Abstract: An end-mill comprising a shank and a cutting portion along its longitudinal axis, and formed by combining ceramic and metal based materials via a brazing method. The cutting portion includes a cutting diameter varying between 2 to 20 mm, at least one web thickness found at a blade part, at least one helix angle having a cutting edge thereon, a core diameter that is at least 0.7 times the cutting diameter, at least one corner radius found at the tip part of the blades between the flutes, and axial and radial rake angles at which a cutting operation is made. TiAlN coating is applied over the ceramic-metal based end-mill by a PVD method in order to extend the service life of the end-mill, increase abrasion resistance, and minimize the welding (sticking) problem of chips on the cutting tools.

Abstract: A cutting body rotatable about a tool axis has an insert receiving pocket with a seat surface at an axial forward end thereof. The seat surface has a plurality of abutment elements, including an axial abutment element having an axially forward facing abutment surface and at least one radial abutment element. In a top view of the insert receiving pocket, the axially forward facing abutment surface forms an external acute clamping angle with a radially outward facing pocket wall. A rotary cutting tool includes the cutting body, and a cutting insert removably secured in the insert receiving pocket, having a base surface in contact with the seat surface. The at least one radial abutment element occupies or is occupied by at least one radial abutting element of the base surface, and the axially forward facing abutment surface is in contact with an axial abutting surface of the base surface.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface, and a cutting edge. The upper surface includes a first side part, a second side part, and a corner part located between the first side part and the second side part. The side surface is located between the upper surface and the lower surface. The cutting edge is located at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The cutting edge includes a first cutting edge located at the corner part, and a second cutting edge adjacent to the first cutting edge and located at the first side part. A height of the first cutting edge relative to the lower surface is constant. The second cutting edge is inclined toward the lower surface as going toward the corner part.

Abstract: A cutting tool shim is to be disposed between a cutting insert and a holder and to be fixed to the holder. The ridgeline between the flank face and the rake face forms a cutting edge. The cutting edge includes an arc-shaped portion. A coolant supply path for jetting coolant to the arc-shaped portion is provided in the cutting tool shim, the coolant being supplied from the holder. The coolant supply path includes a lead-in port for leading the coolant from the holder to the coolant supply path, and a jetting port for arc-shaped portion for jetting the coolant to the arc-shaped portion. The jetting port for arc-shaped portion has a curved shape along the arc-shaped portion. The distance between the jetting port for arc-shaped portion and the arc-shaped portion is not less than 2.2 mm and not more than 8.1 mm.

Abstract: A cutting tool according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a cutting edge portion which contains at least one of cubic boron nitride and polycrystalline diamond. The cutting edge portion includes a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge. The flank face is contiguous to the rake face. The cutting edge is provided as a ridge line between the rake face and the flank face. The radius of curvature of the cutting edge is 2 ?m or more and 8 ?m or less.

Abstract: A cutter head for a woodworking machine, having a cylindrical, conical, or profiled base body which comprises at least two tool holders for holding a cutting insert. The tool holders each comprise a groove which is open in the radial direction, in which a cutting insert is clamped between a first groove wall of the groove and a one- or two-piece clamping element. The cutter head of can include a support plate arranged between the cutting insert and the first groove wall. The clamping screws are arranged at right angles to the axis and are thus accessible for a cutter change. The screw holder on the clamping element is a ball socket, and the front end of the screw is a round head. The cutter head of has a spring element, which positions the cutting insert during the clamping process, and presses the same via the functional surface radially outward against a stop.

Abstract: An insert based on an aspect includes a first face, a second face located opposite to the first face, a third face located between the first face and the second face, and a cutting edge located on an intersection of the first face and the third face. The first face includes a first region inclined so as be close to the second face as being separated away from the cutting edge. A virtual straight line orthogonal to the cutting edge is set as a first virtual straight line in a front view of the first face. A ten-point average of roughness the first region in a direction along the first virtual straight line is expressed by Rz1a and a ten-point average of roughness of the first region in a direction along the cutting edge is expressed by Rz1b, and Rz1a is larger than Rz1b.

Abstract: A spindle apparatus for use at a machine tool, in particular a lathe, has: a spindle assembly including a workpiece spindle to receive an elongated workpiece and a spindle motor for driving spindle rotation; and a rotary guide-bush assembly axially arranged with the workpiece spindle, the rotary guide-bush assembly including a rotary guide-bush to receive the elongated workpiece and supported at the rotary guide-bush assembly to rotate with the elongated workpiece received in the workpiece spindle about the axis while enabling a movement of the elongated workpiece in the axial direction. The spindle and rotary guide-bush assemblies connect to each other by a torque transferring connection, between the spindle and rotary guide-bush assemblies along the axis to transfer driving torque during acceleration or deceleration of the spindle rotation driven by the spindle motor to the rotary guide-bush of the rotary guide-bush assembly.

Abstract: A pipe rotator assembly includes a frame upon which a cylindrical pipe is supportable, and a wheel rotatably coupled to the frame and engageable with the pipe for imparting rotation thereto in response to rotation of the wheel. The pipe rotator assembly additionally includes a drive shaft coupled to the wheel for transferring torque thereto, causing the wheel to rotate, and a drive unit for providing torque to the drive shaft. The drive unit includes an electric motor and an onboard power source for powering the motor.

