Examples

See also: Archimedes' screw

Examples of screw threads include:

• Fasteners:
  • Wood screws.
  • Nuts and bolts, machine screws, cap screws.
• C-clamps.
• Threaded pipe fittings.
• Threaded attachments used to mount equipment on stands, such as:
  • The case screw used to mount a camera on a photographic tripod.
  • The thread used to mount a microphone or microphone cradle on a microphone stand.

See also

• Unified Thread Standard
• ISO metric screw thread
• National Thread Form
• Acme Thread Form
• Buttress Thread Form
• National Pipe Thread Form
• Dryseal Pipe Threads Form
• Hose Coupling Screw Thread Form
• Metric: M Profile Thread Form
• Metric: MJ Profile Thread Form
• Joseph Whitworth
• British Association screw threads (BA)

Notes

References

• Bhandari, V B (2007), Design of Machine Elements, Tata McGraw-Hill, ISBN 9780070611412, http://books.google.com/books?id=f5Eit2FZe_cC .
• Green, Robert E. et al (eds) (1996), Machinery's Handbook (25 ed.), New York: Industrial Press, ISBN 978-0-8311-2575-2 .
• Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), English and American Tool Builders, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press, LCCN 16-011753 . Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (LCCN 27-024075); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, IL, USA (ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7). Also available online via Google Book Search.
• Wilson, Bruce A. (2004), Design Dimensioning and Tolerancing (4th ed. ed.), Goodheart-Wilcox, ISBN 1-59070-328-6 .

External links

• International Thread Standards