Abstract: An adjusting device 17 for fine adjustment of a cutting support 14, which is adjustable on a basic body 12 of a cutting tool 10, relative to the basic body 12, with an adjusting screw 63 which determines the position of the cutting support 14 relative to the basic body 12. The adjusting device 17 comprises a threaded bushing 61 with which the set screw 63 is screwed and which has a wall segment 66 which is elastically deformable transversely to the socket axis 70, and a pressure element 64 arranged laterally of the threaded bushing 61 which presses the wall segment 66 against the set screw 63.

Abstract: A drilling tool with improved structure to improve chips discharging performance. The drilling tool comprises a cutting insert 60 having a cutting edge 62 at the front end portion and a main body 10 mounted with the cutting insert 60, further, the drilling tool comprises a hollow discharge channel 12 formed inside the main body 10, and the discharge channel 12 has a curved surface 14 for guiding the chips S in a direction towards the base end portion opposite to the front end portion.

Abstract: Methods for measuring long-term thermal resistance of closed-cell foam. The methods include: (a) placing a stack of slices cut from a sample of the foam between two isothermal plates in a calibrated heat flow meter comprising a heat flux transducer; (b) measuring an initial thermal resistance of the same stack of slices at a plurality of preselected mean temperatures within the temperature range of 10° F. to 150° F. wherein the stack of foam slices stays inside the heat flow meter throughout step (b); (c) at a time calculated to represent a selected aging period of the foam, placing the same stack of slices between two isothermal plates in a calibrated heat flow meter and measuring the thermal resistance of the stack of slices at a plurality of preselected mean temperatures within the temperature range of 10° F. to 150° F.

Abstract: A cutting insert which is suitable for high cutting speed, a tool body thereof and a tool are provided. A tool according to the present invention is a tool in which a leading end thereof is provided with a force transmitting portion and for which a rotational axis extending from the leading end to a base end thereof is defined, wherein the tool comprises a cam portion which is arranged closer to the base end than the force transmitting portion and for which a dimension from the rotational axis of the tool varies in accordance with an angle at which the cam portion is rotated around the rotational axis.

Abstract: A drive device is provided to include: a case; a first motor and a second motor having an output shaft extending along a first axial line in the case and a second axial line parallel to the first axial line in the case, respectively; a first output shaft including a first shaft body and roller followers, the roller followers being engaged at a predetermined reduction gear ratio with the rib of the first motor; a second output shaft including a second shaft body and roller followers, the roller followers being engaged at a predetermined reduction gear ratio with the rib of the second motor; a first sealing member located between the case and the outer peripheral surface of the first shaft body; and a second sealing member located between an inner peripheral surface of the first shaft body and an outer peripheral surface of the second shaft body.

Abstract: A cutter assembly for a boring bar may include a cutter body, a cutter-element carrier, and an adjustment assembly having an adjustment element. The cutter-element carrier may be configured to be slidingly received in a channel in the cutter-body. The cutter-element carrier may have a first surface transverse to the first line. The adjustment element may have a second surface defining a position of the cutter-element carrier in the channel when the second surface is in contact with the first surface. The adjustment element may be movable along a second line transverse to the first surface for adjusting the position of the cutter-element carrier in the channel. The cutter body may include first and second recess portions. First and second insert portions may be inserted into the first and second recess portions, respectively, and may define float travel-limits for the cutter body.

Abstract: A boring head includes a housing having a first end configured to be coupled to a machine tool and a second end positioned opposite from the first end with the housing defining a central passageway. The boring head also includes a diameter adjustment mechanism comprising a sliding holder received by the housing and movable relative to the housing with the sliding holder configured to be coupled to a cutting insert and a balancing mechanism having a balancing mass. The balancing mechanism is configured to move the balancing mass when the sliding holder is moved. The balancing mass is aligned with the sliding holder in a direction extending about perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the housing.

