Invacare Bora Series User Manual page 5

5.20.1 Swivelling and/or Removing Legrests (Manually
Height Adjustable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.20.2 Adjusting Legrest Angle (Manually Height
Adjustable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.20.3 Adjusting Legrest Length (Manually Height
Adjustable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.20.4 Adjusting Calf Pad Depth (Manually Height
Adjustable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.20.5 Adjusting Calf Pad Height (Manually Height
Adjustable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.21 Adjusting the width of the legrests fixed to the side
(Flex 2 seat / Modulite seat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.22 Legrests for the Firm seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.22.1 Modifying the front seat depth by adjusting the
legrest support brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.22.2 Adjusting the length of the legrest - Standard /
Junior / Mini Legrests (Firm seat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.22.3 Adjusting the angle of the legrest - Angle
adjustable legrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.22.4 Adjusting the length of the legrest - Angle
adjustable legrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.23 Imperial to metric conversion chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6 Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.1 Driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.2 Before Driving for First Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.3 Parking and Stationary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.3.1 Activating and deactivating the manual wheel
lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.4 Getting in and out of Mobility Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.4.1 Removing the armrests in order to side transfer
(Standard seat / Modulite seat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.4.2 Removing the armrests in order to side transfer
(Flex 2 seat) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.4.3 Information About Getting in and out. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
6.4.4 Swivelling Nucleus Midline Holder to Side. . . . . . . . . . 86
6.4.5 Swivelling Swing-Away Display Holder to Side . . . . . . . 86
6.4.6 Swivelling Chin Control to Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.5 Folding Away/Releasing Curb Climber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.6 Taking Obstacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.6.1 Maximum Obstacle Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.6.2 Safety Information When Taking Obstacles . . . . . . . . . 87
6.6.3 Correct Way to Take Obstacles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.7 Driving up and down Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
6.8 Handling the drive lock-out feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.9 Use on Public Roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
6.10 Pushing the mobility device in freewheel mode . . . . . . . 90
6.10.1 Disengaging motors (conventional motors) . . . . . . . . 90
7 Controls System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.1 Controls Protection System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.2 Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.2.1 General Information on Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.2.2 General Instructions on Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.2.3 Charging Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
7.2.4 Disconnecting Mobility Device After Charging . . . . . . . 94
7.2.5 Storage and Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7.2.6 Instructions on Using Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7.2.7 Transporting Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.2.8 General Instructions on Handling Batteries . . . . . . . . . 95
7.2.9 Handling Damaged Batteries Correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8 Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.1 General Information on Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.2 Transferring Mobility Device to Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.3 Use of the wheelchair as a seat in a vehicle . . . . . . . . . . 98
8.3.1 How the wheelchair is anchored in a vehicle . . . . . . .100
8.3.2 How the user is secured within the mobility
device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
8.4 Transporting the mobility device without occupant . . . . .102
8.4.1 Preparing the wheelchair for transport without
occupant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
8.4.2 Removing the battery boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
8.4.3 Removing the seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104