawers to thereby prevent the opening of more than one drawer at one time in any of the adjacent rows of drawers.