Machine Screw - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: machine screwmachine screw
A type of screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole it has a slotted head which can be driven by a screwdriver...
Machine
In general any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified as a screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc especially a construction more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical elements as wheels levers cams etc with their supports and connecting framework calculated to constitute a prime mover or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine and transmit modify and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work as weaving by a loom or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine...
Screw
A cylinder or a cylindrical perforation having a continuous rib called the thread winding round it spirally at a constant inclination so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next used chiefly for producing when revolved motion or pressure in the direction of its axis by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it the former being distinguished as the external or male screw or more usually the screw the latter as the internal or female screw or more usually the nut...
Hindleys screw
A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work It is named from the person who first used the form...
Screw cutting
Adapted for forming a screw by cutting as a screw cutting lathe...
Screw driver
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw...
Machine
Machine, A device or apparatus consisting of, fined and moving parts that work together to perform some function, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 961.Machine, includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transferred, transmitted or applied to a dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (i)]Machine, the meaning of the word 'machine' according to the dictionary in a popular and mechanical sense is '....... more or less complex combination of mechanical parts, as levers, gears, sprocket wheels, pulleys, shafts and spindles, ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change it in some pre-conceived and definite manner, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Mal, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407....
Bed screw
A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies and assisting in launching...
Binding screw
A set screw used to bind parts together esp one for making a connection in an electrical circuit...
Screwing
a amp n from Screw v t...
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