Patent ID: 8651595
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: E05F,E05G,E05Y

Abstract:
1. A safety cabinet comprising: a body; a pair of doors each pivotal on the body about a respective axis between an open position and a closed position; respective parallel, straight, and spaced outer guides on the body juxtaposed with the doors; respective slides displaceable independently of each other in straight lines parallel to each other along the outer guides and coupled to the doors for straight-line movement between outer positions when the respective doors are in the open position and inner positions when the respective doors are in the closed positions; a center guide between the slides; a catch between the outer guides, riding in the center guide, engageable with the slides, and movable in the body parallel to the slides; a spring between the outer guides, engaged between the catch and the body, and biasing the catch inward toward engagement with both of the slides; and a fusible closing element secured between the catch and the body and normally holding the catch in an outer position spaced outward from the slides and with the spring in a tensioned condition, whereby on fusing the element releases the catch so that it engages the slides and pushes the slides into their inner positions, thereby closing the doors.