BRITISH STANDARD 1657:1950

BUTTRESS
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THREADS

Endorsement May 1961

Reconfirmed TAS July 1984

Reconfirmed TAS Jan 1987

BRITISH STANDARD 1657 : 1950

is endorsed as

AUSTRALIAN STANDARD

No. B.182—1961
without Australian amendment

STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA

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BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION

 BRITISH STANDARD SPECIFICATION

BUTTRESS

THREADS
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B.S. 1657: 1950

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BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION

Incorporated by Royal Charter
 B.S. 1657 : 1950

THIS BRITISH STANDARD , having been approved by the

Mechanical Engineering Industry Standards Committee
and endorsed by the Chairman o f the Engin eering
Divisional Council, was published under the authority of
the General Council on 17th August, 1950.

The Institution desires to call attention to the fact that

this British Standard does not purport to include all the
necessary provisions of a contract.

In order to keep abreast of progress in the industries

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concerned, British Standards are subject to periodical

review. Suggestions for improvements will be recorded
and in due course brought to the notice of the committees
charged with the revision of the standards to which they refer.

A complete list of British Standards, numbering over 1600,

indexed and cross-indexed for reference, together with an
abstract of each standard, will be found in the Institution’s
Yearbook, price 5s. post free.

This standard includes reference to the following British

Standard :—

B.S. 1044. Recommended designs for plug, ring and gap gauges.

British Standards are revised, when necessary, by the issue

either of amendment slips or of revised editions. It is
important that users of British Standards should ascertain
that they are in possession of the latest amendments or edition.

Users wishing to be informed of any alteration to this

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CONTENTS

Page

Co-operative organizations 4
Foreword 5

SPECIFICATION

1. Scope 5
2. Definitions 6
3. Basic form of British Standard buttress thread 6
4. Preferred diameters 6
5. Preferred pitches 6
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6. Tolerances 7
7. Allowances 8
8. Designation of British Standard buttress threads 9
9. Gauges 10

TABLES

1. Numerical data for standard form buttress

screw threads 13
2. Tolerances. Close class 14
3. Tolerances. Medium class 15
4. Tolerances. Free class 16
5. Allowances. All classes 17
Relative tolerances and allowances for the
three classes of buttress threads. Fig. 2 18
Disposition of allowances and tolerances for
standard form buttress screw threads. Fig. 3 19

6. Design sizes for gauges 20

Thread forms of buttress thread gauges.
Fig. 4 21
7. Numerical data for special 0°/52° buttress
screw threads 25
8. Thread measuring cylinders for standard
form buttress threads 29
9. Thread measuring cylinders for special 0°/52°
form buttress threads 30

APPENDICES

A. Special 0°/52° form of buttress thread 23

B. Effective diameter equivalents for pitch and
angle errors 26
C. Measurement of effective diameters of
buttress screws 26

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CO-OPERATING ORGANIZATIONS

The Mechanical Engineering Industry Standards

Committee, under whose supervision this British
Standard was prepared, consists of representatives
from the following Government departments and
scientific and industrial organizations :—

Admiralty
Air Ministry
Associated Offices Technical Committee
Association of Consulting Engineers Incorporated
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British Chemical Plant Manufacturers’ Association

British Compressed Air Society
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association
British Engineers’ Association
British Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturers’ Association
British Iron & Steel Federation
British Railways
Crown Agents for the Colonies
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Engineering Equipment Users’ Association
Institute of Marine Engineers
Institute of Petroleum
Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Gas Engineers
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Automobile Division)
Institution of Production Engineers
Locomotive Manufacturers’ Association
Machine Tool Trades’ Association
Ministry of Fuel and Power
Ministry of Labour and National Service
Ministry of Supply
Ministry of Transport
Ministry of Works
Office of the High Commissioner for India
War Office

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BRITISH STANDARD SPECIFICATION FOR

BUTTRESS THREADS
FOREWORD

This British Standard has been prepared under the authority of the
Mechanical Engineering Industry Standards Committee at the request of
the Ministry of Supply, following the Anglo-American-Canadian
Conferences on the unification of engineering standards held during
1943-5.
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It provides for a standard form of thread and gives formulae for

calculating suitable allowances and tolerances. A recommended system
of gauging is also included.
In selecting the form of the standard thread, manufacture by the
thread milling or grinding processes has been taken into consideration.
Appendix A gives details of an alternative form of thread which is
unsuitable for manufacture by these two methods but which may be
required to meet certain special requirements.
This standard includes preferred series for the diameters and
numbers of threads per inch of buttress threads but, as the use of
buttress threads is confined mainly to specially designed components,
no attempt has been made to introduce a rigid pitch/diameter
relationship.
The buttress form of thread has certain advantages in applications
involving exceptionally high stresses in one direction only, along the
thread axis. As the thrust side of the thread is made very nearly per-
pendicular to the thread axis, the radial component of the thrust is
reduced to a minimum and a solid bearing between the mating threads
is produced. On account of this small radial thrust the buttress form of
thread is particularly suitable when tubular members are screwed
together. Examples of actual applications are the breech mechanisms of
large guns, aeroplane propeller hubs, and columns for hydraulic presses.

SPECIFICATION
SCOPE
1. This British Standard relates to screw threads of buttress form and
provides:
a. a standard form of thread
b. tables of preferred diameters and of preferred pitches
c. a formula for calculating effective diameter tolerances
d. tolerances for major and minor diameters

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