Definition of Helix angle

1. Noun. The constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone.

Generic synonyms: Angle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Helix Angle

helium flash
helium fusion
helium group
helium speech
helium star
helium stars
helium variable
helium variables
heliumlike
heliums
helix
helix-coil transition
helix-loop-helix motifs
helix-turn-helix motifs
helix (snails)
helix angle (current term)
helix destabilising protein
helix loop helix
helix turn helix
helixes
helixlike
hell
hell's bells
hell's teeth
hell-bent
hell-diver
hell-divers
hell-for-leather
hell-hole
hell-holes

Literary usage of Helix angle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1920)
"6 A more extreme case, but now a very common one, is a five-threaded worm where the helix angle for the diameter of the model here shown is approximately 30 ..."

2. Handbook for Machine Designers and Draftsmen by Frederick Arthur Halsey (1913)
"Graphical construction for helical gears of 45 deg. helix angle. A nearly a right angle. It is apparent from this illustration that the length of the normal ..."

3. Mechanical World and Engineering Record (1881)
"It will thus be seen that for a volute spring wound with constant helix angle the maximum stress when all coils are pressed home is in the smallest coil. ..."

4. Spiral and Worm Gearing: A Treatise on the Principles, Dimensions by Erik Oberg (1914)
"When worms have a large helix angle (15 degrees or more) the dimensions of the thread should be measured at right angles to the helix. ..."

5. Modern Toolmaking Methods: A Treatise Om Precision Dividing and Locating by Franklin Day Jones (1915)
"As the helix angle of the thread in this case is 15 degrees 30 minutes, the factor for this angle is found by taking the values between those given for 15 ..."

6. American Machinist Gear Book: Simplified Tables and Formulas for Designing by Charles Hays Logue, Reginald Trautschold (1922)
"It is also clear that if the normal pitch is decided upon at the start, a diameter of cylinder and a helix angle must be found such that the normal pitch, ..."

7. A Textbook of Pure Mechanism by Frederick Hubbard Sibley (1914)
"is the normal helix and /? is the normal helix angle. ... The smaller the helix angle is made the nearer the gear approaches to a spur gear. ..."

8. Stresses in Wire-wrapped Guns and in Gun Carriages: By Lieutenant Colonel by Colden L'Hommedieu Ruggles (1916)
"The efficiency of a pair of spiral or worm-gears varies with the helix angle which the thread makes with a line perpendicular to the axis of the gear having ..."

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