SCREW STRIP AND PROCESS OF ITS PRODUCTION

摘要

A unitary holding strip made of plastics material for retaining a plurality of screws in a row, the screws having longitudinal axes and a threading with a given outer thread diameter. The unitary holding strip of the invention includes a plurality of screw holding sleeves and lands interconnecting the sleeves which extend along a portion of the threaded length of the respective screw in the axial direction thereof, the lands and sleeves having a wall thickness substantially smaller than the outer thread diameter, and is characterized in that the sleeves comprise inwardly facing screw threads for receiving the screw threading and that they further comprise along one side thereof, substantially between the lands, an area of reduced strength such that a screw which is being threaded into a workpiece is automatically separated from its sleeve while simultaneously maintaining the length of the strip substantially intact and while guiding the screw by the inwardly facing threads of the respective sleeve.