Patent ID: 7370890

Claim:
A storage cabinet comprising: a container having a floor, upright side walls and a rear wall attached to and extending upwardly from said floor, and a ceiling attached to said side walls and rear wall, said floor, side walls, rear wall, and ceiling defining a storage cavity; two doors, each pivotally attached to the cabinet on opposite sides thereof, and each movable about respective pivot axes located on opposite sides of the cabinet between an open position, in which said cavity is accessible from a position forward thereof, and a closed position, in which said doors prevent access to said cavity from a position forward thereof; and a latching mechanism fixedly mounted relative to the container, said latching mechanism including at least one release member protruding forwardly from the container, the at least one release member being movable from a latched position to an unlatched position; wherein said doors may be transitioned from a latched condition, in which said latching mechanism latches said doors in the closed position in which the doors are in side-by-side relationship, to an unlatched condition, in which said latching mechanism allows said doors to move to the open position, by moving the at least one release member from its latched position to its unlatched position; and wherein the at least one release member is mounted between about 3 and 24 inches above a surface underlying the cabinet.