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1 Screw Jack One of the most common application of the principle of the inclined plane is in the screw jack which is used to overcome a heavy pressure or raise a heavy weight of W by a much smaller force F applied at the handle. R represents the length of the handle and Pthe pitch of the screw, or the distance advances in one complete turn.

Figure 2-4 The screw jack Neglecting the friction the following rule is used: The force F multiplied by the distance through which it moves in one complete turn is equal to the weight lifted times the distance through which it is lifted in the same time. In one complete turn the end of the handle describes a circle of circumference 2 R. This is the distance through which the force F is exerted. Therefore from the rule above (2-2) and

(2-3) Suppose R equals 18 in., P equals 1/8 in. and the weight to be lifted equals 100,000 lb., then the force required at F is then 110 lb. This means that, neglecting friction, 110 lb. at F will raise 100,000 lb. at W, but the weight lifted moves much slower than the force applied at F.

Screw Jack With square threads

A screw jack is a device which is used to raise heavy loads by an small effort. It consists of a square threaded screw fitted into an internally threaded collar of a jack. The load W is placed on the screw and the effort Ph is applied horizontally at the end of lever arm L.

With one rotation of the lever the weight is lifted through a distance equal to the pitch. In case of multithreaded screws the actual pitch is np. From figure when a screw is given one revolution, it will move up by pitch p axially, and horizontally bydm (dm is the mean diameter of the threads). Therefore, inclination of the threads can be calculated by, tan = P / dm where is the helix angle.

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