Abstract: A hole cutter assembly is operable to cut a plurality of different sized diameter holes in a work piece. The hole cutter assembly includes an arbor configured to connect to a power tool for rotation about an axis, and a body coupled to the arbor for rotation with the arbor. The body defines an aperture. The hole cutter assembly includes a drill bit removably received in the aperture of the body for rotation with the arbor, an arm moveably coupled to the body, and a cutting blade coupled to the arm and moveable with the arm relative to the body. The arm is moveable relative to the body to adjust a cutting diameter of the hole cutter assembly when the drill bit is not received within the aperture. The arm is fixed relative to the body when the drill bit is received within the aperture.

Abstract: A tool head for use in machine tools, has a main body which can be rotated around an axis of rotation. The tool head has a slide. The slide can be moved by means of a pull rod axially oriented in the main body. The slide can be fitted with at least one tool or one tool holder. At least one adjustable toothed plate is fixedly arranged on the slide. The toothed plate has a helical gearing functioning as a gear means for engaging with a helical gearing of the pull rod which is complementary thereto. The slide has an adjustment unit for moving the at least one toothed plate and the helical gearing thereof into the complementary helical gearing of the pull rod.

Abstract: At a contact step in a tool radius adjusting method, a reference portion of a movable body provided radially movably on a housing of a boring tool and a position adjusting reference member fixed on a machine tool are brought into contact by sliding the movable body relative to the housing so that the position of a cutting blade comes to a predetermined position in a direction to go away from a rotational axis. Then, at an adjusting step, the position of the cutting blade relative to the rotational axis is adjusted by changing the relative position between a tool spindle holding the boring tool and the position adjusting reference member in a direction to come close to each other by drive mechanisms of the machine tool used for positioning a spindle head with the tool spindle relative to a workpiece in machining the workpiece with the cutting blade.

Abstract: Milling cutter and method of operating same, and other machine tools, and an adjustment mechanism therefor. A cutting insert is adjusted by moving a resilient web with an adjusting screw.

Abstract: A reaming tool includes a main tool body disposed about a rotational axis, a plurality of peripherally arranged cutting inserts coupled to the tool body, and a fine adjustment mechanism associated with each cutting insert. The adjustment mechanism includes an adjusting screw with a conical section that acts on the cutting insert for fine adjustment, the conical section being arranged between a first and a second cylindrical guide section. The two guide sections ensure high-precision guidance of the adjusting screw.

Abstract: The invention relates to a regulating element for a cutting member clamped in a tool seat of a cutting tool, comprising a cylindrical basic body, and an active surface impacting the cutting member at a face side when in a mounted state, having a contour deviating from the cylindrical shape at the cylinder sleeve of the basic body as anti-twist protection for the regulating element.

Abstract: A boring holder in a tool radius adjusting system is provided with a cutting blade and fine and coarse motion adjusting mechanisms each capable of adjusting the position of the cutting blade relative to a rotational axis of the boring holder. The tool radius adjusting system is provided with a tool radius measuring device for measuring the tool radius of the boring holder and a controller configured to calculate a compensation amount based on a tool radius measured by the tool radius measuring device and a target tool radius and to operate the fine and coarse motion adjusting mechanisms based on the compensation amount so that the tool radius is brought into agreement with the target tool radius.

Abstract: A sheet hole punching device has a device frame bearing-supporting a plurality of punching members, a driving rotation shaft, a drive motor, a gear mechanism transmitting a rotation of the driving rotation shaft, cam mechanisms converting the rotational movement into vertical movement, and a motor control device. The gearing mechanism includes drive gears fixed on the driving rotation shaft and receiving gears to engage with the drive gears to transmit the rotational movement to the punching members. The cam mechanism includes cylindrical cams formed integrally to the punching members and cam followers fixed to the device frame. The cylindrical cams are provided with V-shaped groove cams to reciprocate the punching members between an upper dead point and a lower dead point. The punching members are rotated in one direction to punch holes in a sheet, and subsequently rotated in a reverse direction to punch holes in a following sheet.

