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Stielhandgranate is the German term for "stick hand grenade" and generally refers to a prominent series of World War I and World War II–era German stick grenade designs, distinguished by their long wooden handles, pull cord arming and cylindrical warheads.
In 1923 the Department of Arms started a competition for a new fuse that would fit the German M16 and M17 Stielhandgranate hand grenades, the predecessor of the iconic Model 24. [2] A completely new design by A. Cierpiński of the Kielce-based Granat company was chosen and introduced as A.C. 23. [2]
The grenade used the same fuse assembly (the BZE 39) as the Model 43 Stielhandgranate ("Stick Grenade"), which was screwed into the top of the sheet-metal body. To activate, the dome-shaped cap was unscrewed and pulled with a coiled pull-cord that is pulled before throwing. The color of the cap indicated the burning time of the type of fuze ...
From there, two sub-groups were developed: friction-ignitors where a cord is pulled or a cap is twisted to ignite the delay-fuze like on the German Stielhandgranate; the other being strike-or percussion-ignitors where the user either hit the cap before the throw like on the Japanese Type 10 grenade, or have a spring-loaded striker hit the cap ...
The Timmerman Strap was a metal band under tension around the surface of the grenade that was hooked up to a striker safety in the fuse body. (If the bottle broke prematurely, the Timmerman strap safety would prevent the striker from going off on impact.) To activate the grenade, the user pulled the safety pin from the fuse assembly.
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