Abstract: A milling tool with a disk- or strip-shaped base body, which can be driven around an axis of rotation, and several cutting inserts arranged along the outer circumference of the base body on opposite sides from one another, wherein the cutting inserts, viewed in the axial direction, overlap one another. The invention also relates to a tangential cutting insert for a milling tool of the above-mentioned type, with two side surfaces, through which a fastening opening extends, and two face ends, wherein cutting edges are formed at the junction of the front faces to the side surfaces, wherein the fastening opening is positioned eccentrically.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multiple machining apparatus for, upon receiving a plastic cylindrical work piece therewithin, performing multiple machining operations thereon. The apparatus includes a rotary fixture capable of rotation; the rotary fixture includes a proximal means for snugly holding a proximal portion of the work piece, and a distal means for holding substantially the rest of the portion of the work piece. The apparatus further consists of a movable table with a blade holder for holding a plurality of blades, each of which corresponding to a machining operation, the movable table and thereby the blade holder is capable of movement along X, Y and Z axes. The apparatus performs multiple machining operations on the work piece by virtue of the rotation of the rotary fixture, rotation of the blades, and the movement of the movable table, working against the rotating work piece.

Abstract: An end mill includes end cutting edges located at a front end side of a cutting edge portion of a body including rotation axis, peripheral cutting edges, and helically extending flutes. Each of the peripheral cutting edges and the flutes are alternately located from the front end side to a rear end side, and a first distance between a deepest position of the flute and the rotation axis is equal among the respective flutes in a cross section taken along the rotation axis. The flute includes a first region located at a side of the peripheral cutting edge and includes the deepest position, a second region located at a side of a heel, and a boundary. A second distance from the rotation axis to the boundary located at the rear end side is larger than the second distance located at the front end side.

Abstract: A cutting insert including first cutting edges and second cutting edges respectively formed in a first end surface and a second end surface which are opposed to each other; at least one groove formed in a peripheral side surface which connects the first end surface and the second end surface; and, while one end of the groove reaches the first end surface, another end thereof reaches the second end surface, and an opening width in the first end surface is different from an opening width in the second end surface.

Abstract: A clearance angle, of a blade-like tool or tool tooth of a tool for hob peeling workpieces is determined by defining the rake face contour of the tool and calculating the progression of path movement of the rake face during chip-breaking hob peeling, taking into account a pre-determinable transmission ratio between the tool and the workpiece determined by the respective number of teeth, and the desired tooth cross-section contour of the tool, and determining a tangential speed for points of the cutting edge of the tool during chip-breaking, wherein hob peeling is determined in the form of vectors that are displayed graphically as bundles for each point on the cutting-edge and a closed envelope surface is determined, which plus a desired clearance angle is selected as the shape for the flank face contour of the tool or of the flank face of the tool tooth. A tool is also provided.

Abstract: Tool for machining a workpiece having a cutting insert with at least one cutting edge. Moreover, the tool has a tool holder, which extends along a holder longitudinal axis and has at a workpiece-side end a cutting insert receptacle for receiving the cutting insert, the cutting insert receptacle having an upper clamping finger and a lower clamping jaw. Furthermore, the tool has a wedge-shaped clamping element, which is fastenable in the cutting insert receptacle for wedging the cutting insert in the tool holder. In addition, the tool comprises a fastening element for fastening the clamping element in the cutting insert receptacle and for wedging the cutting insert in the tool holder.

Abstract: A cutting insert has: first sub cutting edges at positions corresponding to first corner portions of a polygonal top surface; second sub cutting edges at positions corresponding to second corner portions; and main cutting edges on side portions. In a side view, each of the main cutting edges has a first cutting edge adjacent to the first sub cutting edge, a second cutting edge adjacent to the second sub cutting edge, and a third cutting edge between the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge. Each of the main cutting edges inclines such that the height thereof decreases from a portion adjacent to the first sub cutting edge to a portion adjacent to the second sub cutting edge. An inclination angle of the third cutting edge is greater than inclination angles of the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge.

Abstract: A cutting insert including a surface involved in cutting, for which a cutting tool material of a hard sintered body is used. A radius of a nose R portion is 0.4 mm or greater and 2.4 mm or less, an apex angle ? of the nose R portion is 50° or greater and 95° or less, a rake angle ? at a position of a bisecting plane of the apex angle of the nose R portion is 1° or greater and 10° or less, a chamfer provided in a cutting edge portion is a negative land with unequal width, and at least on one side of the negative land with respect to a boundary which is an apex of a nose R portion cutting edge, a width of the negative land gradually decreases from the apex of the nose R portion cutting edge to a position at which the nose R portion cutting edge is connected to a linear cutting edge. Let W1 be the width of the negative land at the apex of the nose R portion cutting edge, and W2 be the width of the negative land at both ends of the nose R portion cutting edge, then the W1 is 0.04 mm or greater and 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool body provided with at least one insert seat. The insert seat includes a bottom wall surface and a side wall surface. The side wall surface includes a first side wall surface and a second side wall surface. The first side wall surface includes at least two surface portions. The first surface portion is a curved surface having a recessed shape recessed toward a base end of the tool body, and the second surface portion is a curved surface having a recessed shape recessed toward the base end of the tool body, with a greater curvature radius than that of the first surface portion, or a flat surface. The two surface portions both come into contact with a cutting insert.

Abstract: A device and associated system for threading, cutting, and reaming pipe ends are described. The device and system utilizes a brushless DC electric motor. The devices also include on-board electronics and operator interface(s) to provide sophisticated control and information as to the various operations. Also described are methods of operating the devices and several different modes for performing various operations.