Abstract: A sheet hole punching device has a device frame; a plurality of punching members arranged in first and second groups, and arranged linearly on the device frame; a driving rotation shaft; a driving motor reciprocally rotating the driving rotation shaft; a gear mechanism transmitting a rotation of the driving rotation shaft; cam mechanisms converting the rotational movement; and a motor control device. The gearing mechanism includes drive gears disposed on the drive rotational shaft, and receiving gears disposed on the punching members to engage with the drive gears. The cam mechanisms include cam followers and cylindrical cams. The cylindrical cam has a V-shaped groove cam to reciprocate each of the punching members between an upper dead point and a lower dead point. The punching members are rotated in one direction to punch holes in first sheets, and subsequently rotated in a reverse direction to punch holes in following sheets.

Abstract: In order to ensure highly precise setting, in particular readjustment of the radial position of the blade in the case of a rotary tool, in particular a reamer, an adjustment element, in particular in the form of an adjustment screw, having a cone formed by the screw head is inserted into an end-side receptacle in a cutting section, said cone being provided with a friction-reducing coating.

Abstract: An improved dual blade boring tool having a solid surround housing portion in which a pair of parallel spaced transverse channel openings extend perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rotatable tool, a pair of dual cutter insert members are mounted in the channel openings, respectively, and are moved in opposite directions to each other responsive to rack and pinion movements of a rotatable cylindrical shaped cam member having at least a rack portion and being meshed to engage pinion portions provided on each of the dual insert members, whereby the rotation of the rack portion of the cam member converts to reciprocating movement of each of the meshed insert members to move oppositely disposed insert members in opposite and corresponding linear directions with respect to the surround housing of the boring tool.

Abstract: Tool and method for generating microstructures within cylindrical surfaces with a higher degree of efficiency, thereby allowing to provide cylindrical surfaces with a corresponding microstructure in much shorter cycle time. Cutting elements of the tool are arranged within seats to be radially displaceable in said seats during rotation of said tool body. The cutting elements are radially displaceable at least between two different radial positions, namely a radially retracted and a radially extended position. The cutting elements can be evenly distributed about the circumference of the tool at the same radial distance such that the tips of the cutting teeth and also the seats define a common cylindrical envelope surface the axis of which coincides with the axis of the tool body.

Abstract: An insert attached to a tool body of a hole machining tool having an attachment seat and a pressing member for pressing the insert to adjust the position of a peripheral cutting edge in a diameter direction of the tool. The insert has a panel shape. One surface of the insert in a thickness direction provides a seating surface, the other surface in the thickness direction provides a peripheral flank surface. A surface facing the rear side of the insert in a tool rotation direction provides a pressed surface in a state that the insert is attached to the attachment seat. A side surface facing the front side in the tool rotation direction provides an inclined surface, and a peripheral cutting edge is formed at a ridge portion outside of the inclined surface in the diameter direction of the tool.

Abstract: A cartridge assembly for use on a boring bar includes: a main body having an internal thread disposed about an axis; a tubular shaft movable with respect to the main body along the axis, the shaft having an internal thread and a portion structured to receive a cutting mechanism; a torque-receiving assembly having a first and second threaded parts, the first threaded part cooperatively engaging the internal thread of the shaft, the second threaded part cooperatively engaging the internal thread of the main body; and an entrainment cover coupled to the torque-receiving assembly and rotatable with respect to the main body about the axis. The entrainment cover interacts with the main body in a manner that produces an indicating click upon rotation thereof, each click being indicative of a distance the shaft is displaced in regard to the main body as a result of the rotation of the entrainment cover.

