Safety cabinet

Abstract

A safety cabinet has a body adapted to contain hazardous substances and having an upright front side, a base underneath the cabinet and adapted to support the cabinet spaced above an underlying floor. The base having an upright front wall below the body, set back from the front side thereof, and formed with a plurality of air intake openings, and structure in the base forming a suction-vent passage extending from the intake openings.

1 . A safety cabinet comprising:
 a body adapted to contain hazardous substances and having an upright front side;   a base underneath the cabinet and adapted to support the cabinet spaced above an underlying floor, the base having an upright front wall below the body, set back from the front side thereof, and formed with a plurality of air intake openings; and   structure in the base forming a suction-vent passage extending from the intake openings.   
   
   
       2 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 1  wherein the air-intake openings are distributed in a horizontal row along the base front wall. 
   
   
       3 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 2  wherein the openings are horizontally elongated slots. 
   
   
       4 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 1  wherein the base and body are separable from each other. 
   
   
       5 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 1  wherein the openings communicate with an exhaust opening on a back wall of the body. 
   
   
       6 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 5  wherein the body is formed in the back wall with an air passage. 
   
   
       7 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 6  wherein the passage extends from the back wall and through the base to the openings. 
   
   
       8 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 5 , further comprising
 an exhaust blower having a suction side connected to the exhaust opening.   
   
   
       9 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 1  wherein the cabinet has at least one drawer. 
   
   
       10 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 1  wherein the cabinet has at least one hinged door. 
   
   
       11 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 10  wherein the hinged door has a thermal lock that latches the door when heated above a predetermined temperature. 
   
   
       12 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 1  wherein the body has side and end walls of fire-resistant construction. 
   
   
       13 . The safety cabinet defined in  claim 12  wherein the base has side walls the project forward past the front wall so as to have front edges vertically generally aligned with the front side. 
   
   
       13 . A safety cabinet comprising:
 a hollow body adapted to contain hazardous substances and having an openable front side;   a base underneath the cabinet and adapted to support the cabinet spaced above an underlying floor, the base having an upright front wall below the body, set back from the front side thereof, and formed with a plurality of air intake openings; and   structure in the base forming a suction-vent passage extending horizontally from the intake openings horizontally underneath the body and up a back side of the body to an exhaust opening on the back side of the body; and   an exhaust blower having a suction side connected to the exhaust opening.