Abstract: An indexable cutting insert (1) for a side milling cutter (11) includes two insert surfaces facing away from each other. Both insert surfaces include a relief-like profile (6).

Abstract: A clamp fastens a cutting insert to a tool holder. The clamp assembly includes a body portion provided with a screw hole, a forward protrusion formed at the front portion of the body and extending downward, a rear protrusion formed at the rear end portion of the body and extending downward, and a bridge connecting the forward protrusion and the central portion of the body. The clamp assembly also includes a pressing plate having upper and lower surfaces, a front nose portion, a rear end portion, and is provided with a keyhole shaped groove having an enlarged inner cavity open toward the rear end by a narrow neck extending thicknesswise. The forward protrusion is inserted into the enlarged inner cavity and the bridge is inserted into the narrow neck of the keyhole groove so that the pressing plate is coupled to the clamp.

Abstract: A cutting tip for a cutting tool includes a tool portion including a cutting edge, and a shank portion connected at a first end to the tool portion. The tip comprises at least three grooves in the shank portion, at least a portion of each groove extending circumferentially around at least part of the shank portion, a centering structure for centering the shank portion relative to an opening in a toolholder, and an axial stop for limiting axial movement of the shank portion into the opening in the toolholder, the axial stop and the centering structure being different structures.

Abstract: A cutting edge-replaceable cutting tool includes a tool body, and a cutting insert is removably installed on the tool body. The cutting tool-replaceable cutting tool includes an insert mounting seat formed on the tool body and on which the cutting insert is mounted, and a upper wall portion formed integrally with the tool body and overhanging the insert mounting seat.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a main body provided with a pocket part and a cutting insert seated in the pocket part. The pocket part includes at least one side wall and bottom surface. The bottom surface of the pocket part includes a pocket part base surface, a first pocket part inclined surface connected to an inner end of the base surface on an inside of the main body, and a second pocket part inclined surface connected to an outer end of the base surface on an outside of the main body. The cutting insert has an upper surface, a lower surface and side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The lower surface of the cutting insert includes an insert base surface, a first inclined surface inclined upwardly from a first side of the base surface towards a first side surface, and a second inclined surface inclined upwardly from a second side of the base surface towards a second side surface.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a main body which is provided with an upper surface, a side surface, at least one groove which is formed in the side surface and which extends to the upper surface at one end, and a plurality of split cutting blades which are split by the at least one groove. The upper surface is provided with inclined portions corresponding to the split cutting blades. The distance of respective lower ends of the inclined portions from the corresponding split cutting blades increases toward the centers of the corresponding cutting blades in a plan view. A cutting tool having the cutting insert and a method for cutting a workpiece using the cutting tool are also provided.

Abstract: A cutter is provided with a releasably secured cutting insert nested in an insert pocket. The cutting insert is generally polygonal shaped in top view, and has a protrusion received in a recess formed in a cutter body. The cutter may be applied in turning, milling, boring and/or drilling, threading and/or chamfering, facilitating usage of one interchangeable insert tool as opposed to several, solid tools.

Abstract: A temporary coupling mechanism facilitates replacement of a cutting tip in a pocket of a cutting tool, by preventing the cutting tip from falling out of the pocket when a clamping member, e.g., a screw member or wedge member, is loosened. The pocket is provided with a first coupling portion and the cutting tip is provided with a second coupling portion configured to engage the first coupling portion. In one embodiment, the second coupling portion is at least one concave groove or convex portion located in a predetermined position of the cutting tip. A convex portion or a concave groove is provided in at least one of the pocket's tip mounting seat and the clamping member to engage the concave groove and the convex portion of the cutting tip.

