British Standard Pipe (BSP) is a set of technical standards for screw threads that has been adopted internationally for interconnecting and sealing pipes and fittings by mating an external (male) thread with an internal (female) thread. It has been adopted as standard in plumbing and pipe fitting, except in North America, where NPT and related threads are used.

Types

BSPP fitting

Two types of threads are distinguished:

  • Parallel (straight) threads, British Standard Pipe Parallel thread (BSPP; originally also known as[1] British Standard Pipe Fitting thread/BSPF and British Standard Pipe Mechanical thread/BSPM), which have a constant diameter; denoted by the letter G.
  • Taper threads, British Standard Pipe Taper thread (BSPT), whose diameter increases or decreases along the length of the thread; denoted by the letter R.
BSPT Pipe Threads.[2]

These can be combined into two types of joints:

Jointing threads
These are pipe threads where pressure-tightness is made through the mating of two threads together. They always use a taper male thread, but can have either parallel or taper female threads. (In Europe, taper female pipe threads are not commonly used.)
Longscrew threads
These are parallel pipe threads used where a pressure-tight joint is achieved by the compression of a soft material (such as an o-ring seal or a washer) between the end face of the male thread and a socket or nipple face, with the tightening of a backnut.

Thread form

The thread form follows the British Standard Whitworth standard:

  • Symmetrical V-thread in which the angle between the flanks is 55° (measured in an axial plane)
  • One-sixth of this sharp V is truncated at the top and the bottom
  • The threads are rounded equally at crests and roots by circular arcs ending tangentially with the flanks where r ≈ 0.1373P
  • The theoretical depth of the thread is therefore 0.6403 times the nominal pitch h ≈ 0.6403P

Pipe thread sizes

At least 41 thread sizes have been defined, ranging from 1⁄16 to 18, although of these only 15 are included in ISO 7 and 24 in ISO 228.[3][4][5][6] The size number was originally based on the inner diameter (measured in inches) of a steel tube for which the thread was intended, but contemporary pipes tend to use thinner walls to save material, and thus have an inner diameter larger than this nominal size. In the modern standard metric version, it is simply a size number, where listed diameter size is the major outer diameter of the external thread. For a taper thread, it is the diameter at the "gauge length" (plus/minus one thread pitch) from the small end of the thread. The taper is 1:16, meaning that for each 16 units of measurement increase in the distance from the end, the diameter increases by 1 unit of measurement.

