TRAM
An innovative device intelligently engineered to provide quick, safe, dignified transfers and mobility, the Rifton TRAM features: an ultralight compact frame that’s easy to maneuver in tight spaces, intuitive controls and adjustments, making it simple for a single caregiver to operate, a body support system that eliminates any lifting by the caregiver, reducing back strain and workplace injuries, 350-pound (158.76 kg) weight capacity and a powerful battery drive that can deliver over 70 lifts on a single charge, an optional built-in scale, allowing you to weigh your client while performing a routine transfer, standard or Low-base.
Gold medal winner at the prestigious Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA)
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Body support system
The TRAM features an innovative support system that secures the client using two back belts with safety buckles. This enables the caregiver to prepare the client quickly for a safe transfer. Unlike other transfer devices, the TRAM has no slings and requires little or no preparation to transfer clients.
Optional scale
The TRAM’s optional scale allows the caregiver to weigh a client easily during transfer, as well as to measure weight-bearing capability and progress, during supported ambulation.
Built-in up & down switch
Raise and lower the TRAM using the single button built into the right steering handle. When the TRAM is being used as a sit-to-stand device, the caregiver can pull back on the handle to help raise the patient.
Telescoping lift column
The carefully engineered telescoping lift column gives the TRAM its low profile, providing clients with the security and dignity of unobstructed eye contact with their caregivers and surroundings. The TRAM can be raised high enough to support a 6'4" walking client and then retract down to 43½" for compact storage.
Expanding legs
Compact and low-profile, the TRAM can pass through a 28" doorway with ease. Transfer in and out of wider wheelchairs by rotating the leg expander. Lockable front casters make the TRAM a mobile yet secure piece of patient transfer equipment.
Color-coded clips
Caregivers can quickly hook the metal rings into one of the TRAM’s four color-coded clips. The clips have been color-coded for positive identification in written protocols.
Low-base option
With a 3" caster and lower frame base, the low-base TRAM does everything the standard Rifton TRAM does, plus it slides under beds with as low as 4¼" clearance. This option was designed for care environments where hospital bed floor clearance would hinder use of the standard TRAM.
| Maximum working load | 350 lbs (158.8 kg) |
| Batteries | (Replacement batteries available from Rifton.) 12V 2.9 Ah lead-acid gel-type batteries |
| Battery Charger | 100 - 240 V AC, max 650 mA Wall-mounted charger, |
| Wheels | Front: 100mm dual with brake; Rear: 100mm dual |
| Maximum user height | 76" (6'4") (193 cm) |
| Turning diameter | 50" (127 cm) |
| Minimum armpit height | 30.5" (77.5 cm) |
| Overall product length | 45.5" (115.6 cm) |
| Overall product width | 27.5" (69.9 cm) |
| Overall product height | 43.5" (110.5 cm) (min) 58" (147.3 cm) (max) |
| Floor to top of base leg | 6.75" (17.1 cm) |
| Total product weight | 70 lbs (31.8 kg) |
| Lifting speed | 1.5 inch (3.8 cm)/sec with no load |
| Motor | 24V, 6A, permanent magnet motor |
| Emergency lowering | Electrical |
| Motor duty cycle | followed by 18 minutes idle Two minutes continuous use |
| Brand | Rifton |
