Invacare EC-Track Manuel De Maintenance page 14

Invacare® EC-Track®
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.
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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 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.
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:
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