Abstract: A cutting insert of the present invention includes a side face having an upper concave portion which is located between an upper face and a lower face and extends up to the upper face, and a plurality of divided upper cutting edges which are located at the intersection of the upper face and the side face, and are divided by the upper concave portion. Each of these divided upper cutting edges includes a first end and a second end, and is inclined being closer to the lower face from the first end toward the second end. The plurality of divided upper cutting edges include a first divided upper cutting edge and a second divided upper cutting edge adjacent to each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for machining a workpiece, comprising a holder having a locating opening arranged at the end face and a cutting head having at least one cutting element arranged on the workpiece-side end. Furthermore, the tool has a sleeve which is made substantially of carbide and which, with a first, holder-side end, is inserted in an accurately fitting manner into the locating opening of the holder, and the cutting head is arranged in or on the second, cutting-head-side end of said sleeve, and coupling means for coupling the holder, cutting head and sleeve.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool with an adjustable cutting plate. The rotating machine tool substantially comprises a base member with a rotating axis, at least one pocket formed in the base member and at least one blade support holding a cutting plate. Two side surfaces of the blade support sit against a side support surface, respectively, said blade support side surfaces making an angle between them, and the base of the blade support sits against a base support surface of the pocket, the blade support being clamped in the pocket removably by way of a clamp element. The cutting plate protrudes over the blade support with an effective blade and over the base member outward.

Abstract: The present invention relates to embodiments of a cutting tool holder having at least one insert pocket, wherein at least one insert pocket comprises a side surface and at least one antirotation stop protruding from the side surface. The antirotation stop may comprise at least two substantially planar surfaces. In certain embodiments, the cutting tool holder may have a pocket which comprises a bottom surface and an antirotation stop having three substantially planar surfaces that are substantially perpendicular to the bottom surface. The antirotation stop may be integral to the tool holder or may be produced separately and attached, either permanently or temporarily, to the tool holder. Embodiments may further comprise additional antirotation stops if desired by the machining application.

Abstract: A cutting tool is described comprising a cutting insert with an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface, and a cutting blade formed at the intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, and a holder comprising an insert pocket to which the cutting insert is attached. The cutting insert is attached to the holder in such a manner that the cutting blade projects outward from the front end surface and the outer peripheral surface of the holder. The holder comprises in the outer peripheral surface on a rear end side with respect to the cutting blade a concave curve-shaped first wall surface portion that extends from the vicinity of the insert pocket toward the rear end side. The lower end of the front-end-side edge of the first wall surface portion is disposed at a lower position than the cutting blade.

Abstract: A toolholder has a pocket adapted to receive a double-sided on-edge cutting insert, wherein the corners of each side of the insert are radially shifted with respect to one another and has mounting pads preferably mounted about the sides of the cutting insert. The relief area for the corners of the insert is selectively fabricated to maximize the length of the support pads within the pocket of the toolholder.

Abstract: A tool interface (5) that is easy to produce but also precise for coupling a tool head (2) to a tool shank (3) in a centered manner in respect of a shank axis (4), comprises a first interface part (6) that is connected to the tool shank (3) or to the tool head (2), and a second interface part (7) that is connected to the respectively other tool part, namely, to the tool head (2) or to the tool shank (3). The two interface parts (6, 7) have interface surfaces (9, 10) that substantially complement each other and are intended to bear flatly on each other. The interface surface (9) of the first interface part (6) comprises an inner cone surface (21) and an outer cone surface (22), which surrounds the latter on the outside and coaxially.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end. The forward end includes an insert-receiving pocket with a threaded hole having a center axis. The cutting tool further includes a cutting insert with a countersunk bore with a center axis. The cutting tool includes an error proofing feature for preventing the cutting insert to be properly mounted in an insert-receiving pocket when an offset distance between the center axis of the threaded hole of the insert-receiving pocket and the center axis of the countersunk bore of the cutting insert is greater than a predetermined percentage of the outer diameter of the threaded screw.

Abstract: A cutting tool (10) comprises a shank (12) for receiving a cutting insert (14) and a block (16) for delivering a flow of fluid to the cutting insert (14). Fluid is delivered to the cutting insert (14) through a fluid passageway (18) that extends through the shank (12) and the block (16). The block (16) is pivotable mounted on the shank (12). The block (16) pivots about screw (22) between a first and a second position. In the first position the block (16) is held in sealing arrangement with the shank (12) to allow the passage of a coolant through the fluid passage (18) to the cutting insert (14). In the second position the block (16) has moved to allow removal of the cutting insert (14) from the shank (12).

