A screw cap or closure is a common type of closure for bottles, jars, and tubes. The first screw-on lid was patented in 1858 by John Landis Mason for a...
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A screw cap is a metal, normally aluminium, cap that screws onto threads on the neck of a wine bottle, generally with a metal skirt down the neck to resemble...
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defined the "twist-off" crown cap, now used in the United States, Canada, and Australia. This cap is pressed around screw threads instead of a flange and...
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A screw is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to the head. The most common uses...
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Mazda trademark. The bulbs have right-hand threaded metal bases (caps) which screw into matching threaded sockets (lamp holders). For bulbs powered by...
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Alternative wine closure (section Screw caps)
trichloroanisole (TCA). The closures debate, chiefly between supporters of screw caps and natural corks, has increased the awareness of post-bottling wine chemistry...
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At a minimum, a screw drive is a set of shaped cavities and protrusions on the screw head that allows torque to be applied to it. Usually, it also involves...
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Closure (container) (section Screw top)
closure Bottle of Geritol with a child-resistant cap An opened flip-top bottle closure A screw cap capsule is fitted onto a wine bottle and heat shrunk...
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opening that can be closed with a lid, screw cap, lug cap, cork stopper, roll-on cap, crimp-on cap, press-on cap, plastic shrink, heat sealed lidding film...
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each plastic stopper released 10 times more CO2, whilst an aluminium screw cap releases 26 times more CO2 than does a cork stopper. For example, to produce...
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cap torque tester is used in the packaging industry to measure the opening or closing torque of the screw cap. Proper torque is required for the cap to...
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security ring serves as a tamper resistant or tamper evident function to a screw cap, lid, or closure. The term tamper-proof is sometimes used but is considered...
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tops of bottles Reverse vending machine Ring-a-bottle Screw cap Alternative wine closure Screw cap Spin the bottle Storage of wine Vase Water rocket The...
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Growlers are generally made of glass and have either a screw-on cap or a hinged porcelain gasket cap, which can maintain freshness for a week or more. A...
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when the T.Mi.Z.43 fuze is inserted and the pressure plate (or screw cap) is screwed down into place, it shears a weak arming pin inside the fuze with...
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term "set screw" or "setscrew" refers simply to a bolt which is fully threaded, with no smooth shank; called cap screw in the US. Set screws are not always...
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Vial (redirect from Screw vial)
commonly used closure systems. For glass vials, options include screw vials (closed with a screw cap or dropper/pipette), lip vials (closed with a cork or plastic...
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of metal – tin-plated steel, stainless steel or aluminum – with a screw cap, the cap frequently being secured to the bottle neck with a short chain or...
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shatter into jagged pieces, and has the advantage of being closed using a screw cap to retain a drink's carbonation. But in practice, the use of plastic is...
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Model 39 grenade (section Fuse cap colour-codes)
four seconds was used. It could also be used in place of the bottom side screw cap on the "Stielhandgranate" stick grenades. If it was to be used as a fixed...
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or plastic. The flask's mouth is either furnished with a plastic snap/screw cap or fitted with a joint to accommodate a PTFE or glass stopper. The neck...
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Pharmaceutical Co. vending machines as well. The bottle cap was briefly replaced with a screw bottle cap, but following a nationwide scare during the 1980s...
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vessel should be sealed airtight by any means, such as a cork plug, a screw-cap with a rubber seal, cementing, etc. In his patent, Durand clearly mentions...
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A ball screw (or ballscrew) is a mechanical linear actuator that translates rotational motion to linear motion with little friction. A threaded shaft...
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his stage name DJ Screw, was an American hip hop DJ based in Houston, Texas, and best known as the creator of the chopped and screwed DJ technique. He...
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specimen collection Bijou bottle a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder Biosafety cabinet used to work with dangerous...
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the nest. The screw cap on the pupil surface is sunken, and a few small pinholes are present. The larvae die at the new stage screw cap (pupa). At the...
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the glass of a glass bottle may have an effective total barrier but the screw cap closure and the closure liner might not. Look up hermetic seal in Wiktionary...
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Screw piles, sometimes referred to as screw-piles, screw piers, screw anchors, screw foundations, ground screws, helical piles, helical piers, or helical...
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Polyethylene Polypropylene Pressure-sensitive tape Pump dispenser Screw cap Screw cap (wine) Security printing Security tape Shock detector Shock and vibration...
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