Abstract: A steady rest (1) for centering a rotationally symmetrical workpiece (2) in relation to a longitudinal axis of a processing machine, having, two housing shells (4, 5) separated by a distance from one another and connected together, an actuating piston (7) mounted in an axially moving arrangement in the housing shells (4, 5) which acts on the workpiece (2), three steady rest arms (8, 9, 10) mounted to the two housing shells (4, 5) in a swiveling arrangement by a bearing pin, and configured to move in concert so as to clamp the workpiece, wherein the clamping forces actually occurring on the steady rest arms (8, 9, 10) can be registered reliably using a force measuring device (21) provided on at least one of the two steady rest arms (8, 9), and passed onto an evaluation device (22).

Abstract: A cutting insert of one aspect is provided with a top surface having a polygonal shape and including a corner portion, a first side and a second side, each extending from the corner portion, a bottom surface, a side surface, and a cutting edge. The cutting edge includes a corner cutting edge disposed in a position corresponding to the corner portion, and a first cutting edge disposed in a position corresponding to the first side. The top surface includes an inclined surface provided with a first inclined surface disposed along the first side, a second inclined surface disposed along the second side, and a third inclined surface disposed along the corner portion. An inclination angle of the first inclined surface is greater than an inclination angle of the second inclined surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool receptacle 1 comprising a receiving body 3, which has a receiving opening 5 for a tool shaft 6 of a tool and a first fluid supply structure 22, 33 and 35 for supplying fluid to the tool, said fluid supply structure extending through the receiving body 3. In order to allow a diversified supply of working fluids to the tool, a second fluid supply structure 23, 34 and 41, which is not connected with the first fluid supply structure 22, 33 and 35, extends through the receiving body 3, hereby allowing a fluid supply to the tool which is separate from the first fluid supply structure 22, 33 and 35.

Abstract: A machine tool capable of facilitating a process of mounting a fluid supplying unit to a spindle supporting unit is provided. The machine tool has a rotating unit including a spindle provided with a workpiece chucking unit, a supporting unit which rotatably supports the spindle around a spindle axis, and a fluid supplying unit removably mounted on a rear end of the supporting unit to allow fluid flow inside the spindle toward the chucking unit. The fluid supplying unit has an insert to be received in the rotating unit in the direction of the spindle axis. A labyrinth clearance is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the insert and the inner circumferential surface of the rotating unit when the fluid supplying unit is mounted on the rear end of the supporting unit. The labyrinth clearance allows rotation of the rotating unit and restricts leakage of the supplied fluid from inside the spindle when the rotating unit is rotated.

Abstract: A portable apparatus for configuring a wheel associated with a track is provided. The apparatus is in a fixed position with respect to a rail associated with the track when in operation. The apparatus includes a tool configured to engage the wheel, a position system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axis, and a computer control. The computer control is coupled to control the positioning system. The positioning system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile.

Abstract: A temporary part is mounted onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine. A diamond turning tip of the diamond turning machine is used to form a reference surface on the temporary part, registering a baseline for a motion control system of the diamond turning machine. While the temporary part remains mounted to the diamond turning machine, a workpiece is mounted onto the temporary part, and the diamond tip is controlled relative to the reference surface to diamond turn a surface profile on the workpiece. Because the baseline established by the reference surface compensates for positional variations from mounting parts directly onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine, the length of the workpiece can be shaped to a designated length with a high degree of accuracy.

Abstract: A cutting insert for metalworking operations is retained within a cutting insert holder by a resilient tab on the holder that engages a recess on the stem of the insert. The cutting insert and the holder may be fabricated using rapid prototyping techniques such as 3D printing.

Abstract: A machining device for machining the lateral surface of an approximately cylindrical object in portions thereof includes a chain for annularly surrounding the object to be machined. The chain consists of at least two hingedly connectable chain links, one of which is a tool holder having at least one tool for machining the lateral surface. The device also includes support rollers for rolling on the lateral surface. The at least one other chain link is a chain connecting link. The chain links are connectable in such a way that they form a closed chain ring around the object to be machined. The machining device further includes a feed adjuster capable of reversibly adjusting an axial position of facing ends of two chain links parallel to the axis of the closed chain ring relative to each other.

Abstract: An insert detachably attached to an indexable rotary cutting tool, having an upper surface having cutting edges along the ridgeline, a lower surface, side surfaces, and a center hole for a fastening screw; each cutting edge having a corner cutting edge formed in each acute corner portion, and a bottom cutting edge and a peripheral cutting edge formed along the ridgelines on both sides of the corner cutting edge; the bottom cutting edge and the peripheral cutting edge having different clearance angles; a flank of the corner cutting edge having an angle-changing surface portion having a clearance angle continuously changing in a region from the bottom cutting edge to the peripheral cutting edge; and the length of the peripheral cutting edge being restricted by a receding portion adjacent to an upper end of the peripheral cutting edge.

Abstract: A method for designing a cutting edge of a cutting element configured for removing material from a workpiece to leave therein a desired end profile (B22,B24,B26). The method comprises the steps of modeling a desired end profile (B22,B24,B26) of the workpiece, the profile having a longitudinal axis and being defined by a bottom surface (B12), a side surface (B16) and an adjustment surface (B14) extending therebetween; defining a lead profile plane (RPL) and an trail profile plane (RPT) spaced therefrom, each of the planes being oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis; determining a profile contour defined by the intersection line between the end profile (B22,B24,B26) and the lead profile plane (RPL).