Abstract: A metalcutting insert that is useful in chipforming and material removal from a workpiece The metalcutting insert includes a metalcutting insert body, which includes a cutting edge having at least one discrete cutting location. The metalcutting insert body further contains a distinct interior coolant passage communicating with the discrete cutting location. The distinct interior coolant passage has a coolant passage inlet defining a coolant passage inlet cross-sectional area, a coolant passage discharge defining a coolant passage discharge cross-sectional area, and an axial coolant passage length. The distinct interior coolant passage defines a coolant flow cross-sectional area along the axial coolant passage length thereof. The coolant passage inlet cross-sectional area is substantially the same as the coolant passage discharge cross-sectional area. The geometry of the coolant flow area changes along the axial coolant passage length.

Abstract: A cutting insert-shim assembly that has a cutting insert with a bottom surface and a plurality of interior coolant passages wherein each interior coolant passage has a coolant inlet in the bottom surface of the cutting insert. The shim has a first side surface and a second side surface and contains a cavity, which communicates with the coolant conduit. The cavity defines a first opening in the first side surface and a second opening in the second side surface. When the shim is in a first condition, the first side surface contacts the bottom surface of the cutting insert and the first opening provides a first level of coolant communication to the interior coolant passages in the cutting insert. When the shim is in a second condition, the second side surface contacts the bottom surface of the cutting insert and the second opening provides a second level of coolant communication to the interior coolant passages in the cutting insert.

Abstract: A clamping mechanism for a cutting insert that clamps the cutting insert in an insert mounting seat having a pair of contacting surfaces facing each other. Contacting surfaces of the insert mounting seat are provided with a pair of inclined planes inclined so as to be formed in a convex V-shape in the cross-section along the contacting direction, and the contact surfaces of the cutting insert are formed in a concave V-shape which has a pair of convex surfaces with roundness to be concave toward the inclined planes, and the pair of inclined planes and the pair of convex surfaces come in contact with each other at a pair of contacting positions, which have an interval therebetween in the width direction orthogonal to the contacting direction.

Abstract: The cutting tip comprises a lateral face for aligned lateral positioning against a lateral alignment line with a tool holder housing, comprising an alignment snout with first and second lateral alignment surfaces that bear respectively against first and second lateral driving alignment surfaces and comprising, at some distance, a third lateral alignment surface for bearing against a third lateral driving alignment wall surface, two out of the first, second and third alignment surfaces being mutually inclined in such a way as to ensure alignment in a chosen position of travel with respect to the driving lateral wall surfaces opposite.

Abstract: A cutting tool of the invention is equipped with a cutting insert comprising an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface connected to the upper surface and the lower surface, and an upper surface side cutting edge and a lower surface side cutting edge formed at an intersection portion between the upper surface and the side surface and at an intersection portion between the lower surface and the side surface, respectively; and a holder comprising at a front part thereof an insert pocket to which the cutting insert is attached. The insert pocket comprises a bearing seat surface against which the lower surface of the cutting insert abuts, and is opened into a front surface and a side surface of the holder, respectively.

Abstract: A cutting tool assembly for boring and internal grooving operations includes a tool head having a removably secured cutting insert at a forward insert receiving end and a rear mating end with a male or female type tool holder coupler in the form of an engagement protrusion or cutting holder receiving pocket. The tool head is fixed to a tool holder with a front mating end having a female or male tool head coupler in the form of a tool head receiving pocket or engagement protrusion. Following assembly, at least three abutting wall surfaces and an adjacent support surface of the tool holder coupler are in contact with at least three non-coplanar abutment surfaces and an adjacent supporting surface of the tool head coupler, respectively, and a fastening screw member extends through a through bore in the tool holder coupler engaging a threaded screw bore in the tool head coupler.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert secured in an insert pocket. The cutting insert has two abutment bars located on its opposing side surfaces. The abutment bars of a respective side surface have generally coplanar outer surfaces which define an imaginary plane that does not intersect any portion of the respective side surface apart from the outer surfaces. The outer surfaces of one set of abutment bars engage a major wall of the insert pocket.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert releasably retained in an insert pocket. The insert pocket includes a supporting portion having support surfaces and a clamping portion including a socket having a socket wall, the socket extending rearwardly from the supporting portion. The cutting insert has a cutting portion with front abutment surfaces and an elongated locating portion extending rearwardly from the cutting portion. The cutting insert is retained in the insert pocket with the front abutment surfaces abutting the support surfaces and with the locating portion located in the socket with abutment surfaces of the locating portion in abutment with the socket wall.