Abstract: A cutting insert based on a non-limiting aspect has a first member and a second member joined to the first member. The second member has an upper surface and a side surface adjacent to the upper surface. The upper surface includes a first side, a second side and a corner. The upper surface has a first convex portion extending toward the corner, and a second convex portion extending from the first convex portion toward the first side. The second convex portion has a first end portion and a second end portion located closer to the corner than the first end portion. A first length from the first end to the first side is less than a second length from the second end portion to the first side in a top view.

Abstract: A set of cutting inserts includes a stem portion, a plurality of branch portions attached to and extending from the stem portion, and at least one cutting insert attached to each of the plurality of branch portions. The stem portion has a longitudinal axis extending between a top end of the stem portion and a bottom end of the stem portion and at least one of the top end of the stem portion is disposed along the longitudinal axis above uppermost portions of each cutting insert, and the bottom end of the stem portion is disposed along the longitudinal axis below lowermost portions of each cutting insert. Also, methods for manufacturing a set of cutting inserts are disclosed.

Abstract: A device for the precise angular positioning of tool-holders includes a front part, a rear part, and a plug cooperating with a pair of pins arranged orthogonally relative to the plug. A first portion of the plug is inserted in a blind hole formed in the front part and a second portion of the plug is inserted in a corresponding blind hole formed in a front area defining a plate on the rear part of the tool-holder. The plate of the rear part has an upper surface in which a pair of bored holes is formed having equal diameters and depths. The bored holes extend vertically in the plate and orthogonally relative to the plug. A pin is rotatably inserted in each of the pair of bored holes to selectively rotate the plug in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction to orientate the front part relative to the rear part.

Abstract: In an end mill body made of ceramic, a corner R rake face is formed in such a manner as to contain a point B and at least a region B, not a region A located on a side toward an end cutting edge. In other words, a first end portion of a cutting edge on a peripheral edge portion of the corner R rake face is formed on a peripheral edge of the region B of a corner R cutting edge, and a second end portion of the cutting edge reaches at least the point B. As a result, partial breakage of the corner R cutting edge is unlikely to occur in the course of cutting. That is, since the corner R rake face is formed in such a manner as to start from the first end portion located apart from a point A, which is the intersection of the end cutting edge and the corner R cutting edge, and such that the second end portion reaches the point B, a large cutting load is unlikely to be imposed on the starting point of the corner R rake face. Therefore, the corner R cutting edge is unlikely to be chipped.

Abstract: A cutting tool for performing cutting of a relatively rotating external workpiece while relatively feeding the same in a specified direction is configured to have: cutting sections that have a tool edge, a base section, which is provided as one piece with or separate from the cutting sections and is for holding the cutting sections, a chip-guiding wall, which starts near a tool edge, is formed on the outer circumferential surface of the base section so as to extend in the direction moving away from the tool edge, and is for interfering with chips from the external workpiece and guiding the chips in a direction away from the tool edge. Provided thereby is a cutting tool capable of smoothly discharging chips during cutting.

Abstract: A tool for machining a groove of a rotation-symmetric component, preferably a piston of an internal combustion engine, is provided. The machining is carried out by a rotation of the tool around an axis of symmetry of the rotation-symmetric component to be machined. The tool includes at least one arm disposed in such a way that a circumference of the rotation-symmetric component can at least be partially enclosed. Also, a machining device for machining of the groove is provided on the at least one arm. At least one adjusting device is provided to adjust a contact force of the at least one machining device on the rotation-symmetric component, and to adapt the tool to different diameters of the rotation-symmetric component.

Abstract: In a spindle device, a cover member covers a surface of a flange portion on the front side of the spindle shaft, the flange portion projecting radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the spindle housing, and the outer peripheral surface of the spindle housing extending from the surface of the flange portion toward the front of the spindle shaft. In the cover member, a flow path for allowing a coolant to flow therethrough is formed.

Abstract: A cutting tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate and a diamond layer coating the substrate. A cutting tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a rake face, a flank contiguous to the rake face, and a cutting edge configured by a ridge formed by the rake face and the flank. The rake face has a first rake face and a second rake face located between the first rake face and the flank. The second rake face and a surface of the substrate located on the side of the rake face form a negative angle. The second rake face is formed at the diamond layer.

Abstract: A tangential cutting insert for a turning tool is described, which comprises a first tangential cutting insert side and a second tangential cutting insert side, wherein one of the tangential cutting insert sides is assigned more than two cutting edges, and the cutting edges are arranged in a star shape about a tangential cutting insert center axis. The tangential cutting insert is produced completely from cubic crystalline boron nitride, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride, polycrystalline diamond, or ceramic. In addition, a cutting tool with such a tangential cutting insert is presented. A method for producing a tangential cutting insert is also explained.

Abstract: Pipe machining apparatuses and methods of operating are provided. In one aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes an advancement mechanism coupled to a frame and adapted to move relative to the frame between a first position, in which the advancement mechanism is in a travel path of an advancement member and is adapted to be engaged by the advancement member to advance a tool, and a second position, in which the advancement mechanism is positioned out of the travel path of the advancement member and is not adapted to be engaged by the advancement member. In another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes multiple motors and pinion gears engaged with a gear rack of a tool carrier. In a further aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race wiper. In yet another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race lubrication member.

Abstract: A cutting tool assembly includes a parting blade and a blade holder for holding same. The cutting tool assembly is configured for conveying pressurized coolant via the holder to a cutting portion of the parting blade. The blade holder includes a deceleration chamber configured for reducing the impact of the pressurized coolant against the parting blade.