Patent ID: 7275797

Claim:
An upright multiple-drawer storage cabinet, comprising: an upright hollow housing having an upright wall arrangement including generally parallel but sidewardly spaced separate right and left upright sidewall structures which are joined by an upright rear wall structure, the housing defining therein an interior chamber, and a front side of the housing defining therein an access opening for accessing said interior chamber; each said sidewall structure having an enlarged and generally planar upright exterior sidewall; each said sidewall structure also having front and rear vertically elongate and parallel uprights at an inside surface of said exterior sidewall so that the front and rear uprights on one said sidewall structure are disposed generally in opposed and facing relationship to the respective front and rear uprights of the opposite sidewall structure, each of said front and rear uprights having a plurality of vertically-spaced openings extending horizontally therethrough, and each said sidewall structure having a generally horizontally-extending unfolded edge between corresponding ends of said front and rear uprights; each said right and left sidewall structure being identical, and wherein the front and rear uprights are mirror images of one another as defined about a vertically extending centerline of the respective sidewall structure so that each said sidewall structure may function as either a right or left said sidewall structure of the housing; a plurality of horizontally movable drawer units positioned within the interior chamber of the housing in vertically adjacent relationship one above the other, each said drawer unit having a pair of horizontally elongate slide units fixed to opposite sides thereof, each said slide unit having a rail structure provided with front and rear flanges which respectively engage in one of the openings respectively associated with the front and rear uprights associated with an adjacent said sidewall structure; and each said sidewall structure, including the exterior sidewall and the respective uprights, being a monolithic, one-piece structure formed from a single flat metal sheet.