When you’re traveling to the fire, the last thing you need is your hose and adapters bouncing and rolling around, making your important supplies difficult to find. A mounting plate allows for compartment organization of appliances. The Storz Mounting Plates from U.S. Coupling allow you to mount appliances in the compartment to ensure a stable ride while in storage, as well as creating stability and easy deployment when used on hose loads. All of our lightweight adapters are made from custom manufactured, aircraft grade 6061-T6 seamless, aluminum extrusions. These Mounting Plates are available in diameters ranging from 4” to 8”.

Upon recognizing a market need for a fitting manufacturer to be responsive to the unique requirements of the equipment builders for large scale industrial firefighting equipment, U.S. Coupling has stepped into the role. Designing, manufacturing, and supplying lay-flat hose fittings and accessories for this specialist niche market with connections up to 8” in diameter.

A swivel fitting will allow you to unkink your hose when you first walk it out by spinning around the hose end to straighten. The rigid fitting is unyielding and allows little to no separation. When combined, the swivel joint can absorb some of the hose shortening that comes with liquid pressure.

U.S. Coupling’s lightweight adapters are made from custom manufactured, aircraft grade 6061-T6 seamless, aluminum extrusions. Type 53 Swivel Female x Rigid Female Adapters have a large range of diameters available. The Swivel Female diameter starts at 1.5” and goes up to 8” with National Standard Thread (NH) thread. The Rigid Female diameter starts at 1” and goes up to 8” with National Pipe Thread (NPT) thread.