Abstract: A screw includes a shank which has a tip end and a rear end. A concrete thread and a timber thread are disposed on the shank. The concrete thread and the timber thread are helically aligned with one another and the concrete thread reaches further to the tip end than the timber thread. The timber thread has an engagement zone which includes at least one turn of the timber thread and, in the engagement zone, the timber thread becomes wider with decreasing distance from the rear end.

Abstract: A screw having a shank, wherein the shank has a tip end, a rear end, and a longitudinal axis extending through the tip end and through the rear end, wherein the tip end and the rear end are opposite ends of the shank, and a screw thread, which is connected to the shank, and which winds around the shank, wherein a wedge groove is provided in the shank, which wedge groove winds around the shank and extends alongside at least a section of the screw thread, wherein the wedge groove is delimited by a rearwardly tapered wedge flank for wedging a grout shell surrounding the shank. At least one ridge is provided within the wedge groove, wherein the ridge compartmentalizes the wedge groove.

Abstract: A screw including a shank having a tip, a rear end, which is located opposite the tip, and a longitudinal axis, which extends through the tip and through the rear end, and a screw thread helix, which is arranged on the shank, wherein the screw thread helix has a screw thread ridge for engaging into an internal screw thread groove. The screw thread helix has axial tipward play with respect to the shank, wherein the tipward play increases as the axial distance of the screw thread helix from the tip increases.

Abstract: A screw includes a tipward shank section, a screw thread helix, and a rearward shank section. The screw thread helix is disposed on the tipward shank section, protrudes from the tipward shank section, and winds around the tipward shank section. The rearward shank section has a coupler where a tensile load is introducible into the screw by the coupler. The tipward shank section and the screw thread helix are non-monolithic with respect to one another. The tipward shank section and the rearward shank section are non-monolithic with respect to one another.

Abstract: A connecting member for a windscreen wiper system is disclosed. The connecting member includes a head portion and a shaft portion. The shaft portion is configured to be assembled between an output shaft and a transmission housing of the windscreen wiper system to adjust the position of the output shaft in the transmission housing. An outer circumference of the shaft portion includes a plurality of laser engraved longitudinal patterns. The longitudinal patterns include at least one groove engraved in an axial direction of the shaft portion. The plurality of laser engraved longitudinal patterns also include a plurality of microscopic gripping structures formed along a boundary of the at least one groove.

Abstract: A screw includes a shank having a tip, a rear end which is disposed opposite the tip, and a longitudinal axis which extends through the tip and through the rear end. The shank consists of a first steel material. A screw thread helix is disposed on the shank and protrudes from the shank. The screw thread helix consists of a second steel material that is different from the first steel material. Both the first steel material and the second steel material are stainless steels.

Abstract: A method for processing a screw body, including a screw body providing step in which a screw body made of a hardenable steel is provided, a primary coating step, in which the screw body is coated with a primary coating that includes zinc, wherein the primary coating step follows the screw body providing step, and a tip hardening step, in which a tip region of the screw body, which is coated with the primary coating, is selectively heated, at least in part and with the ad-mission of oxygen, to a temperature required for hardening, characterized in that the tip hardening step follows the primary coating step. A screw that can be obtained using this method is also provided.

Abstract: A screw includes a shank where a thread helix receiving groove winds around the shank and is disposed in the shank. A thread helix is disposed in the thread helix receiving groove where the thread helix has an expandable helix section. The shank has, at the thread helix receiving groove, a wedge flank for radially expanding the expandable helix section as the shank is moved relative to the expandable helix section. The expandable helix section has a helical back and a plurality of expansion fingers projecting axially from the helical back towards the wedge flank. The wedge flank of the thread helix receiving groove is configured for radially displacing the plurality of expansion fingers outwardly as the shank is moved relative to the plurality of expansion fingers.

Abstract: A method for temporarily releasing a screw anchorage includes unscrewing and removing a primary screw having a thread that is tappingly engaged in a mating thread in an ungrouted hole in a mineral substrate from the ungrouted hole. Subsequently to the unscrewing and removing, a retrofitting screw is screwed into the hole to form an annular gap between the retrofitting screw and the mineral substrate. A hardenable grout is placed in the annular gap and the hardenable grout is hardened in the annular gap.

Abstract: A screw having a shank, wherein the shank has a tip end and a rear end, and a screw thread, which is connected to the shank, and which winds around the shank, wherein a wedge groove is provided in the shank, which wedge groove winds around the shank and extends alongside at least a section of the screw thread, wherein the wedge groove is delimited by a rearwardly tapered wedge flank for wedging a grout shell surrounding the shank, characterized in that the shank has a buffer zone, which extends alongside the wedge flank and alongside the screw thread, and which adjoins the wedge flank and which adjoins the screw thread, wherein the rearward taper of the wedge flank is larger than the rearward taper of the buffer zone.

