A screw includes a head having a top face and a conical bottom surface, a shank, and thread convolutions. A chip guiding channel is recessedly formed on the conical bottom surface. On the conical bottom surface are spirally disposed a cutting portion which has a plurality cutting units sequentially arranged in a spiral manner, thereby allowing the chip guiding channel to be surrounded by the cutting units along a spiral track. The spiral arrangement of the cutting units assists the head in cutting fibers of a workpiece which are wound around the head into small chips in a continuous and spiral severing manner to reduce drilling torque and resistance, and the spirally-defined chip guiding channel also facilitates a smooth removal of the chips, thereby allowing the head to fit level with a top surface of the workpiece and increasing a fastening effect.

Disclosed is a sheet-metal fastener configured to join two components, such as sheet-metal. The sheet-metal fastener comprising a head and a shank. The head may define an undercut region and a serrated region. The serrated region can be positioned at an outer perimeter of the head. The serrated region can be composed of a plurality of knurls. The shank extends perpendicularly from the undercut region and comprises one or more threads.

A method of constructing a building comprising the steps of attaching a first panel to a second panel. The first panel is one of a single plenum panel and a multi-plenum panel and the second panel is one of a single plenum panel and a multi-plenum panel.

A multipurpose screw is provided. The screw comprises: a head having a tool engaging formation, a self-drilling drill tip, and a shank extending between the head and the drill tip. The shank includes a threaded portion and an unthreaded portion. The threaded portion includes a major thread extending from the drill tip. The ratio between the major diameter of the major thread and the pitch of the major thread is from 1.2 to 2.4.

A screw for particle board includes a head; a threaded shank; and a plurality of screw threads formed on the threaded shank. The head includes a slot on a top. The threaded shank is formed with the head and includes a shank and a tip at an end of the shank. The screw threads are formed on both the shank and the tip. The shank includes a plurality of longitudinal recesses and a plurality of longitudinal projections. Each recess is adjacent to each projection. Each screw thread is disposed between one of the recesses and the projection adjacent to the recess.

A screw and method for the mounting of boards/planks, in particular fiber cement planks, on a support of wood. The screw comprises milling wings and a first thread between the milling wings and the tip, and a second, larger thread with smaller pitch between the milling wings and the screw head.

In order to prevent wood fringes at the edge of a hole from a countersunk screw (1), the screw-head (2) is provided with a tapering underside and inclined milling-ribs with cavities between the milling-ribs on the tapering underside.

A screw includes at least one helical thread with a peripheral edge having notched regions spaced apart by notch-free regions. An underside of a head of the screw includes projecting nibs.

A drywall screw for fastening a plasterboard panel to a metal support is provided, the screw having a head, a tip portion and an elongate shank, wherein the tip portion adjoins the shank, wherein the drywall screw has a widening element for widening the first borehole in the plasterboard panel to a first borehole diameter t and breaking off upon impinging the metal support, wherein the head exceeds the first borehole diameter t with a pressing-in volume V.sub.1, wherein the shank has a thread-free underhead portion which falls below the first borehole diameter t with a receiving volume V.sub.2 which is at least 80% of the pressing-in volume V.sub.1.

In order to prevent wood fringes at the edge of a hole from a countersunk screw (1), the screw-head (2) is provided with a tapering underside and inclined milling-ribs (8) on the tapering underside. Each milling-rib (8) has a planar front-side (15) delimited by smoothly curved convex milling-edge (17) for milling the material during countersinking of the screw-head (2).