Abstract: A rotary cutting tool for reaming operations, including a generally cylindrically shaped tool shank with a longitudinal axis having a plurality of radially protruding and generally axially extending clamping wings, and a cylindrically shaped cutting head having a central bore and a plurality of axially extending cutting edges with an outer cutting diameter. The central bore has a plurality of circumferentially and alternately spaced bore sectors and bore recesses, where each bore sector has an outwardly inclined female clamping surface in clamping contact with an outwardly inclined male clamping surface of each clamping wing. A cylindrical shaped locking sleeve and a cylindrical shaped clamping nut assembled to the tool shank provide a means to adjust the clamping contact forces and the cutting diameter of the cutting head, and also enable removal and replacement of the cutting head without removal of the locking sleeve and clamping nut.

Abstract: A mechanical-activated inner diameter (ID) grooving tool includes a shank, a body, a stopper, an insert cartridge, a bushing and an end cap. The shank includes a tapered piston having an extension surface and a retraction surface. The insert cartridge includes a tapered piston pocket having a piston-engaging face and a piston-retracting face. Axial movement of the tapered piston in a first direction causes the extension surface of the tapered piston into contact with the piston-engaging face of the insert cartridge, thereby causing the insert cartridge to move in a radially outward direction. Axial movement of the tapered piston in a second, opposite direction causes the retraction surface of the tapered piston into contact with the piston-retracting face of the insert cartridge, thereby causing the insert cartridge to move in a radially inward direction.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a shank with a circumferential groove and an adjustment ring releasably secured to the shank at the groove. The adjustment ring has a threaded through bore in which a screw is screw mounted and engages the groove. The adjustment ring has an adjustment member which engages the groove and which is positioned diametrically opposite the threaded through bore. When the screw is tightened it exert a purely radially directed force on the groove thereby inducing displacement of the adjustment member radially inwardly and the adjustment member exerts non-radially directed forces on the groove, thereby inducing a bending moment on the shank for correction of radial runout.

Abstract: An expanding tool comprising: an outer cone for radially expanding a portion of a cutting head, wherein the portion has a cutting edge for machining a workpiece. Furthermore, the description shows a rotatable cutting tool for machining a workpiece, wherein the cutting tool comprises: a cutting head with a recess, wherein the recess has a portion which is formed as an inner cone.

Abstract: A sheet hole-punching device includes a plurality of punch members, a base frame for slidably supporting the punch members in a hole-punching direction and rotationally supporting the punch members, and a drive member having a plurality of cam portions. Each punch member has a leading end with a hole-punching blade. Each cam portion engages each punch member to move the punch member in the hole-punching direction. A plurality of cam devices is also formed in the sheet hole-punching device. Each cam device is disposed between the base frame and each punch member for converting a hole-punching direction movement of the punch member into a rotational movement so as to rotate the punch member while moving in the hole-punching direction.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a shank with a circumferential groove and an adjustment ring releasably secured to the shank at the groove. The adjustment ring has a threaded through bore in which a screw is screw mounted and engages the groove. The adjustment ring has an adjustment member which engages the groove and which is positioned diametrically opposite the threaded through bore. When the screw is tightened it exert a purely radially directed force on the groove thereby inducing displacement of the adjustment member radially inwardly and the adjustment member exerts non-radially directed forces on the groove, thereby inducing a bending moment on the shank for correction of radial runout.

Abstract: A tool head includes a working slide which can be adjusted relative to a basic body, and an electric adjusting motor which acts on the working slide via gears. The motor includes a stator and a rotor which runs round in the stator, bears an output shaft and is mounted in two pivot bearings arranged at a distance from one another, wherein one of the pivot bearings is arranged with an outer ring in a basic body-mounted stator housing and with an inner ring directly or indirectly on the output shaft.

