Vertical Carpet Carousel: Vidir Carpet Roll Storage and Display

The key difference from a rack is that the roll comes to the person. On a static rack the fourth-level roll means a forklift, a carpet pole or a second employee, and the pick has to wait for equipment. On a carousel every roll in the machine is the same number of button presses away, and each pick happens at the same comfortable working height. Vidir designs the unit for single-person operation and loading, which is why the carousel is so common in stores that run carpet cutting with one associate on the floor.

Bearings, tension collars and tapered cones can be fitted to the carriers so a roll turns smoothly as it pays out to the cutter while staying in place on the carrier. That matters when the carousel feeds a cutter all day rather than just storing rolls.

Standard package. Vidir’s current published package for the Carpet Carousel includes forward and reverse push buttons with a security keypad and emergency stop, a 13,000 lb overall chain rating, 1,000 lb capacity per carrier, a 15% off-balance load allowance, retrieval at about 21 feet per minute, patented loading bars, white panels and structure with grey carriers and mesh, the cCSAus mark and a two-year manufacturer’s warranty.

Electrical. Standard supply options are 208/230 V, 15 A, 60 Hz three-phase or 460/480 V, 10 A, 60 Hz three-phase. Vidir lists other electrical options on request, so confirm your building’s service before the quote is finalized.

Off-balance in practice. The 15% figure means the loop should not be loaded with all of the heavy rolls on one side. When you plan which SKUs go where, spread the heaviest rolls around the loop; we walk through this during layout.

Vidir builds a line of carpet cutting machines meant to sit in front of the carousel, so storage, display, measuring and cutting become one workstation. Its brochure lists three:

• Carousel Mate: a manual cutter and roll-up system with built-in measuring. A good fit for lower cut volumes.
• Cut’N’Roll: powered cutting and roll-up with an electronic counter and a belted roll-up cradle, run by one person.
• Rack n’ Roll: powered cutting and roll-up with a rotary cutter design, also single-person.

The current Cut’N’Roll II lets one person unroll, inspect, measure, cut, re-roll and wrap both carpet and vinyl. A feed roller draws material across the table into position, the electronic counter reads in imperial or metric, speed is variable, a foot cable allows control away from the panel, and the patented circular cutter sharpens its own blade. The table is roughly 15′ 9″ wide, 3′ 2″ high and 2′ 8″ deep, and enclosed casters let one cutter serve several carousels on a floor track. Cut’N’Roll II brochure (PDF).

Retail flooring and home improvement stores. Here the carousel is storage and fixture at once. It holds the popular cut-to-order SKUs, shows the product, and lets one associate serve a customer from selection to cut piece without calling for a forklift on the sales floor. The keypad keeps customers from running it, and a lighted signboard turns it into merchandising. More on store layouts: vertical storage for retail and distribution.

Flooring distributors and warehouses. Distributors cut remnants and short lengths for installers all day. A carousel at the cut station, often several towers linked side by side, keeps those rolls off the floor and in one ergonomic pick zone while bulk stock stays in racks.

Manufactured housing and production lines. Vidir specifically calls out manufactured homes, where carpet is cut to length for each unit, and production lines where the carousel feeds material with quick roll changeovers.