Guido Storz

Carl August Guido Storz (born August 9, 1847 in Meersburg ; † 1919 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German engineer and inventor who worked for Zulauf & Cie. From 1882 to 1915 . worked.

background

Storz worked as an engineer for the Grand Duke of Baden and lived in Frankfurt am Main. For his improvements to the previous connections of pipe and hose couplings, he was granted patent number 3134 in Switzerland on November 26, 1890. Also in the United States on January 3, 1893, he was granted patent no. 489,107. Page invention related to the couplings for pipes and hoses, as they were used in fire fighting.

The reason for its development was a fire in Constance , which caused difficulties in connecting hoses with screw connections. After a thorough study of the systems of “couplings with equal halves” that had been developed since 1877, he patented a new type of coupling in 1882. The Reichsnormalkupplung in sizes A, B, C and D, introduced by all German fire services in 1936 , can be traced back to these . The system standardized in Germany is widespread in Europe.

literature

Central and State Library Berlin: pipe and hose connection with bayonet lock. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. Edition XXIII. 1903, No. 29 of April 11, 1903, p. 184.
Walther Adolf Roth: Chemiker-Zeitung, Volume 43. Verlag der Chemiker-Zeitung, Cöthen-Anhalt, 1919, p. 101.
Wolfgang Hornung: A short history of the fire brigade. Fire protection and extinguishing equipment technology from antiquity to the present (= Die Rote Hefte. 21). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965, OCLC 907762365 .

Web links

Fire brigade couplings on feuerwehrgeschichte.de
Storz couplings on mcc-germany.com
Picture of the coupling according to US patent: No. 489,107. dated January 3, 1893. from patentimages.storage.googleapis.com, accessed February 18, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ Company profile - In the beginning there was the idea ... of today's ZR-Armaturen GmbH , accessed on February 18, 2016.
↑ Carl August Guido Storz . January 3, 1893 ( google.com [accessed May 16, 2019]).
^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Development of fire protection . In: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Obertiefenbach e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of the Obertiefenbach volunteer fire brigade . Reference 2005, ISBN 978-3-926262-03-5 , pp. 116-117 .
^ Alfons Rempe: Manual for operational fire protection. Structure, implementation, optimization. WEKA specialist publ. for technical executives, Augsburg, ISBN 3-8111-4471-5 , ( books.google.de )

personal data
SURNAME	Storz, Guido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Storz, Carl August Guido (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer, inventor of the Storz coupling for fire hoses
DATE OF BIRTH	August 9, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meersburg
DATE OF DEATH	1919
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Company profile - In the beginning there was the idea ... of today's ZR-Armaturen GmbH , accessed on February 18, 2016.

[2] Carl August Guido Storz . January 3, 1893 ( google.com [accessed May 16, 2019]).

[3] Franz-Josef Sehr : Development of fire protection . In: Freiwillige Feuerwehr Obertiefenbach e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of the Obertiefenbach volunteer fire brigade . Reference 2005, ISBN 978-3-926262-03-5 , pp. 116-117 .

[4] Alfons Rempe: Manual for operational fire protection. Structure, implementation, optimization. WEKA specialist publ. for technical executives, Augsburg, ISBN 3-8111-4471-5 , ( books.google.de )