Abstract: A process for making a diamond coated cutting tool that comprises the steps of providing a sintered substrate, re-sintering the sintered substrate to form a re-sintered substrate, subjecting the re-sintered substrate to a chemical treatment to remove cobalt on the surface of the re-sintered substrate so as to form a treated substrate, and adherently depositing a diamond coating to the treated substrate.

Abstract: A coated cemented carbide tool, and a method for making the same, wherein the as-sintered substrate is formed by sintering in an atmosphere having at least a partial pressure and for a part of the time a nitrogen partial pressure.

Abstract: A chromium-containing coated cemented tungsten carbide cutting insert that has a substrate and a coating. The substrate comprises between about 5.7 and about 6.4 weight percent cobalt, between about 0.2 and about 0.8 weight percent chromium and the balance tungsten and carbon, and a coercive force of about 195 to 245 oersteds.

Abstract: A process for making a heat treated ground ceramic cutting tool and the resultant cutting tool. The process comprising the steps of: providing an uncoated ground ceramic cutting tool having at least a portion thereof ground; and heat treating the uncoated ground ceramic cutting tool so as to form the heat treated ground ceramic cutting tool.

Abstract: A cutting tool and method for machining hardened steel including a substrate of polycrystalline cubic boron nitride having one or more layers of a hard refractory coating containing aluminum. The coating may contain a titanium aluminum nitride layer applied by a physical vapor deposition (PVD). Alternatively, the coating may include a layer of aluminum oxide applied by chemical vapor deposition.

Abstract: A tool which includes a substrate which has a first surface and a second surface wherein the first surface ad the second surface intersect to form an edge. A adhesion coating scheme is on the substrate. The adhesion coating scheme comprises an innermost layer which contains titanium, and is on the surface of the substrate. The adhesion coating scheme includes an outermost adhesion layer. A wear coating scheme is on the adhesion coating scheme. The wear coating scheme includes one or more wear coating sequences wherein each wear coating sequence comprises an inner layer including aluminum and nitrogen and an outer layer including boron and nitrogen.

Abstract: A chromium-containing coated cemented tungsten carbide cutting insert that has a substrate and a coating. The substrate comprises between about 10.4 and about 12.7 weight percent cobalt, between about 0.2 and about 1.2 weight percent chromium.

Abstract: A coated cemented (binder alloy, e.g., cobalt-chromium alloy) tungsten carbide cutting insert that comprises a substrate and a coating. The substrate contains at least about 70 weight percent tungsten and carbon, between about 3 weight percent and about 12 weight percent cobalt, and at least 0.09 weight percent chromium. The substrate presents a surface zone of binder alloy enrichment that begins near (or at) and extends inwardly from a peripheral surface of the substrate. The coating includes a base layer that contains chromium.

Abstract: A coated body that has a substrate of tungsten, carbon, and cobalt, and wherein the substrate presents a surface. Eta phase is present at the surface of the substrate. Fibrous tungsten carbide grains are present at the surface of the substrate. The surface of the substrate has a surface roughness, Ra, of greater than about 12 microinches. A coating layer is on the surface of the substrate. A process for making a coated body comprising the steps of: providing a substrate comprising tungsten, carbide and cobalt, and the substrate having at least one surface with eta phase thereon; subjecting the substrate with eta phase on the surface thereof to a conversion treatment at a temperature between about 1250° C. and about 2000° C.

Abstract: A hard alloy material comprising tungsten carbide in an amount of 50 to 80 weight percent of the material, titanium carbide in an amount of at least about 10 weight percent, and a binder material of cobalt and nickel. Though tungsten carbide based, the thermal conductivity of the material of the invention is between 10 and 20 Watt/m° K. In other aspects of the invention, molybdenum and chromium are included to further lower the thermal conductivity of the material. In yet another aspect of the invention, one or more nitrides or carbonitrides of titanium and/or zirconium are included in the material.

Abstract: A continuous process for the manufacture of a ceramic sintered compact wherein the process comprises the steps of: forming a green compact from a powder mixture comprising a first component comprising compounds which contain elements of silicon, aluminum, oxygen and nitrogen; and the powder mixture further comprising a second component comprising a compound of at least one element selected from the group consisting of yttrium, scandium, cerium, lanthanum and the metals of the lanthanide series, and the second component comprising between 0.1 and 10 weight percent of the powder mixture; heat treating the green compact wherein the heat treatment comprises continuously passing the green compact through at least one heating zone so as to produce a sintered compact.

