Abstract: A disposable tip clamp mechanism capable of simplifying the mounting operation of a disposable cutting tip to produce an improved effect for preventing the dislocation of the tip is described. A screw member 36 having a screw hole 36a in the head 36c thereof is connected with the mounting screw hole 33 of a tip mounting seat 32, with the head portion 36c projecting from the tip mounting seat 32 and a disposable tip 37 is seated on the tip mounting seat 32 such that the engaging portion 37f thereof engages the head portion 36c of the screw hole-containing screw member 36.

Abstract: The invention is designed to improve a cutting performance and a spiral chip discharging ability. Main cutting edges 16 and auxiliary cutting edges 18 are formed along the respective sides of an upper surface 14 of a negative throw-away tip 12 and along side of bevelled corners, respectively. A rake face 22 of each main cutting edge 16 is gradually inclined toward a lower surface of the tip 12 by an angle of inclination .beta. along the extension of the main cutting edge 16 away from its adjacent auxiliary cutting edge 18 and by a rake angle .alpha. (>.beta.) along a direction perpendicular to the main cutting edge 16. The tip 12 is mounted on a cutter 9 as a rotatable cutting tool so as to discharge spiral chips during cutting. To this end, the tip 12 is mounted such that an axial rake angle, a corner angle, an angle of inclination, and a true rake angle are set in a range of -4.degree. to -10.degree., a range of 25.degree. to 60.degree., a range of 0.degree. or larger, and a range of -20.degree. to -5.

Abstract: A cutting insert having a generally polygonal tabular form, includes a main cutting edge formed along at least one of the ridges or edges of the upper and lower surfaces which oppose each other in the direction of the thickness of the tabular form, and a face connected to the main cutting edge is formed on the flank or flanks which surround and define the upper and lower surfaces. The face includes a convex curved surface and an angle of intersection between the convex curved surface and one of the upper and lower surfaces progressively changes. The angle of intersection between the convex curved surface and one of the upper and lower surfaces progressively increases or decreases along the length of the face from the face end adjacent to a free end of the tool to a face end adjacent to the base end of the tool. In a preferred embodiment, a flat surface is disposed on each side of the convex curved surface and each flat surface intersects one of the upper and lower surfaces at a constant angle.

Abstract: A cutting insert wherein cutting edges are formed on a pair of ridge portions of an upper surface and a pair of ridge portions on a lower surface in a staggered position relative to the ridge portions of the upper surface in a direction along the peripheries of the upper and lower surfaces. Rakes are formed on side surfaces of the insert body connecting to the cutting edges. Each rake has an inclination such as to be closer to a center of the upper or lower surface at a position remoter from the corresponding cutting edge. Each rake is formed of a curved surface which is formed along the side connecting to the cutting edge and which is curved along the peripheral direction so as to round out in an outward direction from the insert body, and a flat surface which obtusely intersects the curved surface and connect to a ridge portion opposite from the cutting edge formed along on the side of the rake.

Abstract: A cutting insert wherein cutting edges are formed on a pair of ridge portions of an upper surface and a pair of ridge portions on a lower surface in a staggered position relative to the ridge portions of the upper surface in a direction along the peripheries of the upper and lower surfaces. Rakes are formed on side surfaces of the insert body connecting to the cutting edges. Each rake has an inclination such as to be closer to a center of the upper or lower surface at a position remoter from the corresponding cutting edge. Each rake is formed of a curved surface which is formed along the side connecting to the cutting edge and which is curved along the peripheral direction so as to round out in an outward direction from the insert body, and a flat surface which obtusely intersects the curved surface and connect to a ridge portion opposite from the cutting edge formed along on the side of the rake.

Abstract: A cutting tool is disclosed which includes a tool body having a mounting portion to be secured to a machine tool and having a plurality of insert receiving recesses formed therein. A plurality of cutting inserts are releasably attached to the insert receiving recesses, respectively. The tool body has a nitrided hard layer formed on a surface thereof. Furthermore, a clamp member used in the tool preferably has an abutment surface to be held in abutting contact with the insert or other parts and a chip-contacting surface with which cutting chips produced during cutting operation are brought into contact. The chip-contacting surface is defined by a nitriding hard layer formed on a precision-cast unglazed surface, and has a surface which is left without finish-working. Furthermore, a method for producing a cutting tool which includes a tapped hole formed therein and having an inner surface defining an unnitrided portion is disclosed. In this method, a plug is first threaded into the tapped hole.

