| Flexible
Magnetic Strips
From our company history:
1956 - Invention and manufacture
of the first flexible
permanent magnet
using isotropic
barium ferrite
What happened...
"Child suffocated in
refrigerator" - up
to the mid-fifties
a frequent topic
in te newspapers.
How could the poor
children ever free
themselves when
trapped inside a
refrigerator which
could only be opened
from the outside
and nobody heard
their knocking?
Thus, an American manufacturing
group for electrical
appliances consulted
Max Baermann and
soon a set of five
samples of a magnetic
safety locking was
airmailed to the
USA. It was only
shortly afterwards
that an even better
solution occurred
to the Cologne-based
technical designer.
Within a period
of a few weeks he
developed the flexible
magnetic rubber:
A flexible magnetic
strip is inserted
into a hollow gasket
profile which is
then firmly attracted
by the steel casing
of the refrigerator.
The General Tire
& Rubber Co.
of USA was granted
a general license
for this amazingly
simple system. It
is cheaper than
a lock, provides
better sealing and
does not required
any kind of adjustment.
Today, all important
refrigerator brands
worldwide are equipped
with this magnetic
strip locking.
(Excerpt from "Die westdeutsche Wirtschaft und ihre
fuehrenden Maenner" North
Rhine Westphalia, Part III,
published in 1975)
Grateful recognition ... (
The White
House )
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