Abstract: An indexable double-negative cutting insert includes an index axis A, two opposing end surfaces, a peripheral side surface which extends therebetween, and opposing side cutting edges formed between the end surfaces and the peripheral side surface. A median plane P is located midway between the end surfaces, passes through the peripheral side surface and is perpendicular to the index axis. The peripheral side surface includes at least one protrusion which extends in an outward direction relative to the index axis, in a plan view of either end surface. The protrusion includes two side abutment surfaces which converge in the outward direction towards the median plane P. In each cross-section perpendicular to the median plane, which cross-section passes through both opposing side cutting edges and also the at least one protrusion, no portion of the peripheral surface is inward of an imaginary line connecting the opposing side cutting edges.

Abstract: A tool holder has a body portion and a holding portion, the holding portion having a base jaw and a clamping jaw, with an insert receiving pocket therebetween extending in a forward to rearward direction, and a first slot extending generally rearwardly from the insert receiving pocket. The base jaw has a support surface, and the clamping jaw has upper and lower arms separated by a second slot and extending in the generally forward direction. The lower arm has a forward end and an under surface facing towards the support surface, the under surface having a clamping portion adjacent the forward end. The upper arm has a bore which opens out to the second slot at a location rearward of the clamping portion. The bore can accommodate a force application member which can contact and displace the lower arm towards the base jaw to clamp a cutting insert.

Abstract: A clamping member for reliably inserting a protrusion portion thereof into a mounting hole of a cutting insert so as to engage the protrusion portion with an inner peripheral surface of the cutting insert and strongly clamp the cutting insert on a tool holder. The clamping member includes a body having a top surface engageable with a head of a clamping bolt, a bottom surface facing the tool holder and a bolt hole for insertion of the clamping bolt, and a protrusion portion protruding from the bottom surface and being engageable with a mounting hole formed in the cutting insert. The protrusion portion has an inclined surface facing toward a rotational direction about a center axis of the clamping bolt, the inclined surface is inclined so that the protrusion portion is gradually tapered from a base side thereof proximate the bottom surface toward an end side thereof distal from the bottom surface.

Abstract: A cutting tool assembly includes a cutting tool and an indexable cutting insert having an insert index axis. The cutting insert includes parallel insert first and second sides connected by an insert peripheral surface that extends peripherally around the cutting insert. At least one clamping hole opens out to one or both of the insert first and second sides, and at least a portion of the clamping hole is in a clamping region of the cutting insert. The insert peripheral surface includes cutting edges that are spaced-apart and extend from the insert first side to the insert second side. Along a width direction, which is perpendicular to the insert first and second sides, each of the cutting edges is wider than the cutting insert, at least at the cutting region of the cutting insert.

Abstract: A tool holder has a main body having a holder head extending away from a holder shank in a forward direction, a clamping member non-threadingly retained in the holder head, and a locking member operatively engaging a single abutment surface of the clamping member. The holder head has an insert receiving pocket at a forward end thereof with a pocket support surface substantially facing in an upward direction, and the clamping member is located entirely rearward of the pocket support surface with the abutment surface facing generally upwardly. The tool holder is configured to direct a clamping force towards, and clamp a cutting insert against, the pocket support surface.

Abstract: A metal cutting tool having an insert holder and a cutting insert releasably secured therein. The insert holder has upper and lower blocks and upper and lower jaws, each jaw projects from the front end of each respective block. The cutting tool has a cutting portion support projecting transversely from the front end of the lower clamp at an angle ?. The cutting insert has a shaft and a first cutting portion projecting transversely from the shaft at the angle ?. The cutting insert has non-planar abutment surfaces formed to mate with corresponding, non-planar support surfaces located on the lower and upper jaws and on the cutting portion support.

Abstract: In a head member (30) for a cutting tool with detachable insert (70) including a head member body (31) formed with an insert attachment seat (36) to which a cutting insert (50) having cutting blades (52) is detachably attached, and constituting the cutting tool with detachable insert (70) by being mounted to a tip portion of a holder (10), a side surface (31A) of the head member body (31) is formed with a recess (44) which has a continuous inner wall surface therearound and a bottom surface connected to the inner wall surface over its whole periphery and which is recessed from the side surface (31A) without passing though the head member body (31). According to this head member (30), generation of chatter vibration can be suppressed even if the amount of protrusion is increased, and the cutting heat of a cutting insert can be efficiently radiated.

Abstract: A tool holder as a carrier tool for a cutting tool for turning, milling or drilling applications for the machining of primarily metal materials, having an incorporated receiving recess with seat walls for receiving a cutting body, wherein the cutting body is fastened with fastening means.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert and a tool holder. The tool holder includes: a base for supporting a bottom surface of the cutting insert; a clamping arm for pressing a top surface of the cutting insert; an insert receiving space formed between the bottom surface of the clamping arm and the base; and a supporting surface which defines an end of the insert receiving space and supports an end of the cutting insert. The cutting insert includes: a first pressing region on the front portion of the top surface which is oriented in a vertically upward direction; and a second pressing region on the rear portion of the top surface which is oriented at an angle in the front direction.