Abstract: A cutting insert has a polygonal plate-like insert body defined by a front face, a back face, and a plurality of side faces lying between the front and back faces. A nose portion is defined by one of the corners of the front face. At least one cutting edge extends immediately from the nose portion. The cutting edge is defined by one of a pair of intersections of the front face with an adjacent pair of side faces sandwiching the nose portion therebetween. The front face includes an inclined surface sloping toward the back face in a direction away from the nose portion, causing each of the pair of intersections to incline toward the back face in a direction away from the nose portion. A breaker is formed on the inclined surface along the intersection of the inclined surface with a side face. The breaker has an inner surface for defining a rake surface portion more positively inclined to the corresponding cutting edge than that defined by the other area of the front face.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting insert. The cutting insert has a polygonal tabular body having a main cutting edge and a sub-cutting edge. A rake surface connected to the main cutting edge and the sub-cutting edge is composed of a plurality of consecutive component surfaces so as to present a multi-face surface which is curved and convex along the circumference of the body. The consecutive component surfaces are demarcated from adjacent component surfaces by edges lines L.sub.1, L.sub.2 which at their one end reach the main cutting edge. The intersection angles at which the component surfaces intersect the end surface connected to the main cutting edge are so varied in a stepped manner that the intersection angle of the component surface most remote from the nose portion is the smallest. The third component surface is curved along the circumference of the body so as to be convex outward, so that the portion of the main cutting edge associated with this component surface is also curved to be convex outward.

Abstract: A cutting tool is disclosed which includes a tool body having a mounting portion to be secured to a machine tool and having a plurality of insert receiving recesses formed therein. A plurality of cutting inserts are releasably attached to the insert receiving recesses, respectively. The tool body has a nitrided hard layer formed on a surface thereof. Furthermore, a clamp member used in the tool preferably has an abutment surface to be held in abutting contact with the insert or other parts and a chip-contacting surface with which cutting chips produced during cutting operation are brought into contact. The chip-contacting surface is defined by a nitriding hard layer formed on a precision-cast unglazed surface, and has a surface which is left without finish-working. Furthermore, a method for producing a cutting tool which includes a tapped hole formed therein and having an inner surface defining an unnitrided portion is disclosed. In this method, a plug is first threaded into the tapped hole.

Abstract: A cutting insert is disclosed which includes a polygonal plate-shaped insert body having two opposite faces directed in the direction of insert thickness and a plurality of peripheral faces lying between the opposite faces. The opposite faces have marginal edges with at least one of the marginal edges defining a main cutting edge. The peripheral faces intersect one another to form marginal edges with one of the marginal edges defining an auxiliary cutting edge which intersects the main cutting edge. The peripheral surface which includes the marginal edges defining the main and auxiliary cutting edges includes a rake region extending along the main and auxiliary cutting edge.

Abstract: According to a first embodiment of the present invention, an insert of a multilateral-shaped configuration comprising a rake face adjoining a major cutting edge has the rake face formed so as to comprise a plurality of laterally disposed rake face elements disposed substantially along the major cutting edge and intersecting with each other. The adjoining laterally disposed rake face elements form a ridge which has a convex cross-section and extends to each corresponding major cutting edge. The laterally disposed rake face elements are formed so that the plane angle of each of the laterally disposed rake face elements of one of the rake faces having one of the major faces adjoining the major cutting edge is different from the corresponding plane angle of the other laterally disposed rake face elements of the rake face.

Abstract: A cutting tool is disclosed which includes a tool body having a mounting portion to be secured to a machine tool and having a plurality of insert receiving recesses formed therein. A plurality of cutting inserts are releasably attached to the insert receiving recesses, respectively. The tool body has a nitrided hard layer formed on a surface thereof. Furthermore, a clamp member used in the tool preferably has an abutment surface to be held in abutting contact with the insert or other parts and a chip-contacting surface with which cutting chips produced during cutting operation are brought into contact. The chip-contacting surface is defined by a nitriding hard layer formed on a precision-cast unglazed surface, and has a surface which is left without finish-working. Furthermore, a method for producing a cutting tool which includes a tapped hole formed therein and having an inner surface defining an unnitrided portion is disclosed. In this method, a plug is first threaded into the tapped hole.

