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The buttress thread form has two main uses: 1) In machinery, it is designed to handle high axial thrust in one direction due to its perpendicular thread face. It has high shear strength and is easy to machine. Buttress threads are often used in artillery breechblocks and vises. 2) In oil field tubing, the buttress thread form provides a tight hydraulic seal with a wedging profile and tapered sealing portion between threaded diameters. It transmits torque and longitudinal force parallel to the axis, and has strength similar to standard pipe threads.

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The buttress thread form has two main uses: 1) In machinery, it is designed to handle high axial thrust in one direction due to its perpendicular thread face. It has high shear strength and is easy to machine. Buttress threads are often used in artillery breechblocks and vises. 2) In oil field tubing, the buttress thread form provides a tight hydraulic seal with a wedging profile and tapered sealing portion between threaded diameters. It transmits torque and longitudinal force parallel to the axis, and has strength similar to standard pipe threads.

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The buttress thread form, also known as the breech-lock thread form,[1] refers to
two different thread profiles. One is a type of leadscrew and the other is a type
of hydraulic sealing thread form. The leadscrew type is often used in machinery and
the sealing type is often used in oil fields.

Contents
1 Buttress thread in machinery
2 Types
2.1 Mechanics
3 Buttress thread in oil field tubing
4 See also
5 References
5.1 Bibliography
Buttress thread in machinery
In machinery, the buttress thread form is designed to handle extremely high axial
thrust in one direction. The load-bearing thread face is perpendicular to the screw
axis.[2] or at a slight slant (usually no greater than 7�)[3] The other face is
slanted, often at 45�. The resulting thread form has the same low friction
properties as a square thread form but at about twice the shear strength due to the
long thread base. This thread form also is easy to machine on a thread milling
machine, unlike the difficult to machine square thread form. It can also compensate
for nut wear using a split nut, much like the Acme thread form.[4]

Buttress threads have often been used in the construction of artillery,


particularly with the screw-type breechblock.[1] They are also often used in vises,
because great force is only required in one direction.[4]

It is obvious on inspection that a buttress thread with perpendicular face,


operating in a split nut, generates minimal disengagement force when tightened in
the normally loaded direction, and thus it is possible to derive quick release
devices to, for example, allow rapid repositioning of the movable jaw of a vise
without having to rotate the screw by many turns. A screw profile, such as acme,
where the thrust face is not perpendicular to the axis, generates a significant
disengagement force on a split nut, therefore a more robust controlling mechanism
would be required. Quick release vices are readily available. It is not known
whether any of them are currently using buttress screws. An expired patent for a
clamp using a buttress thread exists and this article describes a vise whose screw
thread is disengaged by reverse rotation, which is likely to use a buttress thread,
however no currently manufactured devices of that nature have been found at this
time (October 2018).

Types
The image gallery below shows some of the types of buttress threads.

Simple buttress thread form[5]

The ANSI 45�/7� buttress thread form[6]


The British 45�/7� buttress thread form[7]

The 45�/5� buttress thread form[5]

The 33�/3� German "S�gegewinde" (saw tooth) buttress thread form[5]

Mechanics
Main article: Leadscrew
Buttress thread in oil field tubing
In oil field tubing, buttress thread is a pipe thread form designed to provide a
tight hydraulic seal. The thread form is similar to that of Acme thread[8][9] but
there are two distinct threaded portions of differing diameters and profiles, the
larger having a wedging profile, with a tapered sealing portion in between the
larger and smaller diameters. High torque may be transmitted and longitudinal force
is transmitted almost parallel to the axis. The thread is about the same strength
as standard v threads.

See also
Leadscrew
Trapezoidal thread form
References
French, Thomas Ewing (1918-01-01). A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students
and Draftsmen. McGraw-Hill book Company, Incorporated.
Barnwell, p. 163.
US patent 5127784, David Eslinger, "Fatigue-resistant buttress thread", issued
1992-07-07
Bhandari, p. 204.
Oberg, p.1817
Oberg, pp. 1819�1820.
Timings, p. 127.
US patent 6893057, M. Edward Evans, "Threaded pipe connection", issued 2005-05-17
Figure 6.
Oil field glossary entry for buttress thread
Bibliography
Barnwell, George W. (1941), The new encyclopedia of machine shop practice, Wm. H.
Wise & Company.
Bhandari, V B (2007), Design of Machine Elements, Tata McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-
061141-2.
Oberg, Erik; Jones, Franklin D.; Horton, Holbrook L.; Ryffel, Henry H. (2000),
Machinery's Handbook (26th ed.), New York: Industrial Press Inc., ISBN 0-8311-2635-
3.
Timings, Roger Leslie (2005), Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book (3rd ed.),
Newnes, ISBN 978-0-7506-6508-7.
Categories: ScrewsThreading (manufacturing)
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