Abstract: An elongate support member such as a boring bar. The support member includes a body with an exterior surface and an exterior region adjacent to the exterior surface thereof. The body has an interior region remote from the exterior surface. The interior region is contiguous with the exterior region so as to define an interface therebetween. The interior region is of a first hardness, and a portion of the exterior region adjacent to the exterior surface is of a second hardness wherein the second hardness is greater than the first hardness.

Abstract: The invention relates to abrasive water jet systems comprising an abrasive water jet mixing tube having a longitudinal bore lined with a superhard material, including such systems which use cubic boron carbide (CBN), diamond, or other materials with a hardness greater than that of alumina as the abrasive material. The invention also comprises methods of using an AWJ system having a mixing tube having a longitudinal bore lined with a superhard material. Some embodiments include AWJ mixing tubes comprised of a plurality of connected components. Such connections may be disconnectable.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a central cavity with a plurality of pairs of clamping surfaces wherein the clamping surfaces of a pair are separated from one another by a recess to provide split face clamping surfaces within the cavity of the insert. The insert may be secured within the pocket of a toolholder.

Abstract: A hard member for use as a wear part or a hard insert for a point attack style of tool or a rotary style of tool. The hard member having a composition of between about 5 volume percent and about 40 volume percent binder alloy, and between about 60 volume percent and about 95 volume percent tungsten carbide. The tungsten carbide has an average grain size between about 1 micrometer and about 30 micrometers. The binder alloy comprises an alloy of nickel and chromium wherein the nickel ranges between about 70 weight percent and less than 93 weight percent and the chromium ranges between greater than 7 weight percent and about 30 weight percent.

Abstract: A drill steel-chuck assembly which includes a drill steel which has a plurality of faces and opposite ends. The drill steel has one portion adjacent one of the opposite ends thereof and a mediate portion spaced apart from the one portion. The drill steel further has one transition portion between the one portion and the mediate portion so as to join the one portion and the mediate portion. The one portion of the drill steel presents a first orientation of the faces. The mediate portion of the drill steel presents a second orientation of the faces. The one transition portion of the drill steel presents a twisted orientation of the faces comprising a generally constant twist of the faces from the first orientation of the one portion to the second orientation of the mediate portion. There is a chuck for attachment to the drill steel through engagement with the transition portion of the drill steel.

Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond member and a method for making the same. The member includes a backing and a layer of polycrystalline diamond on the backing wherein the layer of polycrystalline diamond has a rake surface and a flank surface. The layer of polycrystalline diamond has an interior region adjacent to the backing and an exterior region adjacent to the interior region wherein the exterior region terminates at the rake surface. The interior region includes interior diamond particles and a catalyst with the interior diamond particles being bridged together so as to form interstices therebetween. The catalyst is at the interstices of the interior diamond particles. The exterior region includes exterior diamond particles bridged together so as to form interstices therebetween with the exterior region being essentially free of the catalyst. A chemical vapor deposition-applied hard material essentially surrounds the exterior diamond particles.

Abstract: A rotatable cutting bit for penetrating an earth formation wherein the rotatable cutting bit includes an elongate bit body having a forward end and a rearward end. The bit body further defines a peripheral surface. The bit body has a first cutting insert affixed thereto at the axially forward end thereof. The first cutting insert has a first leading cutting edge and a first side clearance cutting edge. The first cutting insert is attached to the bit body so that the first side clearance cutting edge radially extends past the peripheral surface of the bit body so as to engage the earth formation.

Abstract: A drill used for dry drilling, characterized by the asymmetry of those cutting edge parts only whose faces are in the drill core area, in particular its entire chisel edge. This asymmetry can result from the fact that the individual chisel edges have different lengths.

Abstract: A process for making a diamond-coated tool and the tool made thereby. The process includes a sintering step. In that step, the tool substrate is sintered in an atmosphere and for a time and at a temperature so that superficial, exaggerated grain growth is promoted that imparts a surface roughness which may serve as anchoring sites during a subsequent diamond coating step which is performed by a vapor deposition technique. The diamond-coated tool prepared by the process includes a large grain substrate surface, and an high bond strength between the diamond coating and the substrate surface.