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  2. List of screw drives - Wikipedia

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    A square screw drive uses four-sided fastener heads which can be turned with an adjustable wrench, open-end wrench, or 8- or 12-point [69] sockets. Common in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when it was easier and cheaper to manufacture than most other drives, it is less common today (although still easy to find) because the external hex is ...

  3. Robertson screw - Wikipedia

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    Robertson screw. A Robertson screw, also known as a square screw[1] or Scrulox, [2] is a type of screw with a square -shaped socket in the screw head and a corresponding square protrusion on the tool. Both the tool and socket have a slight taper. The contemporary square drive screw has all but replaced the Robertson screw proper and is commonly ...

  4. P. L. Robertson - Wikipedia

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    P. L. Robertson. Illustration from the 1909 Canadian patent for the Robertson screw. Peter Lymburner Robertson (December 10, 1879 – September 28, 1951) was a Canadian inventor, industrialist, salesman, and philanthropist who popularized the square-socket drive for screws, often called the Robertson drive. Although a square-socket drive had ...

  5. Square thread form - Wikipedia

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    Square thread form. The square thread form is a common screw thread profile, used in high load applications such as leadscrews and jackscrews. It gets its name from the square cross-section of the thread. [1] It is the lowest friction and most efficient thread form, but it is difficult to fabricate.

  6. Screwdriver - Wikipedia

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    Screwdriver with rubber handle. The tool used to drive a slotted screw head is called a standard, common blade, flat-blade, slot-head, straight, flat, flat-tip, [ 6 ] or " flat-head " [ 7 ] screwdriver. This last usage can be confusing, because the term flat-head also describes a screw with a flat top, designed to install in a countersunk hole.

  7. Talk:List of screw drives - Wikipedia

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    There are dozens of examples, e.g. "the Supadriv screwhead is similar to Pozidriv but has only two identification ticks", "The double-square drive is two squares superimposed at 45° rotation, forming an 8-pointed star". "Torx Plus Security, is a five-lobed variant, with a center post."

  8. Screw - Wikipedia

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    Screw. An assortment of screws, and a US quarter for size comparison. A wood screw: a) head; b) non-threaded shank; c) threaded shank; d) tip. The six classical simple machines. A screw is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to the head. The most common uses of screws are ...

  9. Hex key - Wikipedia

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    The idea of a hex socket screw drive was probably conceived as early as the 1860s to the 1890s, but such screws were probably not manufactured until around 1910. Rybczynski (2000) describes a flurry of patents for alternative drive types in the 1860s to the 1890s in the U.S., [2] which are confirmed to include internal-wrenching square and triangle types (that is, square and triangular sockets ...

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