Furniture storage requires a heavy-duty commercial shelving system that can support large, heavy loads. Cantilevered storage racks are an excellent system to meet these needs. Cantilevered racks are composed of three main components: arms, uprights, and braces.
Long furniture pieces like couches can be easily stored and removed because there are no frontal obstructions, and solid decking covering the length of the rack row. Cantilever arm length varies to accommodate the depth of the furniture being stored, and connectors maintain the arms position. Guide rails enable pickers to remove the furniture easily, so forklifts don’t damage the upholstery.
The arms of a cantilevered rack are horizontal beams designed to support the items being stored, and uprights are the vertical beams that support the arms. Additional arms can be added to provide more support, and they can be set at various angles depending on what they are used to hold.
Cantilever racks feature long arms that provide sturdy support for furniture and allow for easy retrieval of those items by forklift.
Why Cantilever Racking?
Cantilever racking systems can accommodate large furniture such as couches, tables, dressers, desks, cabinets, floor coverings, chairs, and beds.
Cantilever racks can also support oversized loads without damaging them. Large pieces of furniture are susceptible to bending or damage if stored incorrectly. Some features include:
- Single or double-sided
- Bolt-on bases
- Bolted arm connections
- Snap-in decking supports in a variety of options like plywood
- Bolted column braces
- Optional guide rails and offset arms
- Accessibility and Efficiency
Cantilever racks offer better accessibility for forklifts due to their open layout and simple design.
Some specialized cantilever furniture racks feature access at both sides of the rack as well as the front for increased accessibility to stock.
Since the items are easily visible on cantilevered furniture racks, inspections and on inventory spot-checks are simple to conduct.
Cantilever-style furniture racking systems facilitate a quicker selection of customer orders due to their open layout and accessible design. There are no vertical metal bars or shelves obstructing the view along the length of the shelves, allowing items to be located quickly and easily. This unobstructed storage deck also allows you to store items with minimal wasted space.
These can be either single or double-sided, reducing handling time on the warehouse floor due to the easy access that cantilevered racking systems offer.
- Easy Installation/Reconfiguration
Other types of racking systems can be easily integrated with cantilever racks such as pallet racking systems for storage of smaller items in the same warehouse.
Cantilever racking can be easily reconfigured. Cantilever storage racks are popular in furniture storage for their ability to accommodate long and cumbersome products. Their versatile and open design can be customized to meet specific dimensions for certain items and then later reconfigured again for other needs.
- Optimization of Space
Use cantilever racks to optimize space in your facility by stacking items as high as your facility safely allows. Additional arms can be added to allow extra storage for non-standard shapes and sizes.
Cantilever racking systems increase the use of vertical storage space; they can store products up to 6 meters high. This reduces handling time, improving productivity on the floor among warehouse employees.
Cantilever-style furniture storage racks create a system in which loads of varying widths and lengths can be stored together.
- Safety and Accessories
Cantilevered racks protect furniture from damage. For more cumbersome pieces, supplementary accessories such as metal arms and horizontal beams may be added to support the additional weight or length of the load.
Other accessories include guard rails, additional rack braces, dividers, and guards. Guards are used to protect the racking system and your products from accidental damage.
