Belay device#Sticht plate

The Sticht plate ( also Magic Plate) is an older backup device when climbing.

The original Sticht plate - also called Sticht brake - was developed by Fritz Sticht, a Frankish climbers. He put it in 1967 for the first time to the public and let them in 1969 to market by the company Salewa. She was the first mechanical rope brake and thus the successor of abseiling called the carabiner brake. Because this ancient technique still came before the Schraubkarabinern out of time and had to be laboriously threaded with four normal carbines, the Sticht brake was a step forward. The device was safe and easy, and for this reason it was very popular with mountain guides. Once in the 1970s, two fatal climbing accidents had occurred in connection with the Sticht brake as a backup device (each with Sturzzug at the stand down), she came in much of Europe into disuse, especially since the UIAA 1973, developed by Werner Munter 1970 Munter hitch backup as new backup method recommended. The Sticht plate remained in England and the USA in use and formed the basis for the later development of Tubes. The renaissance of the Sticht brake in the form of Magic Plate set in when pitches were increasingly equipped with secure bolts; because at checkpoint backup it has the advantage that the cable is bekneift when backing up one or two Nachsteigern itself.

There are different versions of the Sticht plate, but all have in common that a tile with two parallel, several inches long slots is provided. By one or both slots bays of single or half and twin ropes now be threaded and secured with a screw-lock before slipping back.

In place of the Sticht plate today are more likely Tubes (eg Reversos or ATCs ), which can be regarded as a further development, uses, and the Sticht plate has hardly any significance.