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Filing cabinets are the storage medium used to keep vital records safe, they are used in municipal vaults and in any workplace that requires safe keeping of documents. Filing cabinets are omnipresent in such places.
A filing cabinet provides a solution if you need to keep documents and other papers in an organized and handy manner. They are a necessary part of any office. Available in both aluminum or steel, filing cabinets are a required part of any office that requires equipment for temporary or permanent file storage.
The lateral filing cabinets and vertical filing cabinets are the most common used types of cabinets, for file storage.
Edwin G. was the inventor of the vertical filing cabinet and it's still used to day, more or less, in the same original format. You can improve the cost and space efficiency of a vertical filing cabinet by having more drawers, two or three drawers vertical filing cabinets are probably one of the least efficient solutions for safe file keeping. Vertical filing cabinets also have advantages, and one of them is the fire protection that can be achieved if the separated units are specially insulated. Also, if the units are equipped with locks, they will provide controlled access to the records, but they are not strong enough to provide security.
Just like the vertical filing cabinets, lateral filing cabinets provide the advantages of controlled access using locks and some fire resistance. The difference is that lateral filing cabinets provide a storage solution in a sideways fashion. Lateral Filing Cabinets hold tab folders or tab file folders that you fill from the left to the right, just like shelf file arrangement.
Filing cabinets continue to evolve and they are now used as high density systems that can keep your records and files safe from fire and water hazards, safely stored away from accidental spill of coffee or who know what.