Orthofab Tango - Backrest; To Fold the Backrest

5 OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
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5.4 BACKREST
5.4.1 TO FOLD THE BACKREST
In order to facilitate transportation of the wheelchair, you can fold back
the backrest on the seat. This operation will be possible only if nobody is on the
seat.
To do this :
1. Remove rigid backrest, if necessary, or any other seating products that could
prevent the backrest from being folded back ;
2. Position yourself behind the wheelchair and push on both folding backrest
release handles at the same time (see; figure 42-A);
3. Keep pushing the folding backrest release handles and push on the stabilizer
cross bar slowly towards the front (see; figure 42-B);
4. To replace the backrest in the upright position, grab the backrest by the stabilizer
cross bar (figure 42-B) and pull the backrest towards you. A mechanism will
ensure that the backrest locks automatically.
Once the backrest will be back in upright position. Make
sure that the mechanism is correctly locked, by pushing
the backrest towards the front of the wheelchair.
NOTE : If your wheelchair is equipped with a gas actuator reclining backrest,
you won’t be able to fold it back.
Figure 42-A : Folding backrest in upright position.