Screw

• US 8,480,342 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2008
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wuerth International AG
• Original Assignee: SWG Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH Part Interest, Wuerth International AG Part Interest
• Inventors: Stiebitz, Guenter, Wolfarth, Uwe
• Primary Examiner(s): Saether, Flemming
• Application Number:
  US12/120,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20080286072A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,881 Days
• Field of Search: 411386-3875, 411/311, 411/413, 411/412
• US Class Current: 411/386
• 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 25/0068 with multiple-threads, e.g. a double thread screws
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/0073 characterised by its pitch, e.g. a varying pitch
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 25/106 by means of a self-piercing screw-point, i.e. without removing material
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 35/044 Specially-shaped ends

Abstract

The invention concerns a screw, in particular a self-tapping screw, with a screw thread which reaches to the front end of the screw formed as a drilling tip. In the front area, starting with a distance from the front end of the screw, there is an opposite thread showing the same pitch as the screw thread, however, its thread height is lower than the thread height of the screw thread. This second, opposite single-thread, double-thread or triple-thread/multi-thread only reaches over the tapered drilling tip and leaves the shank of the screw free. It forms a cutting edge with its thread edge which is used to cut fibers in order to reduce wedge effect during screwing in the screw. The screw is particularly suitable for wood or wood-like materials in the edge areas of structural elements.

Claims

1. Screw, which comprises a self-tapping screw, with a screw head, a screw shaft having a longitudinal screw axis, a screw tip, a screw thread, as well as a cutting thread formed at a cutting thread pitch angle disposed in an opposite direction from a screw thread pitch angle of the screw thread relative to the screw axis, the cutting thread including a cutting edge which starts at a distance from a front end of the screw and only covers a tip portion of the screw;

and

in which the cutting thread includes a plurality of transverse portions extending between turns of the screw thread, the transverse portions of the cutting thread being spaced apart and spaced around at least one complete turn of the screw shaft, said transverse portions being interrupted at most by one turn of the screw thread.

2. Screw according to claim 1, in which the thread height of the cutting thread remains constant in a direction from the front end of the screw to the screw head.

3. Screw according to claim 1, in which the thread height of the cutting thread reduces starting from the front end of the screw and continuing in the direction toward the screw head.

4. Screw according to claim 1, in which the thread pitch of the cutting thread is equal to the thread pitch of the screw thread.

5. Screw according to claim 1, in which the screw thread is a single thread.

6. Screw according to claim 1, in which the screw thread is a multiple thread.

7. Screw according to claim 1, in which the tip of the screw is a drilling tip with the tip of the screw formed conically with a screw thread to the tip.

8. Screw according to claim 1, wherein the pitch angle of the cutting thread and the pitch angle of the screw thread are both in a range from sixty degrees to sixty-five degrees with respect to the screw axis.

9. Screw according to claim 1, in which the cutting thread comprises from two to three windings on the screw shaft;

in which the thread height of the cutting thread is in a range between 0.2 mm and the thread height of the screw thread from a surface of the screw shaft; and

in which the cutting thread pitch angle of the cutting thread is less than or equal to the screw thread pitch angle of the screw thread.