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BRAKE
By locking the brakes the wheelchair
is to secured against unintentional
rolling off (parking brake).
The locking brake belongs to the most
important safety features of a wheel-
chair and is available as a pressure
brake (1).
!
Attention:
Please observe the maintenance
instructions as well as instructions
in the section <
General safety in-
structions
> and <
Brakes
> in the
safety instructions <
Mechanical
wheelchairs
>.
• The wheelchair loaded with the
user may not let itself be pushed in
with the brakes engaged.
• In order to prevent an unintention-
al curve while braking the wheel-
chair on slopes, both brakes are to
be activated simultaneously.
– Depending on the inclination of
the road a sideward tilting has to
be reckoned with.
• Do not support the body on the
lateral brake levers.
• The brake performance reduces
with
– tyre
profi le is worn
–
tyre pressure is too low
– tyres
are
wet.
!
Attention:
Arrange an immediate repair of
the brakes by your specialist work-
shop if the braking performance
reduces.
• Do not park wheelchairs with
PU wheels with applied pressure
brakes. – Deformations in the run-
ning surface may remain.
• If possible propel the wheelchair
over the handrims. – Perhaps dan-
ger of jamming in the area of the
brake!
