locker
The locker (since the 16th century, low German, medium low, locker = cupboard; medium lat.spinda , spenda = supply (container); lat.spendere) is a simple cupboard for storing work clothes , changing clothes or other items. It is narrow, robust and can usually be locked with a lock . There are lockers made of wood or sheet metal, often with ventilation openings.
Lockers are usually in locker rooms set up, for example in swimming pools , saunas and the chewing of industrial companies . However , traditionally, lockers are not common in mining ; In the chews there, drying is important and constructed differently.
Soldier locker
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The soldier locker was developed to store the uniforms and equipment of a soldier , e.g. B. the Bundeswehr locker. This has two doors and is significantly wider than the lockers in changing rooms. The design of the soldier's locker is standardized, the shelves for uniforms and equipment are strictly regulated, so that completeness can be checked at a glance. In the course of procuring lockers for the Bundeswehr, two types were introduced: on the one hand the so-called NCO's locker with a width of 120 cm and the crew locker with a width of 90 cm. Both models are the same in terms of the interior (catering compartment, security compartment, etc.). The larger locker should make it easier for temporary and professional soldiers to fully accommodate their equipment, which is often also civilian, in the locker. A follow-up model to the classic BBT locker was available in orange, green or blue and had a beech decor.
Fire department locker
A locker at the fire brigade should be freely accessible and therefore open so that the equipment can be used immediately in an emergency. The locker usually has a helmet rack, which is designed so that the neck leather on the helmet stays in shape. Alternatively, various helmet holders are offered that can be attached to the locker. Furthermore, the fire department locker contains a clothing compartment in which protective clothing or civilian clothing can be stored. The floor of the locker is designed as a boot rack and perforated so that wet protective clothing can dry. There is a security compartment in the locker that enables the emergency services to lock up valuables.
schools
In Austria around 1960 it was common for elementary school students to hang up their street clothes (rain gear, jacket, hat / cap) on a row of personally assigned cloakroom hooks and put their shoes in a compartment under a narrow pull-on bench underneath. These simple cloakrooms along a wall could be arranged in the corridor or in the classroom, where clothes could dry better through heating. The most valuable commodity, the pen, already for ink cartridges , was in the pen pennal in the school bag, hung on the side in the place in the school desk (two- person desk).
In buildings around 1970, class cloakrooms were increasingly installed in the basement, which was now also centrally heated. In a classic construction, the walls are made of steel grids with a 3 cm grid in order to achieve good visibility and burglary protection with a low fire load. The staircase leads from the upper floors to the "clean" corridor (slipper area) of the basement. Each of a row of lattice doors leads into an elongated class wardrobe with typically a row of hooks on both sides and a bench with a shoe rack underneath. Behind the cloakroom rows runs the "dirty" corridor with its own stairs to the exit. Clothing, gym equipment, possibly the school bag, for example during gymnastics, were locked up for each class. Eventually there were - for each class - box compartments for geometric drawing.
With the advent of mobile phones and smartphones among children, the need for lockers in primary schools increased. In 2016 it was debated that some (higher) schools in Vienna had outsourced the construction and operation of lockable lockers to private providers and that students would have to pay an annual rent of up to € 40 for this.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ ZDv 10/5 “Life in the Military Community” (PDF; 2.0 MB) - III. Room and locker arrangement, 312–319.
- ↑ Rent for school lockers: Ministry checks , orf.at August 24, 2016, accessed August 26, 2016.