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Panthera
AB reserves the right to make technical changes if required
SAFETY REGULATIONS
Current information
Up-to-date information on safety and product updates can be found at Panthera’s:
website,
www.panthera.se
Verify that your wheelchair corresponds with your order:
- Measure the seat width.
- Measure the height of the backrest.
- Ensure you have received the accessories you ordered.
Conduct a technical inspection of your wheelchair, ensuring that:
- the rear wheel’s quick release can easily be shifted in and out of its casings.
- the rear wheel is firmly attached following installation.
- the quick release button springs out fully while in locked position.
- all four wheels are in contact with the floor.
- the castor fork can be rotated with ease.
- the backrest folds down easily.
Balance and tipping capacity
The angle of the backrest, the adjustment of the backrest upholstery and the position of
the rear wheel are the most significant factors affecting the wheelchair’s balance and
tendency to tip. After adapting your wheelchair, check that you
feel confident about the
balance of the wheelchair.
The tipping capacity of the wheelchair may also be affected if a bag is hung on the back
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rest, if you lean or stretch backwards, if the tyres are worn or contain insufficient air or if
there is an unexpected change to the surface you are driving on
Anti-tip device
As the drivers of the Panthera X are very advanced users and benefits of as low weight as
possible, Panthera do not deliver anti-tip device in the standard configuration as this would
increase the weight of the wheelchair and this user group has good control over a wheel-
chair with a lot of weight over the rear wheels and can handle a very ”tippy” wheelchair.
The demand for not having anti-tip device according to the standard is 10 degrees angle
and the Panthera X has a tipping angle at 5 degrees.
The wheelchair was therefor tested with anti-tip to fulfill the demand. Panthera X is desig
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ned for the advanced user that is aware of that the wheelchair is very easy to tip back-
wards and adapt their driving and use of the wheelchair to this.
People that would need anti-tip device is not recommended to use this wheelchair when
this could lead to serious health risk.
Anti-tip device are available as an option but is to be used primary as a complement if the
conditions for using the wheelchairolen changes in the future.