Abstract: An expandable reamer includes a shank portion, a cutting portion extending from the shank portion, and a tapered pin capable of being at least partially received in the cutting portion. The cutting portion includes a plurality of blades separated by flutes, and a tapered inner surface with threads. The tapered pin includes a tapered outer surface with threads and causes expansion or contraction of the cutting portion when the tapered pin is screwed or unscrewed into the cutting portion. In one embodiment, a coolant channel extends from a coolant cavity through a wall of the cutting portion to provide fluid to the blades during machining of through-holes. In another embodiment, the tapered pin includes a coolant passage in fluid communication with the coolant cavity to provide fluid to the blades during machining of blind holes.

Abstract: The main body (12) of a machine tool (10) comprises a plate seat (18) having a plate element (16) arranged thereon. The plate element (16) has at least one plate edge (38), which protrudes freely to the outside over the plate seat (18) and rests against a bottom support surface of the plate seat (18). The plate element (16) can be fixed to the plate seat (18) by way of a bolt (20) extending through a bore hole in the plate element (16). A first brace (22) for the plate element (16) is provided on the plate seat (18), said brace having a support surface (34) against which the plate element (16) rests non-positively with a lateral plate surface. A further brace (24) is designed on the plate seat (18) for a lateral plate surface of the plate element (16) to rest against non-positively.

Abstract: A tool head (10) for a rotating tool (2) includes a basic body (8), an annular portion (12) arranged on an end face on the basic body (8) and surrounds a cavity (22), and an adjusting device (18) including an adjusting screw (32) with a shank (34) and an adjusting sleeve (20). The shank (34) having a first shank portion (36) engaging a threaded bore (44) in the basic body (8). The adjusting sleeve (20) is displaceable by the adjusting screw (32) and has a conical outer face (30) that interacts with an inner face (28) of the annular portion (12) in such a way that, when the adjusting screw (32) is being screwed into the threaded bore (44), the annular portion (12) is spread open by the adjusting sleeve (20).

Abstract: The invention relates to a base body for a drilling tool, in particular to drilling/grinding tool whose front surface (14) can accommodate a cutting insert holder (2). Said invention also relates to a cutting insert holder used with said base body (1) provided with a seat for receiving a cutting insert (13, 13?, 13?). The aim of the invention is to develop a flexibly usable drilling tool whose cutting insert holder can be adjusted in a simple and accurate manner and is not expensive. For this purpose, at least one adjusting pin (4) which is connected to the base body (1) axially overlaps the cutting insert holder (2) and/or the cutting insert in such a way that a radial adjustment of the cutting insert holder (2) with respect to the base body (1) can be carried out by measuring the radial deviation (a) between the defined point of the cutting insert holder (2) or a cutting insert (3, 3?, 3?) accommodated thereby and the adjusting pin (4).

Abstract: A recess and an attachment seat are formed in a front end of a tool body. A panel-shaped insert attached to the attachment seat where the thickness direction is matched with the diameter direction of the tool body and a surface of the insert facing the rear in a tool rotation direction becomes a pressed surface. A peripheral cutting edge is formed at a ridge of an inclined surface on the outside in the diameter direction of the tool body, a bevel edge is formed at a ridge on the front side of the tool body, and a back taper is attached to the peripheral cutting edge. A pressing member for pressing the pressed surface of the insert to adjust a position of the peripheral cutting edge in the diameter direction of the tool body is disposed on the rear side of the attachment seat in the tool rotation direction.

Abstract: A combination tool and method for metal-cutting machining of a drill-hole and its hole surface as well as cutting insert for such a combination tool.

Abstract: Milling cutter and method of operating same, and other machine tools, and an adjustment mechanism therefor. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

Abstract: A sheet hole-punching device includes a punch member having a leading end with a hole-punching blade, a base frame for movably supporting the punch member in a hole-punching direction, a drive motor for driving the punch member, and a transmission device for transmitting rotational force of the drive motor to the punch member so as to rotate the punch member. The transmission device is disposed between the drive motor and the punch member. A cam device is disposed between the base frame and punch member, and converts a rotational movement of the punch member into a hole-punching direction movement so as to move the punch member in the hole-punching direction while rotating the punch member.

