Screw Having Discontinuous Scraping Edges

• US 20180106287A1
• Filed: 05/03/2016
• Published: 04/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wurth International AG (Reinhold Würth Holding GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Adolf Wã¼Rth GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Eckert, Rainer, Wunderlich, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 10,641,310 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/00 Screws that cut thread in the body into which they are screwed, e.g. wood screws F16B35/065 takes precedence; joining sheets or plates using screws with two separate threads F16B5/0275, using screws with adjustment sleeves F16B5/0283
• 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 25/0047 the ridge being characterised by its cross-section in the plane of the shaft axis
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0063 with a non-threaded portion on the shaft of the screw
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0068 with multiple-threads, e.g. a double thread screws
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0078 with a shaft of non-circular cross-section or other special geometric features of the shaft
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0084 characterised by geometric details of the tip
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/103 by means of a drilling screw-point, i.e. with a cutting and material removing action

Abstract

A screw has a shaft section which extends axially, a screw thread at the shaft section, which screw thread has thread turns that extend radially starting from the shaft section, a screw tip section which connects to the shaft section, at least one first scraping edge at the screw tip section, and at least one second scraping edge in a region of the shaft section adjacent to the screw tip section. The at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge are spaced at a distance from each other and extend in an axial direction over different areas of the screw.

Claims

1. A screw, comprising:

a shaft section which extends axially,

a screw thread at the shaft section, which screw thread has thread turns that extend radially starting from the shaft section,

a screw tip section which connects to the shaft section,

at least one first scraping edge at the screw tip section,

at least one second scraping edge in a region of the shaft section adjacent to the screw tip section,

wherein the at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge are at a distance from each other and extend in the axial direction over different sections of the screw.

2. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one second scraping edge extends completely or partially within a thread turn, which is next to the screw tip and which extends at least partially in thread turns located in the shaft section.

3. The screw according to claim 1, wherein mutually facing ends of the at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge are arranged within the same thread turn.

4. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge is configured to widen a hole, which has been formed by the screw in an underground to not more than a core diameter of the shaft section.

5. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge is configured to remove material of an underground, into which the screw is to be introduced, so as to form in the underground an excavation for receiving the screw tip section and a core diameter of the shaft section.

6. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one second scraping edge is configured to widen a hole, which has been formed by the screw in an underground to a diameter between a core diameter of the shaft section and an outer diameter of the thread turns.

7. The screw according to any claims 1, wherein the at least one second scraping edge is configured to remove material of an underground, into which the screw is to be introduced, so as to form in the underground an excavation for receiving a part of the shaft section which has a larger outer diameter than a core diameter of the shaft section.

8. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge and/or the at least one second scraping edge is or are configured as a cutting rib.

9. The screw according to claim 1, wherein a gap or a recess is formed between the at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge.

10. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge and/or the at least one second scraping edge is oriented paraxially in a side view of the screw.

11. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge and/or the at least one second scraping edge has, in a side view of the screw, a radial component of extension.

12. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge and/or the at least one second scraping edge has a polygonal cross-section selected from the group consisting of a trapezoidal cross-section, a triangular cross-section or a rectangular cross-section.

13. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the screw tip section is formed conically.

14. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the screw comprises at least one of the following features:

the shaft section has an inhomogeneous outer diameter in at least one intermediate screw thread section between neighbouring thread turns,

the shaft section has a discontinuity between two paraxial partial sections of the intermediate screw thread section in at least an intermediate screw thread section between neighbouring screw threads, and

the shaft section has, in at least one intermediate screw thread section between neighbouring screw threads, a section which is tapering in a direction towards the screw tip section.

17. The screw according to claim 14, wherein the screw comprises at least one of the following features:

at the shaft section, the respective intermediate screw thread sections are configured with an inhomogeneous outer diameter, a discontinuity, and/or a tapering section between more than one half of all neighbouring screw threads, and

an outside profile of the at least one intermediate screw thread section deviates with respect to a screw axis such that an additional material, which connects to a respective thread turn at the rear side is compensated by a missing material, which connects to a respective screw thread on the front side.

19. The screw according to claim 1, configured as a wood screw for introducing in a manner without drilling a pilot hole, into a wood underground.

20. The screw according to claim 1, further comprising:

a screw head which is connected directly or indirectly to the shaft section at the rear side, wherein the screw thread is provided with a drive for rotatingly driving the screw, wherein the drive is configured as a longitudinal slot, as a cross-slot, as an inbus, as a TORX drive or as an AW drive.

22. The screw according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge are at a distance from each other such that an edge at a transition between the screw tip section and the shaft section is free of a scraping edge.

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23. A method for manufacturing a screw for introducing into an underground, the method, comprising:

forming a shaft section which extends axially,

forming a screw thread at the shaft section, which screw thread has thread turns that extend radially starting from the shaft section,

forming a screw tip section which connects to the shaft section,

forming at least a first scraping edge at the screw tip section,

forming at least a second scraping edge in a region of the shaft section adjacent to the screw tip section, and

providing the at least one first scraping edge with respect to the at least one second scraping edge at a distance from each other, such that the at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge extend in an axial direction over different sections of the screw.

24. A method of use of a screw comprising:

providing a screw having a shaft section which extends axially, the screw having

a thread at the shaft section that extends radially starting from the shaft section

a screw tip section which connects to the shaft section,

at least one first scraping edge at the screw tip section,

at least one second scraping edge in a region of the shaft section adjacent to the screw tip section, wherein the at least one first scraping edge and the at least one second scraping edge are at a distance from each other and extend in the axial direction over different sections of the screw,

introducing the screw in a manner without drilling a pilot hole, into a wood underground, and

applying a driving force to the screw.