Up and down roller

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I have to translate a short assembly instruction but I do not know what this appliance is ment for and do not know if words "up" and "down" mean direction of movement or upper and lower position. This is somethind for the shower.

Water proof bar

Water proof bar (short)

Down roller

Cut water proof bar C2 in 2 pcs, length fitting down side of the fixed glass, inserting it. Connect the up and down rail to the panel upright&fixed glass, connect the rails together with plastic corner.

(B1, B2, E1, E4, E3, C2,Cross screw driver)

Assemble the up Rollers and down Rollers on the door Glass

Put the door glass into the up and down rail. Insert the Water Proof bar C1.

Avangi · Accepted Answer

This sounds like it's already the victim of at least one bad translation.

I suspect "waterproof" is one word, not two.

I get the impression that these are glass panels, one (or more) fixed, and one movable,
as a slide-up/roll-up door - but I've never seen such a thing in a shower. Sounds dangerous.

I suspect there are more than one guide rollers which ride in the "up-and-down rail." I can't imagine that one would be for "up" and another for "down." It would seem logical that they would all be "up-and-down rollers." They would be like little wheels. As you say, it's possible that one is in the upper position and one is in the lower position. Perhaps the rollers are stationary, while the channel, or rail moves up and down with the pannel. (It seems like this would allow only a small amount of travel.)

Do you happen to have pictures?

Avangi · Answer

The more I think about it, it must be sliding glass doors for a tub shower.

Sometimes both panels are movable, but in this case it seems that one is stationary.
(I just noticed that I misspelled "panels" in the previous post.)

The door slides back and forth in channels mounted above and below, and apparently has rollers in both positions. I don't know how many.

This is really terrible. "The up and down rail" should be "the upper and lower rails," in my opinion. But on the other hand, there's no way that two horizontal rails above and below, could be connected with a plastic corner.

Perhaps by "rails" they mean the vertical members of the support frame, which must be secured to the walls. Or perhaps they're talking about channel-shaped reinforcements for the edges of the panels.

It's really impossible to tell without more information.

Natalia09 · Answer

Hi Avangi,

thank you for your consideration, it is really a shower enclosure, I asked the customer. I could send you the complete installation instruction if you are really interested ;-)

This was just a small part from a large instruction which made the thing sound difficult.

Natalia

Avangi · Answer

I'm okay if you're okay.

But I'm really curious: What language were the instructions originally written in? Surely not English!. And what language are you translating them into?

- A.

Avangi · Answer

Looking back, and assuming the door slides horizontally, the expression "the up and down rail" refers to "orientation."
"How is the rail positioned/situated?" (reply) "Up and down." (meaning, "vertically.")

Which rail? The up and down one.
So "rail" does not necessarily refer to the channels in which the door rolls/slides, as these would be horizontal.

Assemble the up Rollers and down Rollers on the door Glass

This has to mean the rollers situated above and the rollers situated below.
It seems to indicate that the rollers are attached to the movable glass panel. My son has one. I'll have to look.

Avangi · Answer

Not much help. Both panels (glass doors) slide, so you can open at the back of the tub or at the front of the tub.
The rollers are in fact attached to the glass doors, but at the top only. So the doors are suspended as it were from the top rollers, two on each door. You might say that the rollers ride/traverse on an overhead rail.
However, I think the term "rail" is used more generally in your writeup, describing a long slender structural member, such as a beam, or a fence rail. (Abe Lincoln was a rail splitter.)

Natalia09 · Answer

The instruction should originate from Germany but the agency normally has only native translators. I translate for this agency into Ukrainian.

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