Abstract: A throughaway milling cutter is disclosed: a cutter body rotatable about an axis; at least one recess formed at a front face of the cutter body and having a bottom wall and side walls; an inclined face formed at the bottom wall and inclined about the front face; a cartridge inserted in the recess movably along the inclination direction of the inclined face; a wiper cutting insert removably mounted to the cartridge and having a wiper cutting edge generally parallel to a plan perpendicular to the axis of the cutter body and a front flank face disposed adjacent to the wiper cutting edge; a wedge inserted between the side wall and the cartridge and capable of moving the cartridge along the inclination direction of the inclined face; and a means for clamping the cartridge to the recess.

Abstract: A throwaway insert having a generally quadrilateral-shaped flat plate configuration is disclosed that includes first and second major faces disposed parallel and opposite to each other; oppositely facing first and second side faces extending between the first major face and the second major face; remaining oppositely facing third and fourth side faces extending between the first major face and the second major face; major cutting edges, one each constituted along each of the intersections of the first and second major faces with the first and second side faces minor flanks, one each constituted along the intersections of each of the first and second major faces with the third and fourth side faces, the minor flanks extending between a pair of oppositely formed intersections of the first major face with the first and second side faces, and between a pair of the oppositely formed intersections of the second major face with the first and second side faces, where the intersection constitutes the major cutting edg

Abstract: A cutting tool is disclosed which has a tool body, a cutting insert and an insert-holding member. The tool body has a recess formed therein, and the cutting insert is received in the recess. The insert-holding member is attached to releasably secure the cutting insert to the recess. The insert-holding member includes a surface layer having a thickness of 0.1 to 1.0 mm and an interior portion. The surface layer is harder than the interior portion and has a hardness of from H.sub.R C 40 to 60.

Abstract: A cutting tool is disclosed which includes a tool body having a plurality of mounting recesses formed on an end thereof. Each of the mounting recesses has a mounting face respectively formed at the bottom thereof. The mounting face has a first threaded hole formed therein. A plurality of inserts are each respectively disposed on the mounting face and secured pressed onto the mounting face by means of a clamping screw screwed into the first threaded hole. The cutting tool is characterized in having a plurality of reduced hardness regions respectively formed under the mounting face inside the tool body, each of the reduced hardness regions having the first threaded hole formed therein, the reduced hardness regions having a hardness lower than the hardness of the tool body.

Abstract: There is disclosed an insert cutter which includes a tool body having a plurality of mounting recesses formed in an outer peripheral surface thereof and a plurality of cutter inserts each releasably secured to a respective one of the mounting recesses and a plurality of pressing members each received in a respective one of the holes. Each of the mounting recesses defines an abutment face facing axially forwardly of the tool body. The tool body has a plurality of holes formed in the outer peripheral surface thereof and extending radially inwardly thereof. Each of the holes has an inner wall and is displaced rearwardly of the tool body from a respective one of the mounting recesses. Each of the cutter inserts has a face held in contact with the abutment face of a respective one of the mounting recesses. Each pressing member is pressed against the inner wall of the hole, whereby that portion of the tool body between the hole and the mounting recess is elastically deformed.

Abstract: In a rotary cutting tool for use with at least one cutting insert, a cutter body is rotatable about a rotational axis. The cutting insert is mounted to an outer periphery of a forward end of the cutter body. A chip moving unit is arranged outwardly of an outer peripheral surface of the cutter body for moving chips generated by the cutting insert, to a desirable location. A cover assembly is provided for covering the outer peripheral surface of the cutter body, having a flow passageway defined between an inner peripheral surface of the cover assembly and the outer peripheral surface of the cutter body. An air sending assembly is arranged within the flow passageway for sending air adjacent the cutting insert, toward the desirable location during rotation of the cutter body about the rotational axis.

Abstract: An inserted cutting tool includes a tool body, a plurality of cutting inserts, a plurality of wedge members and a plurality of clamp screws. The body includes a plurality of pockets formed therein, and each pocket includes a recess for receiving the insert. Each wedge member has a hole formed therethrough and has a first abutment surface disposed in abutment with a front face of the insert and at least one second abutment surface disposed in abutment with the body. Each clamp screw passes through the hole of a respective one of the wedge members and threaded into the body so that the tightening of the clamp screw causes the wedge member to wedge the insert against the body. The first abutment surface of each wedge member is inclined with respect to an axis of the hole in such a manner that a wedge angle defined therebetween ranges from about 30.degree. to about 50.degree..