Abstract: A rotary cutting tool for reaming operations, including a generally cylindrically shaped tool shank with a longitudinal axis having a plurality of radially protruding and generally axially extending clamping wings, and a cylindrically shaped cutting head having a central bore and a plurality of axially extending cutting edges with an outer cutting diameter. The central bore has a plurality of circumferentially and alternately spaced bore sectors and bore recesses, where each bore sector has an outwardly inclined female clamping surface in clamping contact with an outwardly inclined male clamping surface of each clamping wing. A cylindrical shaped locking sleeve and a cylindrical shaped clamping nut assembled to the tool shank provide a means to adjust the clamping contact forces and the cutting diameter of the cutting head, and also enable removal and replacement of the cutting head without removal of the locking sleeve and clamping nut.

Abstract: The invention proposes a reamer having a base (3), at least one cutting tip (13) disposed essentially parallel to a face (11) of the reamer (1) that comprises a geometrically defined major cutting edge (27) and a geometrically defined minor cutting edge (29) and is held on a contact surface (19) of the base (3) of the reamer (1) by a tightening screw (39) penetrating the cutting tip (13), with a back (17) of the cutting tip (13) resting on the contact surface (19), having an adjustment unit having an adjustment screw acting on the cutting tip (13) that introduces adjustment forces into a lateral surface of the cutting tip (13).

Abstract: A micro-adjustable differential screw assembly for providing fine adjustment of the axial and/or radial position of a cutting insert is disclosed. The micro-adjustable differential screw assembly can be mounted directly to a boring bar or to a mounting cartridge, which in turn, can be mounted to the boring bar. An axial micro-adjustable differential screw assembly provides fine adjustment of an axial position of the cutting insert, while a radial micro-adjustable differential screw assembly provides fine adjustment of a radial position of the cutting insert. The differential screw assembly includes a rotatable drive screw with threads of different thread pitches, and a non-rotatable adjusting screw with threads for mating with the drive screw.

Abstract: A tool head includes a working slide which can be adjusted relative to a basic body, and an electric adjusting motor which acts on the working slide via gears. The motor includes a stator and a rotor which runs round in the stator, bears an output shaft and is mounted in two pivot bearings arranged at a distance from one another, wherein one of the pivot bearings is arranged with an outer ring in a basic body-mounted stator housing and with an inner ring directly or indirectly on the output shaft. The stator housing includes a sleeve which engages and is fixed to the stator for rotation and displacement, and a bearing cover which closes off the sleeve on the gear side and bears the outer ring of the first pivot bearing. The second pivot bearing is arranged in a separate centring ring fastened inside the stator.

Abstract: A quick-change tool holder has an enlarged forward end, a rearwardly extending shank, and an axial bore extending through the enlarged forward end and the shank with the bore having a diameter sized to receive the shank of a cutting tool. A second hole extends into the side surface of the enlarged forward end intersecting the axial bore. The shank of a tool of the type received in the axial bore is inserted into the second hole and the cutting end of the tool is hit with a hammer to remove the tool from a base block mounting.

Abstract: A tool for countersinking, deburring and spindling out holes is described, consisting of a blade holder driven rotationally about its longitudinal axis, in which, at an angle to its longitudinal axis, at least one recess is arranged, in which one or more cutting blades or their holders are held as exchangeably and/or displaceably load-transmitting. In order to guarantee better protection against tilting and breaking of the cutting blade out of the recess in the blade holder it is provided that the recess is formed from radii substantially blending into one another.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to install an anchor bolt with sufficient strength without lowering strength even when a reinforcing member exists. According to the present invention, in a method of installing an anchor bolt in a fixing surface, first, a first fixing hole for fixing the anchor bolt is drilled in the fixing surface. Then, a second fixing hole is drilled from a distal end portion of the first fixing hole in an inclined state. Afterward, an anchor bolt bent at a middle portion thereof is fixed to the first fixing hole and the second fixing hole.

