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WOOD SCREW [13 records]

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Fasteners
DEF

A heavy screw used for wood and having a usually hexagonal or square head.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Clouterie et visserie
DEF

Grosse vis à bois à tête carrée ou polygonale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Clavos y tornillos
DEF

Tornillo de cabeza poligonal corrientemente cuadrada o hexagonal terminado en punta.

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Record 2 2021-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Hardware
  • Joints and Connections (Construction)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
CONT

Threaded rods can be used for example to join metal and wood, in wall construction and also in furniture. The threading enables nuts [or] bolts... to screw on to the rod quickly and easily.

Key term(s)
  • threadbar
  • threadrod

French

Domaine(s)
  • Quincaillerie générale
  • Joints et assemblages (Construction)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)
CONT

Les tiges filetées sont des fixations qui se composent d'une longue tige dotée de filetages tout le long ou seulement aux extrémités. Ces tiges sont similaires [aux vis], mais beaucoup plus épaisses et longues.

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

wood screw : an item in the "Woodworking Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

vis à bois : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement de travail du bois» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Joining Elements (Mechanical Components)
  • Metal Fasteners
CONT

Wire eye lags... have a wood screw thread [that allows them to be used] in wood or lag anchors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments d'assemblage (Composants mécaniques)
  • Clouterie et visserie

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foundry Practice
DEF

A steel spike used to rap and draw a pattern from the sand.

OBS

A draw spike is driven into the wood of the pattern, as opposed to a draw screw, which is threaded.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonderie
DEF

Tige métallique pointue que l'on enfonce dans le bois des petits modèles pour les démouler.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

A woodworker’s clamp with two hardwood jaws joined by a pair of right-hand and left-hand threaded screws that maintain parallel adjustment of the jaws when their handles are turned in the same direction.

CONT

Wood screw clamps are made of two heavy baseboards connected by parallel bolts. These must be maintained parallel to each other to be effective.

CONT

Adjustable hand screws. Termed hand screws, these woodworking clamps have maple jaws that do not require pads of scrap wood to protect the work. Since the steel clamping screws operate through crosswise pivots in the wood jaws, they can be set at any required angle. Sizes, based on jaw length, range from 6 to 14 inches, openings from 3 to 10 inches ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
CONT

Les serre-joints de bois doivent être réglés correctement pour le serrage des pièces.

OBS

Pluriel : des serre-joints.

OBS

serre-joints (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

serre-joint : Outil utilisé par les ajusteurs, les menuisiers, les ébénistes, les monteurs, pour assembler provisoirement entre eux les différents éléments d'un ensemble afin d'effectuer des opérations communes à ces éléments ou d'assurer le serrage des assemblages pendant la prise de la colle.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

... [tool used to make] pilot holes for wood screws. It is made with a long taper that corresponds to the taper of the wood screw.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
DEF

[...] outil permettant de percer de petits trous dans des bois tendres et peu épais.

Spanish

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Record 8 1999-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biomass Energy
CONT

Densified Pellet Technology. Pellets are dried ground wood or other biomass waste compressed into small cylinders about 6 mm(1/4 in.) in diameter and 25 mm(1 in.) long. The pressure and heat created during their production binds the pellets together without the need for additives. Pellet-burning appliances include a hopper to hold at least 20 kg of fuel and a screw auger to move the pellets from the hopper into the combustion chamber. Pellets usually burn cleanly because they are fed to the combustion chamber at a controlled rate and are matched with the right amount of combustion air. These appliances are generally able to operate at lower emission levels than natural firewood appliances.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie de la biomasse
DEF

Particules de matière végétale sèche, broyées mécaniquement, dont la taille est d'environ 6 mm à 25 mm.

OBS

La matière végétale est [...] broyée, séchée, comprimée, jusqu'à 200 kg de pression et soumise à une température de 170°.

Spanish

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Record 9 1994-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Small Electric Tools
CONT

This type of bit is referred to as a "selfeed bit" and is believed to be very popular for use in cutting holes in wood construction for pipe sizes ranging from at least ½" through 4". Some of these selfeed bits have replaceable feed screw pilots.

OBS

Figure.

Key term(s)
  • self-feed bit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Petit outillage électrique
CONT

La mèche de ce type est dite à auto-avance et semble très employée pour percer des pièces de bois de construction en vue d'y faire passer des tuyaux de diamètre variant entre ½ po et 4 po. Certaines de ces mèches possèdent des forets pilotes remplaçables.

Spanish

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Record 10 1982-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Locks and Locksmithing
OBS

a knob forming the head of a screw that is fixed in a wood piece.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Serrurerie
OBS

bouton à vis servant à ouvrir une porte, un tiroir, etc.

Spanish

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Record 11 1982-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Locks and Locksmithing
OBS

a wood or metal piece revolving on a central screw for retaining a door closed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Serrurerie
OBS

morceau de bois ou de métal qui tourne autour d'un axe et sert à maintenir une porte fermée.

Spanish

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Record 12 1979-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metal Fasteners
  • Finish Carpentry
DEF

a bolt made with a tapered lag-screw thread on one end and a machine-bolt thread on the other and used in timber construction.

CONT

Hanger bolt(or screw) has one end that is threaded like a screw so it can be driven into wood; the other end is threaded to accept a square or hex nut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Clouterie et visserie
  • Menuiserie
CONT

Vis-boulon à tables: Une de leurs extrémités est filetée, comme une vis; on l'enfonce dans le bois. L'autre extrémité est filetée pour recevoir un écrou.

Spanish

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Record 13 1978-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finish Carpentry (Wood Industries)
  • Do-it-yourself (Hobbies)
DEF

any hole made in a piece of wood to guide a screw.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Menuiserie (Industr. du bois)
  • Bricolage
CONT

Si vous percez des avant-trous, vos vis ne fendront pas le bois comme le font souvent les clous. Quand on assemble deux pièces de bois avec une vis, l'avant-trou de la première pièce sort au fût de la vis, et celui-ci reste libre dans cet avant-trou. L'avant-trou doit être assez petit pour que les filets mordent fermement dans le bois, mais pas trop, car autrement, la vis ne réunira pas les deux morceaux assez serrés.

Spanish

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