Use Manual

USE AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

GOODS /
PASSENGER LIFT
GPL 25
GPL 40
GPL 40F
GPL 80F

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Date : 09-03-23
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0 GENERAL PART
0.1 INTRODUCTION INFORMATIONS
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 car.
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 ceiling well.
Well: The space in which the car and the balancing weight, if there is one, travels.
Pit: The part of the well situated below the lowest landing served by the car.
Machine room: A room in which machine or machines and/or the associated equipment are placed.

0.1.3 SYMBOLS USED

NOTE
Indicates information which contents must be seriously taken in consideration.
WARNING
Indicates that the described operation is likely to cause, damages to the system or physical damages if
performed without complying with the safety standards.

1 WARNINGS
Please remember:
• It is prohibited
- Put or keep on service a lift not according with applicable rules in force
- Keep on service a lift with a safety level not optimal
- To shunt all the devices used to the working or the safety of the lift
- To exceed the persons or the load maximum admissible in car
- To use the triangular key on landing doors if not are an authorized and suitably trained person
- Rescue people trapped in car if not are an authorized and suitably trained person
- To modify the lift or any component of it without previous agreement with the manufacturer
• It is necessary to take all the possible precautions to guarantee safety to the intervening people and
the person in their neighborhood.
• All the maintenance, repair or rescue interventions, shall be made by qualified and suitably trained
person.
• The lift shall be intended only for the use foreseen at the putting on service time.
• Any use not indicated is absolute prohibited
• Interventions on electrical part shall be made by qualified persons according to the rules in force.
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2 USE
2.1 GENERAL REFERENCES (STANDARD USE)
2.1.1 SAFETY ADMISSION AND USE OF THE LIFT
For a correct use of the lift, please make references to the following instructions and references:
• Do not push more than one push-button at time
• Do not thread fingers or anything between the car doors, landing doors and well;
• Do not let anything drop between the car and the lift well.
• Before getting in or out the lift, please wait that the car doors are completely open.
• 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. If pets are in the car, please make sure they do not have
uncontrolled movements and somebody keeps watching them.
• 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)
• Please do not bring inflammable substances in the car.
• Please make sure that wheel-chairs are safety stopped before starting the car.
• Do not smoke in car
Do not use the system during dangerous situations (ex. Earthquakes, fires...).

2.1.2 MACHINE ROOM

The following conditions should be respected:
• Place the instructions/manuals inside the machine room: manual operation, 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 (to perform the manual operation) 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 5 and 40 C°.

2.2 LIFT OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

2.2.1 CONTROL
The lift can work in the following control modes:
A) Automatic push-buttons (par.2.2.2)
B) Down Collective (par. 2.3.2)
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

2.2.2 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 car stands ready for the passengers all through the period when the IN USE signal is on.
• The user, when lift IN USE signal is on, 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.
• At the end, if nobody is into the car and push another button, then the car doors close and the lift return FREE
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2.2.3 DOWN COLLECTIVE (OPTIONAL)

• The user could call the lift by pushing the call push-button at a landing when lift is FREE or IN USE
• The control panel can remember and answer calls logged during travel to the main floor.
• The lift executes the call and if it’s moving in the direction of the main floor, the car will answer calls received
from intermediate landings.
• When lift arrives at a landing with a call logged, if the car is not in overload, then the doors automatically
open for the user’s access.
• The car stands ready for the passengers, and they, individually, should push the button, placed on the car
station, corresponding to the landings they need.
• The car doors close and the car starts moving, with the previous direction of travel, to reach the nearest
landing needed or with a call logged.
• If landing selected is opposite to the direction of travel, then the lift will reach the main or the extreme landing
and after the landing needed.
• When the car arrives at the landing selected, the doors automatically open for the user’s landing.

2.3 PUSH BUTTON PANEL

2.3.1 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

2.3.2 DOWN COLLECTIVE PUSH BUTTON PANEL (OPTIONAL)

At floors there are the following buttons and signals(minimum equipment):
- call button (the user should push it to book the lift)
- “BOOKED” or red signal (it indicates that the lift has been called)
- signal with car direction arrows
In the car there are the following buttons and signals:
- call buttons with landing numbers.
- yellow colour alarm signal with bell symbol
- open doors button with double opposite arrows symbol
- car position signal
- overload signal with sound
- display with car direction arrows.

3 EMERGENCY ACTIONS
3.1 AUTHORIZED AND INSTRUCTED PEOPLE INTERVENTION
Authorized and instructed people should be called when:
• The system stops (ex. During power cut, breakdown or natural events) 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)
3.2 FIRST ASSISTANCE
If passengers are trapped inside the car, immediately contact the Lift Maintenance Company.
• The rescuer performs the emergency operation (par. 3.2.1) to level the car to the floor.
• Car doors are opened by the emergency key (unlocking triangle) (par. 3.2.2).
WARNING
These operations shouldn’t be done by unauthorized and instructed people. Only expert and qualified
people should do it.
IMPORTANT
Tell the passengers inside the car to not worry as the lift has got all the necessary safety devices.
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3.2.1 STANDARD EMERGENCY OPERATION (SEE ALSO SEPARATE RESCUE INSTRUCTION)

For a correct emergency operation make reference to the following instructions:
A) Switch off the power turning to OFF position the FM switch (PW) placed in the machine room or, if the lift is a
MRL, in the remote control panel box.
B) Turn the light on in the well.
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) Get back to the machine room and push the red button on the power unit, the car should travel slowly
downward to the nearest floor. The indicator on the control panel should light up as soon as the car arrives
at landing level.
F) Let the passengers get out of the car and close the car and the landing doors.
G) Make sure that all the landing doors are closed.
H) Keep the power OFF in the machine room until the maintaining organization comes, turn the light off in the
well and shut the machine room door.
I) Call the maintenance organization 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..

3.2.2 EMERGENCY KEY - UNLOCKING TRIANGLE (SEE ALSO SEPARATE RESCUE INSTR.)
When you need to open the doors even if the car is not at floor level, it is necessary to use the emergency key
(unlocking triangle) as follows:
- Hang up all the out of service signs.
- Drive the car at floor level by the emergency operation.
- Insert the emergency key in the unlocking triangle hole on the floor door.
- Turn the key and open the door with caution.
• The emergency key (unlocking triangle) should be kept by the responsible person, the lift maintenance
company or under safety glass in the machine room.
• The emergency key (unlocking triangle) can be used only by the lift maintenance company.
• At the end, make sure that the stopping door device is locked with closed door, according with the sign on
the emergency key (unlocking triangle)
• When there are car doors or landing doors coupled, a device assures the automatic car door closing, if for
any reason the floor door could be open when the car has left the unlocking position.

3.2.3 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.
• The red signal “Alarm received” lights up as soon as the lift maintenance company receives the alarm.

3.3 DOCUMENTS FILING

Those are the Technical documents supplied:
DOCUMENTS FILING
Wiring diagram In control panel box
Instruction manual By responsible person
Installation system manual with the followings By responsible person
enclosures:
- project
- Control panel instructions
- Installation and settings instructions
Maintaining instructions By responsible person