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Small Mobile Aisle Shelving / Roller Racking System

Mobile shelving or roller racking systems are specialised storage units designed to offer increased capacity for a given footprint over traditional filing units.

[edit] Mobile Storage Systems

Mobile storage systems (mobile aisle shelving or roller racking) are moveable filing cabinets mounted on a trackway. These specialised office furniture units are usually constructed with a rotary handle on the exterior accesible face. When revolved, the handle operates the mechanism which winds the single, connected, filing unit either left or right, depending on a clockwise or counter clockwise rotation of the handle.

By eliminating the need for an aisle between every shelving unit, more floor space can be utilised for storage. The tracks are leveled to eliminate gradients in the supporting floor. This makes it possible to move heavy units with minimal effort.

[edit] Applications

Princeton University's Firestone Library: mobile aisle shelving / roller racking system.

Mobile aisle shelving is typically used for academic and industrial applications where significant volumes of physical archive material, filing or books are to be stored. Medical records storage and governmental record storage applications also make heavy use of these systems. Smaller commercial applications in file or media intensive offices such as the legal profession are common.

[edit] Capacity, Siting and Speed Advantages

A typical bank of mobile shelving units offer close to 50% reduction of floor space or a 50% to 100% increase in storage space compared to traditional filing cabinets. The ability to concertina individual units until touching means space is only required between units when they are being accessed by users. Applications with a greater number of simultaneous users may require more access spaces, thus not approaching this 50% target so closely.

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