Abstract: A tool body includes a damping apparatus having a damper mass body with an axial through bore and a central tube received in the through bore and surrounded by a cavity. An elastic element is arranged on each side of the damper mass body and provided with two socket-like portions extending axially through a central hole of two disc-like members clamping the elastic element therebetween. The socket-like portions project in a rest state of the elastic element extend axially beyond the respective axially directed side of the respective disc-like member and are in an assembled state of the tool body compressed for sealing the cavity with respect to the exterior.

Abstract: A friction rock bolt assembly is arranged to frictionally engage an internal surface of a bore formed in rock strata. The rock bolt includes an expander mechanism having at least two radially outer wedge elements engageable by an inner wedge element. The expander mechanism is configured for symmetrical displacement of the expander elements to provide controlled enlargement by the rock bolt within the borehole for secure anchorage.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes a top face and a bottom face parallel to the top face. Four side faces and four corner faces extend between the top and bottom faces. At least one cutting edge is formed at an intersection of the top face and at least one of the corner faces and two of the side faces connected to the corner face. The top face forms a rake surface, while an upper part of the corner face and the two side faces form a relief surface connected to the cutting edge. In order to reduce the cycle time for crank shaft milling, the cutting insert has two diagonally opposed corners including an acute angle between 70° and 85°. At least one of the acute angled corners including the corner face providing a corner cutting edge. A disc milling tool including such cutting inserts is also provided.

Abstract: A bore cutting tool for cutting metal workpieces includes a tool substrate and a tool coating on a surface of the tool substrate. The bore cutting tool includes a plurality of pits in the surface of the tool substrate and wherein the tool coating extends over the pits such that the pit surface includes the tool coating. In this way, the pit dimensions can be retained over prolonged tool life and the pits, with their coated surface, are particularly effective at retaining lubricant so that the thickness of a lubricant film can be increased as compared to a tool without the coated pits. In the embodiments, the pits are formed by laser etching and are present only on the cylindrical land. Average pit depth is suitably in the range 8 ?m to 25 ?m, average pit width and pit length is independently selected from 40 ?m to 250 ?m and average pit density may be 20 to 30 pits/mm2.

Abstract: A tool body includes a damping apparatus for damping vibrations in a machining tool having, besides the tool body, a member with at least one cutting edge to be secured to the tool body. The damping apparatus is arranged in an internal room of the tool body and includes a damper mass body with an axial bore and a central tube extending through the bore and which is rigidly secured to the damper mass body inside the through bore. A central tube is also at both ends thereof rigidly connected to a tool body fixed part and the central tube is made of a material with a spring property allowing the damper mass body to oscillate in the internal room perpendicularly to the longitudinal extension of the central tube.

Abstract: A screening assembly for screening material includes an assembly frame, a multi-deck screening device, a transfer conveyor and a drive means. The drive means is operable to shift at least one of the discharge ends of the screening device and the receiving end of the conveyor relative to the assembly frame to allow the transfer conveyor to selectively receive material from an upper screen and from both screens of the screening device at their respective discharge ends. A mobile material processing plant incorporating the screening assembly is included.

Abstract: A cutting tool having an elongate cutting head provided with a plurality of teeth and flutes in which a plurality of cooling grooves are recessed at a land region of each tooth between a cutting edge and a trailing edge. The grooves at the land do not extend to and are physically separated from the cutting edge to provide a tool optimized for cutting via radially consistent cutting edges and the promotion of heat exchange and dissipation from the rearward side/region of the teeth.

Abstract: A high temperature iron-chromium-aluminium (FeCrAl) alloy tube extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the tube is formed from a continuous strip of a high temperature FeCrAl alloy and comprises a helical welded seam. The high temperature FeCrAl alloy tube is manufactured by feeding a continuous strip of the high temperature FeCrAl alloy toward a tube shaping station, helically winding the strip such that long edges of the strip abut each other and a rotating tube moving forward in a direction parallel to its longitudinal axis is formed, and continuously joining said abutting long edges together in a welding process directly when the tube is formed, whereby a welded tube comprising a helical welded seam is obtained.

Abstract: A method for hole cutting in a workpiece made of CFRP with a cutting tool including at least one cutting edge is provided. Further, a hole cutting assisting apparatus and an apparatus for hole cutting includes a cutting tool, a drive for rotating the cutting tool, and a heating element configured for heating at least a portion of the cutting edge of the cutting tool.

Abstract: A high temperature iron-chromium-aluminium (FeCrAl) alloy tube extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the tube is formed from a continuous strip of a high temperature FeCrAl alloy and comprises a helical welded seam. The high temperature FeCrAl alloy tube is manufactured by feeding a continuous strip of the high temperature FeCrAl alloy toward a tube shaping station, helically winding the strip such that long edges of the strip abut each other and a rotating tube moving forward in a direction parallel to its longitudinal axis is formed, and continuously joining said abutting long edges together in a welding process directly when the tube is formed, whereby a welded tube comprising a helical welded seam is obtained.

Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating, wherein the coating has a PVD layer being a compound of the formula Ti1-xSixCaNbOc, wherein 0.10<x?0.30, 0?a?0.75, 0.25?b?1, 0?c?0.2, and a+b+c=1. The PVD layer is a NaCl structure solid solution. The disclosure further relates to a method for producing the PVD layer by cathodic arc evaporation using a pulsed bias voltage of from about ?40 to about ?450 V to the substrate and using a duty cycle of less than about 12% and a pulsed bias frequency of less than about 10 kHz.

Abstract: Screening media to screen oversized material includes a main body and a plurality of openings extending through the main body between an upward facing contact face and a downward facing bottom face. A textured pattern is provided at the contact face to provide a roughened surface for the partial entrapment of material fines. Such a configuration protects the screen media from aggressive contact with the material to be screened and provides a bedding layer that is maintained by material-on-material attrition during bulk material flow over the media.

Abstract: A turning tool for internal turning of a metal work piece having a rear end, an opposite forward end and a longitudinal center axis extending therebetween. The first nose cutting edge includes a first radially distal point having an associated first rake face and separates and connects a first forward cutting edge and a first rearward cutting edge. A second nose cutting edge of the turning tool includes a second radially distal point having an associated second rake face and separates and connects a second forward cutting edge and a second rearward cutting edge. The second radially distal point is positioned ahead of the first radially distal point. The first forward cutting edge forms an acute first entering angle, the second forward cutting edge forms an obtuse second back clearance angle, and the second rearward cutting edge forms an acute second entering angle.

Abstract: A method to form a surface on a metal work piece includes providing a turning insert that has a nose angle formed between first and second cutting edges less than or equal to 85°; providing a turning tool having a tool body with an insert seat in which the turning insert is mountable; arranging the orientation of the second cutting edge such that it forms a back clearance angle of more than 90° in a feed direction; rotating the metal work piece around a rotational axis in a first direction; moving the turning insert in a direction parallel to or at an angle less than 45° relative to the rotational axis; and setting the longitudinal axis of the tool body at an angle greater than zero but less than or equal to 90° relative to the rotational axis of the metal work piece.

Abstract: A tool body and at least one cassette for a milling tool. The tool body includes at least two identical insert seats, each insert seat being configured to support a cutting insert arranged to be mounted therein. At least one side contact surface is provided in each insert seat for supporting a bottom support surface and at least one side support surface of the cutting insert. The cassette has a peripheral side surface including at least one side support surface and at least one insert seat configured to support a cutting insert. The at least one side support surface and a bottom support surface of the cassette are configured to be supported by the at least one contact surface of any one of the insert seats of the tool body, the cassette being configured to be detachably mounted in any one of the identical insert seats of the tool body.

Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a multilayer of alternating sublayers of ?-Al2O3 and sublayers of TiN, TiC, TiCN, TiCO or TiCNO. The multilayer includes at least 3 sublayers of ?-Al2O3. The multilayer further exhibits an XRD diffraction over a ?-2? scan of 15°-140°, wherein the 0 0 2 diffraction peak (peak area) is the strongest peak originating from the ?-Al2O3 sublayers of the multilayer.

Abstract: A roof mesh installation apparatus for a mining machine includes a mesh roll carried at a dispenser at a forward position of the machine capable of unrolling mesh to be laid and bolted at a tunnel roof. A tensioning device positioned at the dispenser is capable of actuation so as to apply a pre-tension to a forward and unbolted section of mesh with the tension being applied against an already laid and rearward bolted mesh section. Accordingly, an automated roof mesh installation apparatus and method is provided.

Abstract: A turning insert includes a top surface, an opposite bottom surface and a reference plane located parallel to and between the top surface and the bottom surface. A nose portion has a convex nose cutting edge, a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge. The nose cutting edge connects the first and second cutting edges. The first and second cutting edges form a nose angle (?) of 71-85° relative to each other. The nose portion includes a third convex cutting edge adjacent to the first cutting edge and a fourth cutting edge adjacent to the third convex cutting edge. The fourth cutting edge forms an angle (?) of 10-30° relative to a bisector. The distance from at least a portion of the fourth cutting edge to the reference plane increases as the distance from the nose cutting edge increases.

Abstract: A lithography based method for the manufacture of diamond composite materials in which green bodies are prepared by a layer-by-layer construction with resulting green bodies de-bound and sintered to achieve a dense high hardness material.

Abstract: A process of producing an austenitic stainless steel tube comprises the steps of: a) producing an ingot or a continuous casted billet of the austenitic stainless steel, b) hot extruding the ingot or the billet obtained from step a) into a tube, c) cold rolling the tube obtained from step b) to a final dimension thereof. The outer diameter D of the cold rolled tube is 70-250 mm and the thickness t thereof is 6-25 mm, and the cold rolling step is performed such that the following formula is satisfied: (2.5×Rc+1.85×Rh?17.7×Q)=(Rp0.2target+49.3?1073×C?21Cr?7.17×Mo?833.3×N)±Z??(1) wherein Rp0.2target is targeted yield strength and is 750?Rp0.2target?1000 MPa, 30?Rc?75%, 50%?Rh?90%, 1?Q?3.6, and Z is 65.