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5. Installation instructions
5.1 General
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. First, 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. Secondly, push the next rail into the protruding pins. Do not drill
further holes in the first rail. Finally, 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. (Shim's
of respectively 1 mm, 3 mm and 5 mm thickness, may be used to level out any unevenness.)
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 in the section 5.1.1 about milling of keyholes.
5.1.1 Milling of keyhole
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. If the rail goes from wall to wall, it should be placed min. 400 mm from the rail
profile end.
If 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.
1 m from inside of the bed head end.
15 cm from the front edge.
1/3 way up (sitting position), ½ way up (reclining position).
1 m from the head end of the table.
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