![]() ![]() With the further development of the GEKA quick coupling into the GEKA plus quick coupling in 1999, this ingenious system underwent a 100% improvement in its technical data. The development of the GEKA quick coupling laid the foundation stone for an even more successful quick connector system for hoses. In 1932, the patent was granted for the GEKA quick coupling. The trademark “GEKA” is derived from the names of the Giersberg company = GE and KA = KARASTO. He had the idea of making the Giersberg fire extinguisher coupling (the predecessor at the turn of the century to the present-day Storz coupling) compatible with conventional hoses by means of appropriate reduction and modification. Relatively early in the history of our company, in 1931, Mr Oehler developed the GEKA quick coupler. KARASTO was founded in 1928 in Stuttgart-Gablenberg by Mr Julius Oehler. The name of KARASTO is intimately associated with the very idea of the water hose fitting. A short extract from the history of KARASTO Armaturenfabrik Oehler GmbH, Fellbach
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