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Screw
a machine part of cylindrical—sometimes conical—shape, with a helical surface; or a part with helical blades. Screws are grouped as follows: screws that interact directly with an external, or working, medium, and screws that interact with a threaded opening of another part. The first group includes screws used for the production of rotary motion from moving gases and liquids (for example, in a wind engine); for the production of a tractive force (for example, an airplane propeller or a screw propeller on a ship); and for moving gases, liquids, and viscous, friable, or lump materials, sometimes with the creation in them of pressure and agitation (for example, in fans, pumps, screw conveyors, screw presses, and stirring screw conveyors). The second group includes motion screws, heavy-duty (force) screws, micrometer screws, fastening screws, and set screws.
A motion screw is the basic part of the screw mechanism in lathes and machines used for the rectilinear movement of assemblies and components (supports, tables, and so on) along a set of guides. Motion screws generally have a trapezoidal thread shape—less frequently square, triangular, or special—for screwing on nuts.
A heavy-duty force screw is a main part of a screw mechanism designed to produce large axial stresses in presses, furnace pushers, jacks (load-lifting screws), and so on. Force screws generally have a trapezoidal or buttress thread, less frequently a square thread. Short force screws, such as those in jacks, work by compression; they are checked for strength and buckling during their design and manufacture. Long force screws work by tension and are tested for tensile strength.
Micrometer screws have a precision thread with a small pitch; they are used in measuring machines, devices, and instruments (for example, in micrometers).
A fastening screw is a basic part of a detachable screw joint; the body of the screw has a threaded shaft at one end and a head at the other end. Fastening screws for metals and other solid materials usually have a triangular cylindrical thread. Noncritical small-diameter (to 8 mm) fastening screws are also made as self-tapping screws, with a tapered portion of partially shaped thread on the point. This type of screw extrudes the thread (in soft metals) or cuts it (in plastics and hard metals) when screwed into a smooth hole. Wood screws, which are used for fastening wooden parts, have a tapered portion of the thread at the point. The screw head serves both as a clamp for the parts to be joined and as a grip for tightening the screw with a screwdriver, wrench, or other tool. Standard fastening screws with hexagonal, square, and other types of heads are widespread.
Setscrews are generally used for the precise clamping of geodetic and other types of instruments, as well as for fastening screws in screw joints. Setscrews differ in the shape of the head and the clamping (adjusting) point.
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