engagement with the latches 36 once again placing the latching mechanism in its unlatched position the foot pedal 84 remains unaffected due to the interaction of the rods 76 with the latch profile the latches 36 and thus the doors 34 are forced outwardly away from the rods 76 and the center post 44 once the hand knob 80 is released in this instance the doors 34 are opened by the operator using the hand knob 80 due to the arrangement of the plates actuation of the latching mechanism by the hand knob 80 is independent of actuation of the latching mechanism by the foot pedal 84 each actuator operates independently of each other and the operator can use either actuator to open the cabinet doors referring to fig8 to lock the cabinet 10 the operator may add a padlock 104 when secured in a locked state the padlock 104 shifts the body of the lock in the lock box 98 into a position where the security rod 100 can not move upwards and thus prevents either actuator from moving the rods 76 out of engagement with the door latches 36 to unlock the cabinet 10 the operator simply uses a key to unlock the padlock 104 in doing so the body of the.