Abstract: The boring tool having a basic body (2) in which a tool bit (27) is arranged which has a cutting edge (29) at a front end (27b). The basic body (2) has an opening (3) in which the tool bit (27) is pivotably mounted. Setting means (7) serve to set the pivoted position of the tool bit (27) relative to the basic body (2). Means (16) serve to fix the tool bit (27) in the set pivoted position. The tool bit (27) is pivotable about a pivot point (P) which is essentially neutral in terms of unbalance. The tool bit (27) is preferably connected at a rear end (27a) to a radially adjustable slide (7). The slide (7) can be finely adjusted radially, for example with a micrometer screw (9).

Abstract: A micro-adjustable differential screw assembly for providing fine adjustment of the axial and/or radial position of a cutting insert is disclosed. The micro-adjustable differential screw assembly can be mounted directly to a boring bar or to a mounting cartridge, which in turn, can be mounted to the boring bar. An axial micro-adjustable differential screw assembly provides fine adjustment of an axial position of the cutting insert, while a radial micro-adjustable differential screw assembly provides fine adjustment of a radial position of the cutting insert. The differential screw assembly includes a rotatable drive screw with threads of different thread pitches, and a non-rotatable adjusting screw with threads for mating with the drive screw.

Abstract: A cutting tool with a cutting insert and a pivotable screw and nut combination for holding the cutting insert. The cutting tool also has a feed mechanism to adjust the position of at least one cutting edge of the cutting insert in the cutting tool.

Abstract: A tool holder is equipped with a tip run-out correction mechanism for correcting run-out of the tip of the tool. The tip run-out correction mechanism includes an annular stepped portion formed on a cylindrical support portion of a holder body; a ring member rotatably fitted onto the annular stepped portion; an eccentric cam disposed within the ring member, the eccentric cam extending radially through the ring member and being rotatable about a radially extending axis; and a pin disposed within the ring member to be movable along a direction parallel to the center axis of a flange portion of the holder body. One end of the pin is in contact with the eccentric cam, and the other end of the pin is in contact with a rear end face of a clamp sleeve which clamps a tool inserted into a chuck sleeve of the holder body.

Abstract: A metal cutting tool is provided with at least one cutting insert mounted in an insert pocket in communication with an adjusting mechanism, the cutting insert comprising at least one insert adjusting slot extending between two opposing major faces thereof and opening out to each major face at an adjusting aperture and the adjusting mechanism comprising at least one adjusting member having an adjusting member top face underlying the cutting insert while being visible and accessible therethrough.

Abstract: A machine tool has a rotatable tool holder formed with an outwardly open seat having an outwardly directed floor and a cartridge engaged in the seat, carrying a cutting insert, and formed with an inwardly open groove defining a groove axis and having a surface confronting and extending at a small acute angle to the seat floor. An adjustment wedge axially shiftable in the groove has a formation extending transversely of the axis and bears radially outward on the groove surface and radially inward on the seat floor so that axial shifting of the adjustment wedge radially shifts the cartridge in the groove. An eccentric pin set in the cartridge engages the formation of the adjustment wedge for axially shifting the adjustment wedge in the groove and thereby radially displacing the cartridge in the seat on rotation of the pin.

Abstract: A rotationally driven cutting tool for machining of workpieces, in which at least one cutting insert is fastened detachably in a pocket of a blade bearer so that it is clamped flatly against a base surface of the pocket. For adjustment of the blade there is a cutting insert and a fine adjustment device with which, with the aid of an adjusting screw arrangement, an adjusting element supported on a lateral wall of the cutting insert can be adjusted relative to the cutting insert. The adjusting screw arrangement comprises a threaded sleeve that is held, preferably with play, in a smooth through opening having a narrow point and comprises a screw part in functional engagement therewith that stands in a chain of pressure force with the adjusting element.