Stationery cabinet
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A stationery cabinet is a large steel
cabinet
with shelves inside, used for storing a variety of items, often stationery or books or other office supplies. It may be used for a wide variety of other storage needs, including machine parts, hardware, or many other things; but offices are the location where they are most often found.
Such a cabinet is typically about 6 feet high (182.9 cm.), although some models are about 7 feet (213.4 cm.) high, and others around 4 feet (121.9 cm.) high, sometimes referred to as counter size. They are often 3 feet (91.4 cm.) wide, and 1.5 feet (45.7 cm.) deep. The 6-foot height and this width and depth are standard measurements for the most common models; even in countries where metric measurements are used for describing the dimensions, these dimensions are often exact multiples of feet or inches, presumably harking back to designs that were originally planned in exact numbers of feet or inches. Most of these standard dimensions are the same as with lockers
, and the designs for the two types of cabinet appear to have a common ancestry; and indeed, stationery cabinets are usually manufactured by the same companies who produce lockers and filing cabinet
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Stationery cabinets come with three, four, or five steel shelves which are designed to fit across the width of the cabinet, fitted into brackets in the internal walls, and the position of these can be changed in small increments, thus allowing users to adjust the height of the shelves to their particular needs.
There are two doors at the front which swing outwards from the centre: to close and lock the cabinet, the left door is closed first, and then the right door, which interlocks with a flange on the edge of the left door, thus holding it in the closed position, and the cabinet may be locked by turning a key in a lock in the right door. For added security, this door is usually equipped with three-point locking
. Unlike lockers, stationery cabinets are not usually sold with a padlocking option.
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
cabinet
Cabinet (furniture)
A cabinet is usually a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors or drawers for storing miscellaneous items. Some cabinets stand alone while others are built into a wall or are attached to it like a medicine cabinet. Cabinets are typically made of wood or, now increasingly, of synthetic...
with shelves inside, used for storing a variety of items, often stationery or books or other office supplies. It may be used for a wide variety of other storage needs, including machine parts, hardware, or many other things; but offices are the location where they are most often found.
Such a cabinet is typically about 6 feet high (182.9 cm.), although some models are about 7 feet (213.4 cm.) high, and others around 4 feet (121.9 cm.) high, sometimes referred to as counter size. They are often 3 feet (91.4 cm.) wide, and 1.5 feet (45.7 cm.) deep. The 6-foot height and this width and depth are standard measurements for the most common models; even in countries where metric measurements are used for describing the dimensions, these dimensions are often exact multiples of feet or inches, presumably harking back to designs that were originally planned in exact numbers of feet or inches. Most of these standard dimensions are the same as with lockers
Locker (cabinet)
A locker is a small, usually narrow storage compartment. They are commonly found in dedicated cabinets, very often in large numbers, in various public places such as locker rooms, work places, schools, transport centres, and the like...
, and the designs for the two types of cabinet appear to have a common ancestry; and indeed, stationery cabinets are usually manufactured by the same companies who produce lockers and filing cabinet
Filing cabinet
A filing cabinet is a piece of office furniture usually used to store paper documents in file folders. In the most simple sense, it is an enclosure for drawers in which items are stored. The two most common forms of filing cabinets are blocky files and diagonal files...
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Stationery cabinets come with three, four, or five steel shelves which are designed to fit across the width of the cabinet, fitted into brackets in the internal walls, and the position of these can be changed in small increments, thus allowing users to adjust the height of the shelves to their particular needs.
There are two doors at the front which swing outwards from the centre: to close and lock the cabinet, the left door is closed first, and then the right door, which interlocks with a flange on the edge of the left door, thus holding it in the closed position, and the cabinet may be locked by turning a key in a lock in the right door. For added security, this door is usually equipped with three-point locking
Three-point locking
Three-point locking is a locking system installed in cabinet or locker doors to enable more secure locking. Whereas in single-point locking, the door on a cabinet locks only at the point where the key is turned, half-way up the edge of the door, three-point locking enables the top and bottom of the...
. Unlike lockers, stationery cabinets are not usually sold with a padlocking option.