Patents by Inventor Michael Glenn Morrison
Michael Glenn Morrison has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10010953Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pocket with a top wall, a bottom wall, a side wall and a rear wall. The cutting tool has an insert cartridge and a wedge clamp. The threaded member exerts a force vector in a radial direction when threaded into the wedge clamp to place the cutting tool in a locked condition, and the wedge clamp exerts a force vector into the body of the cutting tool radially inward of an adjacent pocket, thereby reducing deflection of the adjacent pocket when the cutting tool is placed in the locked condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Jeffrey Francis Kovac
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Patent number: 9387537Abstract: A wedge clamp includes a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall opposite the front wall, and a fluid port traversing from the front wall to the rear wall. The fluid port has a front opening and a rear opening to allow cooling fluid to pass therethrough. In one embodiment, the front opening is a rounded isosceles trapezoid in shape with a pair of parallel substantially planar side walls of different length and a pair of arcuate side walls connecting the pair of planar side walls. The rear opening has a greater surface area proximate the rear wall and a smaller surface area proximate the front opening, resulting in a funnel-shaped opening to cause an increase in velocity of the cooling fluid passing through the fluid port.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Brad Daniel Hoffer, Michael Glenn Morrison, Werner Bruno Penkert
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Publication number: 20150273589Abstract: A wedge clamp includes a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall opposite the front wall, and a fluid port traversing from the front wall to the rear wall. The fluid port has a front opening and a rear opening to allow cooling fluid to pass therethrough. In one embodiment, the front opening is a rounded isosceles trapezoid in shape with a pair of parallel substantially planar side walls of different length and a pair of arcuate side walls connecting the pair of planar side walls. The rear opening has a greater surface area proximate the rear wall and a smaller surface area proximate the front opening, resulting in a funnel-shaped opening to cause an increase in velocity of the cooling fluid passing through the fluid port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Brad Daniel Hoffer, Michael Glenn Morrison, Werner Bruno Penkert
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Publication number: 20150266112Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pocket with a top wall, a bottom wall, a side wall and a rear wall. The cutting tool has an insert cartridge and a wedge clamp. The threaded member exerts a force vector in a radial direction when threaded into the wedge clamp to place the cutting tool in a locked condition, and the wedge clamp exerts a force vector into the body of the cutting tool radially inward of an adjacent pocket, thereby reducing deflection of the adjacent pocket when the cutting tool is placed in the locked condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Jeffrey Francis Kovac
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Publication number: 20150196959Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pocket with a top wall, a bottom wall, a side wall and a rear wall. The cutting tool has a wedge clamping system that includes an insert cartridge and a clamp wedge. The insert cartridge includes a recess that interacts with a protrusion on the clamp wedge in such a way that the clamp wedge exerts a force vector in an axial direction when the clamp wedge is threaded into the pocket, thereby reducing deflection of an adjacent pocket of the cutting tool when the cutting tool is placed in a locked condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: July 16, 2015Applicant: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Jeffrey Francis Kovac
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Publication number: 20150125223Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pocket with a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall for engaging an insert cartridge, a second side wall, a first rear wall, and a second rear wall. The top wall and the bottom wall are formed at a negative angle with respect to each other to provide a closed pocket design that resists centrifugal forces when the insert cartridge and the clamp wedge are in a locked condition during a cutting operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Brad Daniel Hoffer, Jeffrey Francis Kovac
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Patent number: 8858126Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end. The forward end includes an insert-receiving pocket with a threaded hole having a center axis. The cutting tool further includes a cutting insert with a countersunk bore with a center axis. The cutting tool includes an error proofing feature for preventing the cutting insert to be properly mounted in an insert-receiving pocket when an offset distance between the center axis of the threaded hole of the insert-receiving pocket and the center axis of the countersunk bore of the cutting insert is greater than a predetermined percentage of the outer diameter of the threaded screw.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Srikanth Bontha, Juan Seculi, Thomas Jerry Long, II, Jeremy Joseph Verellen, Ravishankar Iyer
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Patent number: 8057131Abstract: A clamping tool holder includes a tool holder body and a clamp for clamping a cutting insert. The clamp causes the cutting insert to press against the bottom and the side walls of an insert-receiving pocket of the tool holder body. The tool holder body has an inclined surface sloping inward in a direction away from the insert-receiving pocket. The clamp has an inclined surface that acts as a ramp with the inclined surface of the tool holder body. When a clamp screw is tightened, a nub of the clamp engages only an inside rearward surface of a mounting bore of the insert along a line of contact and exerts a force downward and rearward on the insert. In addition, only a forward lower face of a head portion the clamp screw engages a top surface of the clamp.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2009Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Charles Lisle Conway, Michael Glenn Morrison, Lance David Brunetto
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Patent number: 7931425Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end. The forward end includes an insert-receiving pocket. The body further includes a coolant delivery system comprising a main coolant passage having a main coolant inlet extending from the rearward end toward the forward end, a primary coolant passage in fluid communication with the main coolant passage and having a primary coolant outlet exiting from the insert-receiving pocket, and a secondary coolant passage in fluid communication with the primary coolant passage and having a secondary coolant outlet exiting into the insert-receiving pocket. The primary coolant outlet intersects the secondary coolant outlet to form an outlet having a substantially non-circular shape. As a result, the coolant fluid exiting the outlet is in a fan-like pattern and is evenly distributed over the cutting edge of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Kennametal Inc.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Srikanth Bontha
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Publication number: 20110076106Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end. The forward end includes an insert-receiving pocket with a threaded hole having a center axis. The cutting tool further includes a cutting insert with a countersunk bore with a center axis. The cutting tool includes an error proofing feature for preventing the cutting insert to be properly mounted in an insert-receiving pocket when an offset distance between the center axis of the threaded hole of the insert-receiving pocket and the center axis of the countersunk bore of the cutting insert is greater than a predetermined percentage of the outer diameter of the threaded screw.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Srikanth Bontha, Juan Seculi, Thomas Jerry Long, II, Jeremy Joseph Verellen, Ravishankar Iyer
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Publication number: 20100239377Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a forward end and a rearward end. The forward end includes an insert-receiving pocket. The body further includes a coolant delivery system comprising a main coolant passage having a main coolant inlet extending from the rearward end toward the forward end, a primary coolant passage in fluid communication with the main coolant passage and having a primary coolant outlet exiting from the insert-receiving pocket, and a secondary coolant passage in fluid communication with the primary coolant passage and having a secondary coolant outlet exiting into the insert-receiving pocket. The primary coolant outlet intersects the secondary coolant outlet to form an outlet having a substantially non-circular shape. As a result, the coolant fluid exiting the outlet is in a fan-like pattern and is evenly distributed over the cutting edge of the insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Michael Glenn Morrison, Srikanth Bontha
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Publication number: 20100183385Abstract: A clamping tool holder includes a tool holder body and a clamp for clamping a cutting insert. The clamp causes the cutting insert to press against the bottom and the side walls of an insert-receiving pocket of the tool holder body. The tool holder body has an inclined surface sloping inward in a direction away from the insert-receiving pocket. The clamp has an inclined surface that acts as a ramp with the inclined surface of the tool holder body. When a clamp screw is tightened, a nub of the clamp engages only an inside rearward surface of a mounting bore of the insert along a line of contact and exerts a force downward and rearward on the insert. In addition, only a forward lower face of a head portion the clamp screw engages a top surface of the clamp.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Charles Lisle Conway, Michael Glenn Morrison, Lance David Brunetto