Abstract: A cutting tool with a cutting insert secured in an insert pocket. The cutting insert has a single outwardly protruding engagement protrusion located on its opposing side surfaces. The engagement protrusion of a respective side surface has an outer surface that defines an imaginary plane that does not intersect any portion of the respective side surface apart from that outer surface. The outer surface of one engagement protrusion engages a major wall of the insert pocket.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a coolant conveying member, to provide coolant fluid to a cutting area during a cutting operation. The coolant conveying member includes a member body having a fluid passage formed therein, and a nozzle to convey and to jet out the coolant fluid therethrough. The nozzle is shiftable relative to the member body, between a first, extended position and a second, retracted position. In the extended position, for example, assumed during the cutting operation—the nozzle extends out and forwardly from the member body, stabilized by the continuous flow of coolant fluid therethrough, forcing the nozzle forwardly. In the retracted position, for example, assumed when the when the coolant fluid does not flow through the coolant conveying member, or flows at a very low rate, the nozzle may be at least partially accommodated in the fluid passage, to allow, for example, indexing or replacing of the cutting insert.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool for use in tool machines, comprising a cutting element which is preferably configured as a cutting ring and at least two insert seats that are provided in the cutting element at distance to each other in the circumferential direction. The insert seats are fitted with at least one group of at least two identical insert tips that are detachably arranged therein and that have one working edge each, the effective working edges of the insert tips of one group being cut to the same nominal size. The insert tips are configured as indexable inserts, every single indexable insert of a group being associated with a defined insert seat in all possible positions of adjustment, and the indexable inserts of a group having at least two working edges each, one of these edges being always in the effective and at least one other edge being in the ineffective position, depending on the position of the indexable inserts in the associated insert seats.

Abstract: The detachable insert-type cutting tool is provided with a holder, a head member which has an insert seat on which a cutting insert is detachably mounted and which is detachably attached to a head portion of the holder so that an attachment surface of the head member is closely in contact with an attachment surface of the holder, a coolant hole which is formed inside the holder so as to be opened on the attachment surface of the holder, and a first groove which is formed on the attachment surface of the head member, communicating with the coolant hole opened on the attachment surface of the holder and extending so as to be opened toward a cutting edge of the cutting insert mounted on the insert seat.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool (1) for machining mainly metallic materials, comprising a clamping holder (2) and support (3) for the cutting element. Said support (3), on which a cutting element (6) rests, is arranged on the clamping holder (2). The cutting element (6) is pressed, by means of a clamping claw (5), onto the support (3) for the cutting element and against an abutting surface (7) located outside the support (3) for the cutting element. In order to increase the service life of the clamping holder, the abutting surface (7) is part of an abutment (4) for the cutting element. Said abutment (4) is designed as a separate component and is replaceably mounted on the clamping holder (2).

Abstract: The invention relates to an eight-edged rotatable and reversible cutting insert having two opposite, substantially square base surfaces which are twisted relative to one another about a central axis running perpendicularly to said base surfaces, and having four identical side surfaces. A main lip is formed between each base surface and each side surface and extends only over part of the length of the side surface. Each side surface has two diagonally opposite corner edges which are of circular or curved design and form a secondary lip adjacent to the respective main lip. In addition, each side surface has two chip pockets which are drawn into the side surface and which, starting from the respective corner edge, extend along the main lip assigned to said corner edge up to a rear chip pocket end.

