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Machinery's H<strong>and</strong>book 27th Edition<br />
SCREW THREADS 1729<br />
maximum <strong>and</strong> minimum boundary profiles. The value of flank diametral displacement is<br />
equal to pitch diameter tolerance in a pitch line reference thread system.<br />
Height of Thread: The height (or depth) of thread is the distance, measured radially,<br />
between the major <strong>and</strong> minor cylinders or cones, respectively.<br />
Helix Angle: On a straight thread, the helix angle is the angle made by the helix of the<br />
thread <strong>and</strong> its relation to the thread axis. On a taper thread, the helix angle at a given axial<br />
position is the angle made by the conical spiral of the thread with the axis of the thread. The<br />
helix angle is the complement of the lead angle. (See also page 1966 for diagram.)<br />
Higbee Cut: See Blunt Start Thread.<br />
Imperfect Thread: See Incomplete Thread.<br />
Included Angle: This is the angle between the flanks of the thread measured in an axial<br />
plane.<br />
Incomplete Thread: A threaded profile having either crests or roots or both, not fully<br />
formed, resulting from their intersection with the cylindrical or end surface of the work or<br />
the vanish cone. It may occur at either end of the thread.<br />
Interference Fit: A fit having limits of size so prescribed that an interference always<br />
results when mating parts are assembled.<br />
Internal Thread: A thread on a cylindrical or conical internal surface.<br />
Lead: Lead is the axial distance between two consecutive points of intersection of a helix<br />
by a line parallel to the axis of the cylinder on which it lies, i.e., the axial movement of a<br />
threaded part rotated one turn in its mating thread.<br />
Lead Angle: On a straight thread, the lead angle is the angle made by the helix of the<br />
thread at the pitch line with a plane perpendicular to the axis. On a taper thread, the lead<br />
angle at a given axial position is the angle made by the conical spiral of the thread with the<br />
perpendicular to the axis at the pitch line.<br />
Lead Thread: That portion of the incomplete thread that is fully formed at the root but<br />
not fully formed at the crest that occurs at the entering end of either an external or internal<br />
thread.<br />
Left-h<strong>and</strong> Thread: A thread is a left-h<strong>and</strong> thread if, when viewed axially, it winds in a<br />
counterclockwise <strong>and</strong> receding direction. Left-h<strong>and</strong> threads are designated LH.<br />
Length of Complete Thread: The axial length of a thread section having full form at both<br />
crest <strong>and</strong> root but also including a maximum of two pitches at the start of the thread which<br />
may have a chamfer or incomplete crests.<br />
Length of Thread Engagement: The length of thread engagement of two mating threads<br />
is the axial distance over which the two threads, each having full form at both crest <strong>and</strong><br />
root, are designed to contact. (See also Length of Complete Thread.)<br />
Limits of Size: The applicable maximum <strong>and</strong> minimum sizes.<br />
Major Clearance: The radial distance between the root of the internal thread <strong>and</strong> the<br />
crest of the external thread of the coaxially assembled designed forms of mating threads.<br />
Major Cone: The imaginary cone that would bound the crests of an external taper thread<br />
or the roots of an internal taper thread.<br />
Major Cylinder: The imaginary cylinder that would bound the crests of an external<br />
straight thread or the roots of an internal straight thread.<br />
Major Diameter: On a straight thread the major diameter is that of the major cylinder.<br />
On a taper thread the major diameter at a given position on the thread axis is that of the<br />
major cone at that position. (See also Major Cylinder <strong>and</strong> Major Cone.)<br />
Maximum Material Condition: (MMC): The condition where a feature of size contains<br />
the maximum amount of material within the stated limits of size. For example, minimum<br />
internal thread size or maximum external thread size.<br />
Minimum Material Condition: (Least Material Condition (LMC)): The condition where<br />
a feature of size contains the least amount of material within the stated limits of size. For<br />
example, maximum internal thread size or minimum external thread size.<br />
Minor Clearance: The radial distance between the crest of the internal thread <strong>and</strong> the<br />
root of the external thread of the coaxially assembled design forms of mating threads.<br />
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