G / R
size		 Thread
density
(TPI)		 Thread
pitch		 Major
diameter		 Minor
diameter		 Gauge
length		 Tapping drill
R 95%G 80%
(in) (in−1)(mm) (in)(mm) (in)(mm) (in)(mm) (mm) (mm)
1⁄16 280.907 0.3041 7.723 0.2583 6.561 5⁄32 4.0 6.66.8
1⁄8 280.907 0.3830 9.728 0.3372 8.566 5⁄32 4.0 8.68.8
1⁄4 191.337 0.5180 13.157 0.4506 11.445 0.23676.0 11.511.8
3⁄8 191.337 0.6560 16.662 0.5886 14.950 1⁄4 6.4 15.015.3
1⁄2 141.814 0.8250 20.955 0.7335 18.631 0.32148.2 18.719.1
5⁄8 141.814 0.9020 22.911 0.8105 20.587 0.32148.2 20.721.1
3⁄4 141.814 1.0410 26.441 0.9495 24.117 3⁄8 9.5 24.224.6
7⁄8 141.814 1.1890 30.201 1.0975 27.877 3⁄8 9.5 28.028.3
1 112.309 1.3090 33.249 1.1926 30.291 0.409110.4 30.430.9
1+1⁄8 112.309 1.4920 37.897 1.3756 34.939 0.409110.4 35.135.5
1+1⁄4 112.309 1.6500 41.910 1.5335 38.952 1⁄2 12.7 39.139.5
1+3⁄8 112.309 1.7450 44.323 1.6285 41.365 1⁄2 12.7 41.542.0
1+1⁄2 112.309 1.8820 47.803 1.7656 44.845 1⁄2 12.7 45.045.4
1+5⁄8 112.309 2.0820 52.883 1.9656 49.926 5⁄8 15.9 50.150.5
1+3⁄4 112.309 2.1160 53.746 1.9995 50.788 5⁄8 15.9 50.951.4
1+7⁄8 112.309 2.2440 56.998 2.1276 54.041 5⁄8 15.9 54.254.6
2 112.309 2.3470 59.614 2.2306 56.656 5⁄8 15.9 56.857.2
2+1⁄4 112.309 2.5870 65.710 2.4706 62.752 11⁄16 17.5 62.963.3
2+1⁄2 112.309 2.9600 75.184 2.8435 72.226 11⁄16 17.5 72.472.8
2+3⁄4 112.309 3.2100 81.534 3.0935 78.576 13⁄16 20.6 78.779.2
3 112.309 3.4600 87.884 3.3435 84.926 13⁄16 20.6 85.185.5
3+1⁄4 112.309 3.7000 93.980 3.5835 91.022 7⁄8 22.2 91.291.6
3+1⁄2 112.309 3.9500 100.330 3.8335 97.372 7⁄8 22.2 97.598.0
3+3⁄4 112.309 4.2000 106.680 4.0835 103.722 7⁄8 22.2 103.9104.3
4 112.309 4.4500 113.030 4.3335 110.072 1 25.4 110.2110.7
4+1⁄2 112.309 4.9500 125.730 4.8335 122.772 1 25.4 122.9123.4
5 112.309 5.4500 138.430 5.3335 135.472 1+1⁄8 28.6 135.6136.1
5+1⁄2 112.309 5.9500 151.130 5.8335 148.172 1+1⁄8 28.6 148.3148.8
6 112.309 6.4500 163.830 6.3335 160.872 1+1⁄8 28.6 161.0161.5
7 102.540 7.4500 189.230 7.3220 185.979 1+3⁄8 34.9 186.1186.6
8 102.540 8.4500 214.630 8.3220 211.379 1+1⁄2 38.1 211.5212.0
9 102.540 9.4500 240.030 9.3220 236.779 1+1⁄2 38.1 236.9237.4
10 102.540 10.4500 265.430 10.3220 262.179 1+5⁄8 41.3 262.3262.8
11 83.175 11.4500 290.830 11.2900 286.766 1+5⁄8 41.3 287.0287.6
12 83.175 12.4500 316.230 12.2900 312.166 1+5⁄8 41.3 312.4313.0
13 83.175 13.6800 347.472 13.5200 343.408 1+5⁄8 41.3 343.6344.2
14 83.175 14.6800 372.872 14.5200 368.808 1+3⁄4 44.5 369.0369.6
15 83.175 15.6800 398.272 15.5200 394.208 1+3⁄4 44.5 394.4395.0
16 83.175 16.6800 423.672 16.5200 419.608 1+7⁄8 47.6 419.8420.4
17 83.175 17.6800 449.072 17.5200 445.008 2 50.8 445.2445.8
18 83.175 18.6800 474.472 18.5200 470.408 2 50.8 470.6471.2

These standard pipe threads are formally referred to by the following sequence of blocks:

  • the words, Pipe thread,
  • the document number of the standard (e.g., ISO 7 or EN 10226)
  • the symbol for the pipe thread type:
    • G, external and internal parallel (ISO 228)
    • R, external taper (ISO 7)
    • Rp, internal parallel (ISO 7/1)
    • Rc, internal taper (ISO 7)
    • Rs, external parallel
  • the thread size

Threads are normally right-hand. For left-hand threads, the letters, LH, are appended.

Example: Pipe thread EN 10226 Rp 2+1⁄2

The terminology for the use of G and R originated from Germany (G for gas, as it was originally designed for use on gas pipes; R for rohr, meaning pipe.)

Pipe and fastener dimensions

G / R
size		 Typ. nut
sizes		 Corresponding pipe
DN OD Wall
(in) (mm) (mm) (mm) (mm)
1⁄16 3
1⁄8 15 6 10.2 2
1⁄4 19 8 13.5 2.3
3⁄8 22 or 23 10 17.2 2.3
1⁄2 27 15 21.3 2.6
3⁄4 32 20 26.9 2.6
1 43 25 33.7 3.2
1+1⁄4 53 32 42.4 3.2
1+1⁄2 57 40 48.3 3.2
2 70 50 60.3 3.6
2+1⁄2 65 76.1 3.6
3 80 88.9 4
4 100 114.3 4.5
5 125 139.7 5
6 150 168.3 5

ISO 7 (Pressure Tight threads)

The standard ISO 7 - Pipe threads where pressure-tight joints are made on the threads consists of the following parts:

  • ISO 7-1:1994 Dimensions, tolerances and designation
  • ISO 7-2:2000 Verification by means of limit gauges

ISO 228 (Non Pressure Tight Threads)

The standard ISO 228 - Pipe threads where pressure-tight joints are not made on the threads consists of the following parts:

  • ISO 228-1:2000 Dimensions, tolerances and designation
  • ISO 228-2:1987 Verification by means of limit gauges

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BSPM = British Standard Pipe Mechanical". Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Pipe Thread Types and Designations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
  3. ↑ maryland metrics. "Maryland Metrics thread data charts". Archived from the original on 24 July 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "RoyMech: Pipe Threads". Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "How to ID British (BSP) Threads" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "BSP Thread data". www.practicalmachinist.com. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
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