Installation; General Installation Instructions; Ceiling Mounting System; Concrete Ceiling - Invacare EC-Track Robin Manuel De Maintenance

3 Installation

3.1 General Installation Instructions

Before installing a rail system, a careful and accurate measuring of the
room is essential. It is equally important to determine the condition
of the ceiling, the walls and the floor in order to decide whether to
mount the rails on the ceiling or on the walls. Next, you need to
decide how many lifting places are needed in the room.
When defining the lifting places, an individual assessment is required,
which takes into consideration the build of the individual user and
number of nurses.
The following placement of typical lifting places may be used as a
recommended guideline:
Bed
Toilet
Bathtub
Changing table
When measuring for the selected rail system, take into consideration
a suitable parking place for the hoist when it is not in use. A suitable
spot could be near a wall, where the hoist charger is mounted on
the wall.
Check the customized rail as well as the brackets and other
accessories against the drawing.
Check that any burrs and metal shavings have been removed from the
rails to prevent this debris from getting stuck in the trolley wheels
producing noise and erratic operation.
In case of single rails and curved rails needing coupling, use the
enclosed pipe pins.
1. Push the pipe pins halfway into the one rail. Holes are drilled
to Ø3.2mm in the rail that the previous mentioned rail is to be
connected to. Then the next rail is inserted over the pipe pins.
2. Push the next rail into the protruding pins. Do not drill further
holes in the first rail.
3. Mount the bracket for rail coupling.
When installing a traverse system where the parallel rails are running
from wall to wall, the minimum distance from rail to wall must be 60
mm, insert the traverse trolley and the rail end stop into the parallel
rails before installation. If not, the parallel rails must end min. 350
mm from the wall to permit subsequently installation of the trolley.
When installing a mono rail system or a traverse rail in a traverse
system, it is important that the rail at one end stops min. 160 mm
from the wall to permit subsequently installation of the hoist trolley.
At secondary installation of Robin Mover™ the distance must be
minimum 300 mm.
When installing rails with brackets directly on the ceiling, make sure
that the ceiling is even and horizontal. (Shims of respectively 1 mm, 3
mm and 5 mm thickness, may be used to level out any unevenness.)
Keyhole for the installation point
Any EC-Track system must be prepared with an installation point
for the hoist.
This installation point appears as a 32 mm round milled groove on
the bottom of the rail in which the hoist is to be installed. This milled
groove is called keyhole.
1586749-B
1 m from inside of the bed head
end
150 mm from the front edge
1/3 way up (sitting position), ½
way up (reclining position)
1 m from the head end of the
table
When installing the rail system, it is crucial that this installation point
is placed according to the instructions below.
1. Generally, the keyhole must always be placed as close as possible
to the end of a rail. However, it must be at least 250 mm away
from the rail end.
2. If the rail goes from wall to wall, it should be placed min. 400
mm from the rail profile end.
3. If a traverse system is mounted, the keyhole should be placed as
close as possible across the end of the rail. However, it must be
at least 250 mm away from the rail end.
If the traverse rail continues all the way out to the walls, it should
be placed min. 400 mm from the end of the rail.

3.2 Ceiling Mounting System

3.2.1 Concrete Ceiling

When referring to mounting in concrete ceilings, we differentiate
between massive concrete (factory moulded concrete elements,
prestressed concrete surfaces, armored concrete) and hollow
surfaces.
Mounting with Quick Ceiling Bracket
When using quick ceiling fittings, all ceiling fittings are to be mounted
in the ceiling. Then the rail may be mounted in these. At least 3
ceiling fittings shall be used per rail. There must subsequently be max.
700 mm between each fitting. There must be max. 200 mm from the
end of the rail to the first fitting.
Measure up to all fittings at the same time. It is important that the
drilled holes are on a straight line. The precise marking for the holes
is to be carried out using laser technique, chalk line, etc.
Mounting in massive concrete and hollow surfaces:
1. Drill holes with a 15 mm hammer drill to a depth of 54 mm.
Blow holes clean.
2. Insert M12 stroke anchors into the hole (e.g. Hilti HKD-S M12
or equal).
When using a setting tool (e.g. Hilti HSD-G M12x50 or equal),
the anchor will be correctly fastened in the concrete.
3. Mount the quick fitting by screwing the pre-mounted threaded
rod in the stroke anchor.
It is important that an adhesive is used on a fitting and nut when
the threaded rod is mounted to fitting.
In order to ensure the achievement of max. strength, the
threaded rod should be screwed min. 14 mm into the anchor.
When using a stroke anchor in combination with the
quick bracket, optimum accuracy is a requirement. As an
alternative, two component adhesive mortar for concrete
can be recommended.
When all fittings are mounted, push the hoist trolley into the rail.
The hoist trolley may face both ways. If the traverse trolley is to
be mounted into the rail, it is important that this faces correctly in
connection to the following mounting of the traverse rail.
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