Winker

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Winker on a historic automobile
Winker on a vehicle of the Armstrong Siddeley brand , built in 1954
Historic Leipzig tram car with indicators

Winker or arm winker , in Switzerland pointers , are mechanical or electromagnetically operated direction indicators on motor vehicles or trams and are the forerunners of the blinker . For example, they were registered on new cars in the Federal Republic of Germany until 1963.

history

As early as 1912, the then Fuhrwerk-Berufsgenossenschaft (Fuhrwerk-Berufsgenossenschaft), together with Allgemeine Berliner Omnibus AG, proposed a direction indicator as a technical innovation. However, it was not until 1922 that a functional direction indicator was built by Eugen Zipperle and August Nagel as an arm winker , which was moved using Bowden cables . They received utility model protection in 1924 for the arm winker with housing. In 1927, Alfred Schwarz introduced the first electrically swinging arm waver. In 1925, Robert Bosch built the first electrically operated and additionally illuminated direction indicator. This winker, the so-called car wave , swung up and down when the signal was given.

With Section 54 (1) of the Ordinance on the Admission of Persons and Vehicles to Road Traffic (Road Traffic Licensing Regulations, StVZO, RGBl. I No. 123/1937, p. 1215) of November 13, 1937, yellow-red indicators were used for display mandatory for changes of direction of travel.

In the Federal Republic of Germany it was legally stipulated that from July 1, 1961 on "first in traffic" and from July 1, 1963 on "the other" (ie on vehicles already in traffic) over four meters in length and 1.6 Meter-wide flashing lights are attached to the front and rear. Numerous conversion kits were offered for this purpose, whereby the indicators that were no longer required were removed and the openings were closed with suitable covers. The use of the winker is still permitted today in classic cars.

Even today in Luxembourg direction indicators Winker called. In Switzerland they are called pointers , which is also carried over to “set the indicator” (“set the pointer”). In the Austrian and Bavarian regions, there is also the term “Reimdeita” (or “Reibndeita” or “Reibmdeita”), where Reim is a dialect name for curve and Deita is derived from Deuter .

The so-called winker trowel is used to regulate traffic by supervisory bodies .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A century of automotive technology - commercial vehicles, page 371, VDI-Verlag 1987, ISBN 3-18-400656-5 .
  2. ^ Chronicle of Technology, page 417, Weltbild-Verlag 1997, ISBN 3-86047-134-1 .
  3. ↑ http://www.bg-verkehr.de/medien/sicherheitsprofi/2010/SiPro_2010-6_LZ_opt.pdf ( Memento from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) SicherheitsProfi 6/2010, pages 28, 29 (PDF; 4.2 MB) + VerkehrsRundschau No. 37-2010.
  4. ^ Text of the StVZO from 1937, accessed on February 27, 2018.
  5. ^ New version of the Road Traffic Licensing Regulations (StVZO) from December 6, 1960 . § 72 Entry into force and transitional provisions of § 54. In: BGBl. 1960 I . S. 945 ( bgbl.de [PDF; accessed on February 19, 2020]).

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