Use Manual

USE AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

VEHICLE LIFT
VL 30
VL 35
VL 40

Instruction : A :0.3 EN
Date : 09-02-01
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0 GENERAL PART
0.1 INTRODUCTION INFORMATIONS
VL 30 lift is a Vehicle lift or max. 3000 kg and it is prohibited to load the lift with forklift
VL 35 lift is a Vehicle lift or max. 3500 kg and it is prohibited to load the lift with forklift
VL 40 lift is a Vehicle lift or max. 4000 kg and it is prohibited to load the lift with forklift

0.1.1 INTRODUCTION
This manual should be considered as a part of the lift, so the responsible person should keep it and make it
available to the lift users.

GMV declines all responsibility if users do not respect what is written in this manual.
GMV Technical Documentation Office is available for customers for further information concerning use.

0.1.2 DEFINITIONS
For a better understanding, please apply to the following definitions concerning some terms we used in the
manual:
Passenger: Any person transported by a lift in the cabin.
User: Person making use of the services of a lift installation.
Authorized and Instructed User: Someone who is allowed in using the lift and who has received the
instructions for using it.
Rescuer: Authorized and Instructed user or Firemen or Maintenance Lift Company
Rated load: The load for which the equipment has been built.
Headroom: Well part between the highest landing and the shaft/well ceiling.
Shaft/Well: The space in which the cabin and the balancing weight, if there is one, travels.
Pit: The part of the shaft/well situated below the lowest landing served by the cabin.
Machine room: A room in which machine or machines and/or the associated equipment are placed.

0.1.3 SYMBOLS USED

WARNING
Indicates that, if not followed, may cause damage description of system or physical damage.

1 USE
1.1 SAFETY ADMISSION AND USE OF THE LIFT

Follow these instructions to use the lift correctly:

• Lift is intended for a vehicle and the vehicle's passengers. From a security point of view, it is not
recommended that passengers standing outside the vehicle during traveling or when vehicle going out from
or into the lift cabin.
• Don’t drive or walk into or out of the lift cabin until the doors are completely open.
• Brake vehicle gently and softly inside the liftcabin.
• It is recommended that the vehicle engine is turned of during travel (depending on ventilation & traveling
time).
• During lift traveling secure that vehicle handbrake is activated
• Do not push more than one push-button at time. Do not thread fingers or anything between the car doors,
landing doors and shaft/well wall.
• Do not try to open the doors during car travel.
• Do not exceed the rated load which is indicated in the sign inside the car, and in particular do not carry
freight too heavy. The overload device prevents the travel if the rated load is exceeded.
• During the travel avoid sudden movements. Keep an eye on pets traveling in the lift cabin.
• Children are not admitted in the car, unless they are with adults who know how to use the lift (please make
reference to national rules and laws).
• Do not use the system during dangerous situations (ex. Earthquakes, fires...).
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1.1.1 MACHINE ROOM

• Place the instructions/manuals inside the machine room: emergency operation and the key for unlocking
triangle of the landing doors
• The machine room should be always locked to avoid unauthorized entry. Authorized people are: the
members of the inspection body and people of the maintenance organization. The building guardians or the
responsible person can get in only for emergency reasons and only if correctly instructed.
• The machine room shouldn’t contain goods with no relation to the lift system.
• To ensure the correct functioning of the equipment in the Machine room the ambient temperature is
assumed to be maintained between 15 and 40 C°.

1.2 LIFT OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

1.2.1 CONTROL
The lift work with automatic push-buttons

The lift could be in one of the following conditions:

• FREE: car is stopped and landing doors are closed
• IN USE: car is working or landing doors are opened

1.2.1 AUTOMATIC PUSH-BOTTON

• The user calls the lift by pushing the call push-button at a landing only if the lift is FREE.
• The lift executes the first incoming call and become IN USE. It doesn’t remember further calls.
• When the car arrives at the landing, the doors automatically open for the user’s access.
• The user, should push the button, placed on the car station, corresponding to the landing he needs.
• The car doors close and the car travels to the destination required.
• When the car reach the landing selected, the doors automatically open for the user’s landing.

1.3 PUSH BUTTON PANEL

1.3.1 AUTOMATIC PUSH BUTTON PANEL
At landings there are the following push-buttons and signals (minimum equipment):
- call button (the user should push it for calling the lift),
- in use or red signal (it indicates that the lift is not immediately free)
In the car there are the following buttons and signals:
- landing numbers push-buttons
- yellow alarm signal with bell picture
- open doors button with double opposite arrow symbol
- car position display
- overload signal with sound

2 EMERGENCY ACTIONS
2.1 AUTHORIZED AND INSTRUCTED PEOPLE INTERVENTION
Authorized and instructed people should be called when:
• The system stops (ex. During power cut or breakdown) with people inside car.
• The responsible person has been notified of a fault which stops the lift from working
• Whenever there is the need to get into the machine-room, to perform the emergency operation or to use the
emergency key (unlocking triangle)
2.2 ASSISTANCE
If passengers are trapped inside the car, immediately contact the Lift Maintenance Company.
• Emergency lowering to landing and emergency cabin door opening with the emergency key (point 2.2.1).
• Emengency cabin door opened with the emergency key (point 2.2.2.).

WARNING
These operations shouldn’t be done by unauthorized and instructed people. Only expert and qualified
people should do it.
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2.2.1 EMERGENCY OPERATION

For a correct emergency operation make reference to the following instructions:
Inform passengers that you will make emergency lowering and open the doors.
A) Inform passengers that you will make emergency lowering and open the doors.
B) Check with the passengers that the vehicle engine is turned off and the parking brake is activated.
C) Pick the “OUT OF SERVICE” signs up in the machine room.
D) Make sure that all the landing doors are closed and hang up the “OUT OF SERVICE” signs.
E) Turn off the electrical power to the elevator.
F) Perform the appropriate action according separate rescue instruction to emergency lowering lift cabin to
floor.
G) Signal lamp on the operating panel lights up when the lift cabin is coming to the floor.
H) Insert the emergency opening key in the triangular lock on the landing door, turn the key and manually force
up door panels.
I) Let the vehicle & its passengers out from the lift cabin, secure that the landing door is properly closed &
locked.
J) Return the emergency opening key to the engine room & close the door to the machineroom.
K) Contact maintenance company to report that the emergency is solved or is to solve and also to request the
necessary checks to restore the normal working conditions of the lift..

2.2.2 EMERGENCY KEY-UNLOCKING TRIANGLE

It not possible to emergency lowering lift cabin to landing and you need to open the doors even if the car is not
at landing level, it is necessary to use the emergency key (unlocking triangle) as follows:
- Inform passengers that you will make emergency opening of the doors.
- Check with the passengers that the vehicle engine is turned off and the parking brake is activated.
- Pick the “OUT OF SERVICE” signs up in the machine room.
- Make sure that all the landing doors are closed and hang up the “OUT OF SERVICE” signs.
- Insert the emergency opening key in the triangular lock on the landing door, turn the key and manually
force up door panels.
- Help the passengers one by one out of the lift cabin.

• The emergency key (unlocking triangle) should be kept by the responsible person, the lift maintenance
company or in the machine room.
• The emergency key (unlocking triangle) can be used only by rescue person.
• At the end, make sure that the landing door is closed and locked.

2.2.3 FOR PASSENGERS IN THE CAR

• People stopped inside the lift can give the alarm by pushing the yellow button on the push button panel.
• The lift has got: a bi-directional intercom system, so the passengers can communicate outside and a remote
connection device with the machine room.