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Patent number: 4697969
Patent number: 4697969
Filing date: Sep 6, 1985
Filing date: Sep 6, 1985
Issue date: Oct 6, 1987
Issue date: Oct 6, 1987


This patent claims an improved wood screw with either a flat head, hex head or phillips head, and having two flutes of semi-circular cross-section, the first beginning at the tip of the screw and ending near the head of the screw, and the second beginning at the tip of the screw and continuing a length of about three screw heads from the tip.  Both flutes have a diameter about a third of the screw's root diameter, and the tangent lines to each flute axis form an angle of 30º with the screw's axis.
This patent claims an improved wood screw with either a flat head, hex head or phillips head, and having two flutes of semi-circular cross-section, the first beginning at the tip of the screw and ending near the head of the screw, and the second beginning at the tip of the screw and continuing a length of about three screw heads from the tip.  Both flutes have a diameter about a third of the screw's root diameter, and the tangent lines to each flute axis form an angle of 30º with the screw's axis.

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Wood Screw

Patent number: 4697969

Filing date: Sep 6, 1985

Issue date: Oct 6, 1987


This patent claims an improved wood screw with either a flat head, hex head or phillips head, and having two flutes of semi-circular cross-section, the first beginning at the tip of the screw and ending near the head of the screw, and the second beginning at the tip of the screw and continuing a length of about three screw heads from the tip. Both flutes have a diameter about a third of the screw's root diameter, and the tangent lines to each flute axis form an angle of 30º with the screw's axis.