Applications

Screw threads have several applications:

•Fastening:
• Fasteners such as wood screws, machine screws, nuts, and bolts.
• Connecting threaded pipes and hoses to each other and to caps and fixtures.
•Gear reduction via worm drives
•Moving objects linearly by converting rotary motion to linear motion, as in the leadscrew of a jack.
•Measuring by correlating linear motion to rotary motion (and simultaneously amplifying it), as in a micrometer.
•Both moving objects linearly and simultaneously measuring the movement, combining the two
aforementioned functions, as in a leadscrew of a lathe.
In all of these applications, the screw thread has two main functions:
•It converts rotary motion into linear motion.
•It prevents linear motion without the corresponding rotation.