 A tall metal filing cabinet for work or home use. A filing cabinet (or file cabinet in the United States) is a piece of office equipment that is useful for temporary and permanent storage. It is usually used for the storage of paper in a file folder. The two most common forms of filing cabinets are lateral files and vertical files. Image File history File links Metal_File_Cabinet. ...
Image File history File links Metal_File_Cabinet. ...
Hanging file folders A file folder is a kind of folder that holds loose papers together for organization and protection. ...
A lateral file is used to store folders in a sideways fashion. They are standard in government and legal offices. They also permit variety in office design. These are also called side filers in Great Britain.
Vertical file
 A wooden Filing Cabinet with drawer open The vertical filing cabinet (vertical file cabinet in the United States) more or less as in use today was invented by Edwin G. Seibels in 1898. He was working in his father's insurance office and realised that the then current system of folding papers into envelopes and storing them in pigeon holes could be improved if the folding was dispensed with. The documents could then be stored in large envelopes vertically, in drawers. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 649 KB) Wooden File Cabinet with drawer open. ...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 649 KB) Wooden File Cabinet with drawer open. ...
Edwin Grenville Seibels (12 September 1866 - 21 December 1954) was the son of Edwin Whipple Seibels and Marie Jane Smith Seibels. ...
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
In the US, these come in two sizes: for letter-size paper and legal-size paper. Foreign firms offer filing cabinets that permit A4 paper to be used in addition to letter-size. Also, there are double file cabinets whose drawers each can accommodate two racks for folders side by side. UK file cabinets are slightly different from US in the width of the rails which support the suspension files, the US ones are narrower, the UK sizes are known as- A4 , foolscap and A3.
Some of the UK cabinets will support both A4 and Foolscap Suspension files an example can be seen here
However the most popular cabinets purchased in the UK by far are those that support Foolscap filing.
External links - Filing Cabinet History and Other Information
- Filing Cabinet Store
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