Abstract: A quick change tool holder having a base member, a body, a quick change head member, and a cutting tool cartridge. The base member includes an upper surface, bottom surface, and mating surface and is adapted to removably mount to an associated cutting machine carriage. The body includes an end wall and an inner surface, where the end wall includes a dovetail portion. The body is adapted to engage the base member in an interlocking fashion. The quick change head includes a top surface, a bottom surface, an interface wall having a channel disposed therein, and an outer wall having a plurality of longitudinal grooves, wherein said channel is adapted to receive said dovetail portion. The cutting tool cartridge is adapted to engage the longitudinal grooves of the quick change head.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cutting tool holder for mounting a cutting insert having a top face, a bottom face and an insert bore having an inner surface extending between the top and the bottom faces. The holder includes a seat having a bottom surface and at least one side wall angled to the bottom surface, a seat bore with a bore axis having an open end at the bottom surface of the seat, and a securing mechanism for securing the cutting insert in the seat. The securing mechanism includes a securing pin within the seat bore and a body with an outer surface extending between a proximal end and a distal end of the body. The securing mechanism includes a displacement arrangement separate from the securing pin for axially displacing the securing pin along the bore axis of the seat bore between a first, mounting position and a second, securing position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for the outside milling or for the rotary broaching of tools that rotate about the longitudinal axis thereof during machining, comprising a disk-shaped tool carrier comprising peripherally arranged cutting inserts (15) or cartridges having cutting inserts. According to the invention, the cutting inserts or the cartridges are arranged on a ring-shaped or partially ring-shaped, segment-shaped carrier (11) that is removably fastened to a machine spindle either directly or indirectly via an adapter.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes two parts releasably interconnectable via serration surfaces which are mechanically engageable in each other. At least one of the parts is composed of a first body and a supplemental body on which the serration surface of the one part is formed, and which via a permanent joint is stiffly united to the first body. The permanent joint can be established by laser-welding a shim disposed between the first body and the supplemental body.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a tool body and a cutting insert releasably retained in a pocket of the tool body. The cutting insert has first and second rear insert abutment surfaces and a third forward insert abutment surface and the pocket has first and second rear pocket abutment surfaces and a third forward pocket abutment surface. The first and second abutment surfaces are separated from the third abutment surface by a bore. The third forward pocket abutment surface can be either a socket recessed in a pocket base surface or a protrusion protruding from the base surface; and the third forward insert abutment surface can be correspondingly either a protrusion protruding from an inner surface of the insert or a socket recessed in the inner surface.

Abstract: An indexable insert has one or more recesses formed in a frontside or backside surface which receives a surface of the head of a locking screw. When mounted, the insert is forced against respective support surfaces of an insert pocket. The locking screw is threaded into a counterbored tap hole to engage the insert and provide side locating forces and clamping forces to secure the indexable insert in the insert pocket. More particularly, the indexable insert has a shaped surface recess that mates to a complimentarily-shaped surface on the head of a locking screw and secures the indexable insert in multiple dimensions to a seating surface. A material removal tool and a method of mounting the indexable insert are also disclosed.

Abstract: A tool holding system has a tool holder including a seat and a clamping device having a clamping end aligned with a surface of the seat, a shim mounted in the seat of the tool holder and including a receiving surface oriented to open toward the clamping end of the clamping device, and a cutting insert mounted in contact with the receiving surface. The cutting insert has a plurality of cutting edges arranged around a periphery of a first face and a plurality of radially oriented features on a mating face in contact with the receiving surface. The receiving surface has corresponding features to that of the mating face of the cutting insert. A radius containing one of the plurality of radially oriented features forms an acute angle, an obtuse angle or a right angle to a radius containing a second of the plurality of radially oriented features.

Abstract: A cutting insert (20) for a machine tool comprising a flat blade formed from polycrystalline diamond material and having a front face (21) thereon formed from the PCD phase (23) with at least one cutting edge (22) thereon, and a rear face formed from the second phase substrate (24), the rear face having serrations (25) therein formed within the second phase substrate (24), preferably substantially normal to each cutting edge.

Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining includes a tool holder in order to releasably hold at least one cutting insert. The cutting insert is arranged to be fixable in an insert pocket of the tool holder by a locking screw. The locking screw has a head and is in threaded engagement with the tool holder via a threaded joint which is arranged to allow tilting of the locking screw in a working direction of the tool when the locking screw is partly unscrewed so that the cutting insert can be removed from the insert pocket. The head is arranged to clamp against a part of a front side of the cutting insert. The tool holder includes at least one space at least partly arranged to receive the head when the screw is partly unscrewed.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a top surface; a bottom surface; a plurality of clearance side surfaces extending between the top and bottom surfaces; a cutting edge formed at an intersection between the top surface and at least one of the plurality of clearance side surfaces; and a threaded hole extending from the bottom surface to a predetermined distance from the top surface. The threaded hole is capable of receiving an insert screw for mounting the cutting insert to a cutter body. A cutting tool for mounting the cutting insert to an insert-receiving pocket is also disclosed.

