Screw and drive element with chamfer

• US 10,385,902 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2014
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wurth International AG (Reinhold Würth Holding GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Adolf Wã¼Rth GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Wunderlich, Andreas, Starke, Johannes
• Primary Examiner(s): Scruggs, Robert J
• Application Number:
  US15/101,872
• Publication Number:
  US 20160305462A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,728 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 15/005 with cross- or star-shaped cross-section
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 15/008 Allen-type keys
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 21/00 Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools; details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed B25F5/00; for mounting or dismounting wheels B60B29/006; Attachments for drilling apparatus serving the same purpose machines B23P19/06
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 23/003 star-shaped or multi-lobular, e.g. Torx-type, twelve-point star
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 23/0053 with a conical or prismatic recess for receiving a centering pin of the tool apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0015 the material being a soft organic material, e.g. wood or plastic F16B25/0031 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0021 the material being metal, e.g. sheet-metal or aluminium F16B25/0031 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/103 by means of a drilling screw-point, i.e. with a cutting and material removing action

Abstract

Screw for introducing into an underground, comprising a screw shaft and a screw head which is adjoining the screw shaft, in which a drive is formed for rotary driving the screw by a drive element, wherein the drive comprises a hollow wing section at an outer side of the screw with a circular hollow core and hollow wings which are provided along the circumference, wherein the drive comprises a hollow recess section at an inner side of the screw, and wherein the drive at a transition between the hollow wing section and the hollow recess section comprises a chamfer section whose outer surface is angled with respect to an outer surface of the hollow wing section and with respect to an outer surface of the hollow recess section.

Claims

1. A screw comprising:

a screw shaft;

a screw head which adjoins the screw shaft, in which a drive is formed for rotary driving the screw by means of a drive element;

wherein the drive comprises a hollow wing section at an outer side of the screw with a circular hollow core and hollow wings provided along the circumference;

wherein the drive comprises a hollow recess section at an inner side of the screw comprising a hollow cone section;

wherein the drive at a transition between the hollow wing section and the hollow recess section comprises a chamfer section whose outer surface is angled with respect to an outer surface of the hollow wing section and with respect to an outer surface of the hollow recess section;

wherein extensions of the hollow wings extend up into the chamfer section;

wherein the hollow wings from an end of the hollow wing section at an outer side of the screw up to the beginning of the chamfer section have a constant outer diameter; and

wherein the hollow core of the hollow wing section tapers conically towards the inner side of the screw such that a ratio between outer and inner diameters of a hexalobular profile of the hollow wings increases, in an axial direction from the screw head to the screw shaft, to a maximum value being larger than 1.42;

1 and smaller than 1.60;

1.

2. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the drive of the screw in a cross-sectional view has such a shape, that the drive originating from the hollow wing section at an outer side of the screw bends for a first time inwardly to the chamfer section which is directly adjoining, and originating from the chamfer section bends for a second time towards the hollow recess section at an inner side of the screw which is directly adjoining thereto, which hollow recess section in turn is running towards an end point at an inner side of the screw.

3. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the hollow recess section is free from hollow wings and comprises a smooth outer surface.

4. The screw according to claim 1, wherein an opening angle of a cone which is extrapolated from the chamfer section is larger than an opening angle of a cone which is extrapolated from the hollow wing section.

5. The screw according to claim 1, wherein an opening angle of the hollow recess section which is formed as hollow cone section is larger than an opening angle of a cone which is extrapolated from the chamfer section.

6. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the outer surface of the chamfer section is located on a cone with an opening angle in a range between 50°

and 130°

.

7. The screw according to claim 1, wherein an opening angle of the hollow recess section which is formed as hollow cone section is in a range between 100°

and 170°

.

8. The screw according to claim 1, wherein at a radially innermost section of at least a part of the hollow wings, a respective wing edge is formed, wherein the wing edge is formed by two surface sections which are abutting against each other and which are free from curvature at a border region with a wing edge angle in a range between 120°

and 160°

.

9. The screw according claim 1, wherein the screw head is a counter sunk head or a fillister head.

10. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the screw is a self-drilling or a self-cutting screw.

18. An arrangement for introducing a screw into an underground, wherein the arrangement comprises:

a screw which is formed according to claim 1; and

a drive element according to claim 11 for rotary driving the screw for introducing the screw into the underground.

19. The arrangement according to claim 18, wherein the screw and the drive element are adapted to each other, such that, when engaging the drive element into the drive of the screw, a direct contact of a boundary wall of the hollow recess section is made impossible by means of the recess section.

20. A method for introducing a screw according to claim 1 into an underground by a drive element according claim 11, wherein the method comprises:

engaging the hollow wings of the hollow wing section of the screw with the wings of the wing section of the drive element;

engaging the extensions of the hollow wings in the chamfer section of the screw with the extensions of the wings of the chamfer section of the drive element;

rotary driving the screw by means of the drive element.

11. A drive element comprising:

a wing section with a circular core and wings provided along the circumference;

a recess section at an end side comprising a cone section;

a chamfer section at a transition between the wing section and the recess section, wherein an outer surface of the chamfer section is angled with respect to an outer surface of the wing section and with respect to an outer surface of the recess section;

wherein the wings from an end of the wing section which is facing away from the drive of the screw in the rotary operation up to the beginning of the chamfer section have a constant outer diameter;

wherein the core of the wing section tapers conically towards the recess section such that a ratio between outer and inner diameters of a hexalobular profile of the wing sections increases, in an axial direction of the drive element towards a tip of the drive element, to a maximum value being larger than 1.42;

1 and smaller than 1.60;

1.

12. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein an opening angle of a cone which is extrapolated from the chamfer section is larger than an opening angle of a cone which is extrapolated from the wing section.

13. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein an opening angle of the recess section which is formed as cone section is larger than an opening angle of a cone which is extrapolated from the chamfer section.

14. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein the outer surface of the chamfer section is located on a cone with an opening angle in an range between 50 °

and 130.

15. The drive element according claim 11, wherein an opening angle of the recess section which is formed as a cone section is in a range between 100°

and 170°

.

16. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein at a radially innermost section of at least a part of the wings a respective wing edge is formed, wherein the wing edge is formed by two surface sections which are abutting against each other and which are free from curvature at a border region with a wing edge angle in a range between 120°

and 160°

.

17. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein the drive element is configured as a bit, as a wrench or as a screwdriver.

21. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein extensions of the wings extend up into the chamfer section.

22. The drive element according to claim 11, wherein the recess section is free from wings and comprises a smooth outer surface.