Abstract: A screw having a shank, wherein the shank has a tip end, a rear end, and a longitudinal axis extending through the tip end and through the rear end, wherein the tip end and the rear end are opposite ends of the shank, and a screw thread, which is connected to the shank, and which winds around the shank, wherein a wedge groove is provided in the shank, which wedge groove winds around the shank and extends alongside at least a section of the screw thread, wherein the wedge groove is delimited by a rearwardly tapered wedge flank for wedging a grout shell surrounding the shank. The screw thread extends further towards the rear end of the shank than does the wedge groove.

Abstract: A screw having a shank, wherein the shank has a tip end, a rear end, and a longitudinal axis extending through the tip end and through the rear end, wherein the tip end and the rear end are opposite ends of the shank, and a screw thread, which is connected to the shank, and which winds around the shank, wherein a wedge groove is provided in the shank, which wedge groove winds around the shank and extends alongside at least a section of the screw thread, wherein the wedge groove is delimited by a rearwardly tapered wedge flank for wedging a grout shell surrounding the shank. At least one ridge is provided within the wedge groove, wherein the ridge compartmentalizes the wedge groove.

Abstract: A method for producing a drill shaft for a wet drill bit includes forming N, where N?1, strip materials into a tubular body where the tubular body is integrally joined at strip edges of the strip materials by N connection welds. At least one strip material of the strip materials is provided with at least one recess before the integral joining of the strip edges.

Abstract: A screw including a shank having a tip end and a rear end, which is located opposite the tip end, and at least one screw thread, which is arranged on the shank, which winds around the shank and which protrudes from the shank, wherein the screw thread includes a separate screw thread section, which is constituted by a separate helix element that is non-monolithically arranged on the shank. The at least one screw thread includes a thread start, which extends further towards the tip end than does the separate screw thread section, and which forms a generally helical continuation of the separate screw thread section, wherein the thread start and the shank are monolithic.

Abstract: A screw including a shank, at least one screw thread, which is arranged on the shank, winds around the shank and protrudes from the shank, and a separate helix element, which is arranged non-monolithically on the shank, wherein the separate helix element winds around the shank, protrudes from the shank, and constitutes at least a section of the at least one screw thread. The screw further includes at least one first claw, which projects from the shank, and which has both radial and axial overlap with the separate helix element, wherein the shank and the at least one first claw are monolithic with respect to one another.

Abstract: A screw includes a shank having a tip, a rear end which is disposed opposite the tip, and a longitudinal axis which extends through the tip and through the rear end. The shank consists of a first steel material. A screw thread helix is disposed on the shank and protrudes from the shank. The screw thread helix consists of a second steel material that is different from the first steel material. Both the first steel material and the second steel material are stainless steels.

Abstract: A screw including a shank having a tip, a rear end, which is located opposite the tip, and a longitudinal axis, which extends through the tip and through the rear end, and a screw thread helix, which is arranged on the shank, wherein the screw thread helix has a screw thread ridge for engaging into an internal screw thread groove, wherein the shank has a rearwardly facing abutment structure, which extends alongside the screw thread helix, for axial abutment of the screw thread helix. The pitch of the screw thread ridge increases as the axial distance of the screw thread ridge from the tip increases, and the screw thread helix has axial tipward play with respect to the rearwardly facing abutment structure, so as to permit axial compression of the screw thread helix.

Abstract: A screw including a shank having a tip, a rear end, which is located opposite the tip, and a longitudinal axis, which extends through the tip and through the rear end, and a screw thread helix, which is arranged on the shank, wherein the screw thread helix has a screw thread ridge for engaging into an internal screw thread groove. The screw thread helix has axial tipward play with respect to the shank, wherein the tipward play increases as the axial distance of the screw thread helix from the tip increases.

Abstract: A screw includes a shank where a thread helix receiving groove winds around the shank and is disposed in the shank. A thread helix is disposed in the thread helix receiving groove where the thread helix has an expandable helix section. The shank has, at the thread helix receiving groove, a wedge flank for radially expanding the expandable helix section as the shank is moved relative to the expandable helix section. The expandable helix section has a helical back and a plurality of expansion fingers projecting axially from the helical back towards the wedge flank. The wedge flank of the thread helix receiving groove is configured for radially displacing the plurality of expansion fingers outwardly as the shank is moved relative to the plurality of expansion fingers.

Abstract: A method for the layered production of a green body (10) from powdery material, including insert elements which are placed at defined positions in the powdery material, in which the green body (10) is segmented in a building direction (16) into N, N?2 consecutive, cylindrical cross-sectional areas (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) made up of a two-dimensional cross-sectional surface and a layer thickness. Setting areas for the insert elements are defined in the cross-sectional areas of the green body (10) which include the defined positions for the insert elements, and loose powder particles surrounding the setting elements are at least partially bonded to each other before the insert elements are placed into the powdery material.