Equipto Mobile Aisle Shelving Systems

About Equipto Mobile Aisle Shelving

Equipto, a Ballymore Safety Products company headquartered in Tatamy, Pennsylvania, has manufactured American-made storage and material handling equipment for more than a century. Its mobile aisle storage systems mount Equipto’s own V-Grip shelving, modular drawers, bulk racks, pallet racking, and specialtycabinets on rolling steel carriages that ride along floor-mounted rails, closing off aisles until one is needed.

Because only one aisle needs to stay open at a time, a mobile aisle system can roughly double the storage capacity of a room versus fixed shelving in the same floor space — the core idea behind high-density storage. Equipto builds mobile aisle systems in three modes of operation (manual, mechanical-assist, and mechanically powered) and configures them for records, parts, tools, weapons, and even golf bag storage.

Equipto is a U.S. small business, manufactures its equipment domestically, and maintains an in-house installation team that installs exclusively on its own product lines.

Mobile Aisle Configurations

Equipto combines its mobile aisle carriages with its own shelving, drawer, rack and cabinet lines to fit a wide range of storage needs:

Modular Drawer Storage18- or 24-inch deep modular drawers in 48 standard sizes mount on mobile aisle carriages, holding 200 or 400 lb per drawer for organized small-parts and tool storage.

Golf Bag Storage (Clubstor)Equipto’s Clubstor line stores up to 67% more golf bags in the same space, with a mobile-aisle option for country clubs, golf clubs, and parks and recreation venues.

Weapons StorageWeapons cabinets, fast boxes for single or dual weapons, and combined weapons/crew cabinets — developed with direct input from U.S. armed forces — mount on mobile aisle carriages for secure, space-efficient armory storage.

Planning Rail, Floor Load, and Aisle Clearance

Before an Equipto mobile aisle system goes in, the room itself has to be checked, not just the carriages. Material Handling USA walks through the same short list of site conditions on every mobile-aisle project so the layout that gets quoted is the one that actually fits the space:

Floor flatness and load path. Mobile aisle rails need a flat, level slab to ride on — even a modest slope or a control joint in the wrong place can bind a carriage over time. On upper floors or older slabs, we check the floor’s point-load capacity against the fully loaded weight of the carriages before recommending mechanical-assist or PRiMA powered systems, since those carry substantially more weight per linear foot than a manual system.

Rail type: surface-mounted or recessed. Rails can sit on top of a finished floor with a beveled edge ramp (the more common retrofit option, and what you see pictured here) or be recessed into a new slab pour for a flush, ADA-friendlier transition. Recessed rails cost more up front because they require slab work, but they remove the ramp entirely from the walking surface.

Aisle width and access frequency. Because only one aisle opens at a time, the system’s minimum aisle width has to match how items are actually retrieved — a walk-in file room can run a narrower single-person aisle than a room where a cart or pallet needs to move through. We ask how often each section is accessed and by what (hand-carried folders vs. a cart vs. a forklift) before settling on aisle width and carriage count.

Ceiling height and carriage height. Taller carriages hold more per square foot of floor, but every mobile aisle project still needs enough clearance above the highest shelf, drawer bank, or rack level for sprinkler heads, lighting, and any required fire code clearance in that building.

None of this changes what Equipto builds — it changes how we lay out and quote it for a specific room, which is why we ask for room dimensions, current storage type, and access pattern before finalizing a mobile aisle proposal.

Weapons Rack Configuration in Detail

Equipto’s weapons storage racks mount on the same mobile aisle carriages as its shelving and drawer lines, which is why an armory or evidence room can run weapons storage, gear lockers, and records shelving on one connected system instead of separate fixed racks scattered around the room.

Rack-and-carriage integration. The weapons rack sits on its own mobile carriage, moved the same way as any other section — by hand crank on a mechanical-assist system, shown here, or at the push of a button on a powered PRiMA system.

Built with armed-forces input. Equipto has developed its weapons and armory storage lines with direct input from U.S. armed forces users, which is reflected in details like rack spacing and the individually numbered weapon slots visible in these installations.

Paired with other secure storage. Weapons racks are frequently ordered alongside Equipto’s gear lockers, secure cabinets, or modular drawers on the same run of carriages, so a single armory or supply room can standardize on one mobile aisle system for everything it stores.

As with every configuration on this page, we confirm rack capacity, spacing, and any agency-specific requirement against the current Equipto documentation for the exact units being quoted — we don’t carry over a spec from a different rack size or an older catalog.

Equipto and the MH-USA Mobile Shelving Lineup

Equipto is one of several mobile shelving brands Material Handling USA offers. A generic overview of every option lives on our main Mobile Shelving hub; brand-specific detail for the other manufacturers we carry is on their own pages:

• Aurora Mobile Shelving Systems — Aurora Storage carriage systems
• Datum Mobile Shelving Systems — Datum Storage carriage systems
• Mizer Mobile Shelving Systems — MCL Storage Products carriage systems
• Pipp Mobile Storage Systems — Pipp carriage systems
• Mechanical Mobile Shelving — our generic mechanical-assist overview page
• Manual Mobile Shelving — our generic manual/push-pull overview page

Frequently Asked Questions