Abstract: A positioning device for chip removing tools, in particular turning tools of chip removing machines like turning and milling machines or similar, in tool holders, in particular collet holders, clamping holders and shrink holders, having a receiver for the tool holder, which comprises first positioning means, in particular an engagement- or index groove, wherein in the tool holder receiver second positioning means are provided, which predetermine the first angular position ? of the tool holder with reference to the tool holder receiver through engagement with the first positioning means, wherein the tool holder is aligned in the tool holder receiver with its longitudinal axis along a first axis, wherein a tool receiver is provided, which fixates the tool in a second annular position ? with respect to the tool receiver, wherein the tool is aligned with its longitudinal tool axis along a second axis and the tool receiver is moveable with respect to the tool holder receiver, so that the tool is insertable into th

Abstract: A tool holder for a resharpenable cutting tool insert has a body portion which includes a recess. A wedge member is positioned in the recess. A locking screw locks the wedge member such that the top surface of the wedge member is in engagement with the bottom surface of the insert and the locking screw is threadably connected to the body portion and to the wedge member so that the cutting tool insert may be removed for sharpening and re-inserted at the same location relative to the tool holder.

Abstract: An indexable cutting insert for beveling a pipe end, and having a first quadrilateral surface and a second quadrilateral surface in spaced, generally parallel relationship to each other separated by a non-parallel planar sidewall comprised of four side flank portions defined as a portion of the sidewall extending from one corner of the insert to an adjacent corner of the insert. The non-parallel sidewall and both the first and second surfaces define intersecting cutting edges. A related method is also disclosed.

Abstract: An expandable/compressible slot and/or opening may be formed by machining a tool holder body. The slot and/or opening may receive a tool and secure it therein utilizing the inner surface of the slot and/or opening. Adjustment members may be utilized for compressing and/or expanding the slot and/or opening to permit insertion and/or removal of the tool.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a tool body and a cutting insert releasably retained in a pocket of the tool body. The cutting insert has first and second rear insert abutment surfaces and a third forward insert abutment surface and the pocket has first and second rear pocket abutment surfaces and a third forward pocket abutment surface. The first and second abutment surfaces are separated from the third abutment surface by a bore. The third forward pocket abutment surface can be either a socket recessed in a pocket base surface or a protrusion protruding from the base surface; and the third forward insert abutment surface can be correspondingly either a protrusion protruding from an inner surface of the insert or a socket recessed in the inner surface.

Abstract: A cutting tooth is used on a brush cutter head. The cutting tooth includes a cutting portion having a first face and a second face. The first face and the second face cooperate to define a tapering profile terminating in a cutting edge. The first face of the cutting portion carries a plurality of ridges formed thereon to direct cutting debris away from the cutting edge and facilitate passage of the debris along the trailing face when the cutting tooth is in use.

Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining, including a basic body, and a cutting insert fixed in an insert seat in the basic body by a tightening element, and which, via at least one shoulder surface, is held pressed against a stop surface in the insert seat. An elastically deformable spring is arranged in the insert seat, which provides, by elastic deformation as a result of tightening of the tightening element, the pressing of the shoulder surface against the stop surface.

Abstract: A tool for chip removing machining, including a basic body and a replaceable cutting insert that has a center axis and is detachably mounted in an insert seat formed in the basic body. The seat is delimited by a bottom surface and at least one side support surface. The cutting insert includes an out of round engagement surface that is pressed against an out of round shoulder surface to rotationally secure the cutting insert. The shoulder surface is included in a separate lock member that is partially inserted in a space formed in the basic body, the space opening towards the insert seat and located between the side support surface and the bottom surface of the insert seat such that the lock member rotationally secures a lower part of the cutting insert, while an upper part of the cutting insert is supported by the side support surface.

Abstract: A cutting matrix has a top surface, a first cavity for tightening the cutting matrix in a cutting tool, and a cutting edge for cutting by stock removal. A second tightening cavity is arranged coaxially with respect to the first cavity. The first cavity is deeper than the second, and both are below the upper surface of the cutting matrix.