Screw Flight

One flight of a screw conveyor or auger, right or left hand: standard, tapered or ribbon, as the flat blank that is pulled out to one pitch. One flight of a screw conveyor or auger, right or left hand: an ordinary flight round the shaft, a tapered flight whose outside diameter changes along it, or a ribbon that stands clear of it. Each is the flat blank that is pulled out to one pitch.

• Standard flight
• Tapered flight
• Ribbon flight

How the screw flight is developed, with a worked example · Rings and helicals