Abstract: A metal cutting tool has a supporting tool, which has a recess for accommodating a cutting plate. The cutting plate is provided with a clamping trough, which is held in the supporting tool by a clamping claw. The clamping claw is fixed against the supporting tool by a clamping screw. A pressure piece is placed on the clamping claw and its underside facing the cutting plate is provided with a cam, which is in contact with the clamping trough and the clamping claw pulls the pressure piece toward the clamping screw.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert releasably retained in an insert pocket. The insert pocket includes a supporting portion having support surfaces and a clamping portion including a socket having a socket wall, the socket extending rearwardly from the supporting portion. The cutting insert has a cutting portion with front abutment surfaces and an elongated locating portion extending rearwardly from the cutting portion. The cutting insert is retained in the insert pocket with the front abutment surfaces abutting the support surfaces and with the locating portion located in the socket with abutment surfaces of the locating portion in abutment with the socket wall.

Abstract: A cutting tool holder includes a pressing member with a pressing part and an inserting part, a holder body, a head member including a first fixing section which is divided into a first front end region and a first rear end region, and has a first fixing hole for inserting the inserting part of the pressing member and a contact part pressed by the pressing part of the pressing member, at a portion of a first surface close to the first front end region in reference to the first rear end region; and a second fixing section divided into a second front end region and a second rear end region in which the first rear end region of the first fixing section and the second rear end region are connected to each other so that a fixing space extending from the second rear end region to the second front end region is located between the second fixing section and a second surface different from the first surface in the first fixing section.

Abstract: The detachable insert-type cutting tool is provided with a holder, a head member which has an insert seat on which a cutting insert is detachably mounted and which is detachably attached to a head portion of the holder so that an attachment surface of the head member is closely in contact with an attachment surface of the holder, a coolant hole which is formed inside the holder so as to be opened on the attachment surface of the holder, and a first groove which is formed on the attachment surface of the head member, communicating with the coolant hole opened on the attachment surface of the holder and extending so as to be opened toward a cutting edge of the cutting insert mounted on the insert seat.

Abstract: A metal cutting tool has a supporting tool, which has a recess for accommodating a cutting plate. The cutting plate is provided with a clamping trough, which is held in the supporting tool by a clamping claw. The clamping claw is fixed against the supporting tool by a clamping screw. A pressure piece is placed on the clamping claw and its underside facing the cutting plate is provided with a cam, which is in contact with the clamping trough and the clamping claw pulls the pressure piece toward the clamping screw.

Abstract: A screw connection to be undone without problems and without disproportionate application of force after long-term use in cutting under extreme usage conditions with dirt, extreme heat, moisture, oxidation and alternating loads provides that the screws have a smooth surface due to coating at least in the area of the thread of the screws, that PTFE particles, preferably have a particle size between 100 nm and 300 nm, are continued in the coating, and the screw connection of the two thread partners are lubricated using small amounts of a heat-resistant grease having ceramic powder particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a regulating element (10) for a cutting member (5) clamped in a tool seat (4) of a cutting tool (1), comprising a cylindrical basic body (14), and an active surface (9) impacting the cutting member (5) at a face side (20) when in a mounted state, having a contour (16) deviating from the cylindrical shape at the cylinder sleeve of the basic body (14) as anti-twist protection for the regulating element (10).

Abstract: A clamp fastens a cutting insert to a tool holder. The clamp assembly includes a body portion provided with a screw hole, a forward protrusion formed at the front portion of the body and extending downward, a rear protrusion formed at the rear end portion of the body and extending downward, and a bridge connecting the forward protrusion and the central portion of the body. The clamp assembly also includes a pressing plate having upper and lower surfaces, a front nose portion, a rear end portion, and is provided with a keyhole shaped groove having an enlarged inner cavity open toward the rear end by a narrow neck extending thicknesswise. The forward protrusion is inserted into the enlarged inner cavity and the bridge is inserted into the narrow neck of the keyhole groove so that the pressing plate is coupled to the clamp.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool body and an ambidextrous clamp for removably securing a cutting insert to the tool body. The clamp has at least one internal fluid duct passing through a space between two clamp screw throughbores located mirror symmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry and extending from a coolant fluid inlet port to at least one discharge orifice. The clamp is secured to the tool body by a single screw located in one of the clamp screw throughbores and threadingly engaged with a single threaded bore of the tool body. The same clamp is used in both left-handed and right-handed tools, and the jet of the coolant fluid is ejected from the discharge orifice of the clamp onto the same region of the cutting insert in both cases.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A tool holder has an apparatus for clamping a cutting insert thereto. The tool holder has a cutting insert pocket and a mounting bore; a clamp lever including a clamp portion and a lever portion placed in the mounting bore; and a fixing screw. The fixing screw is fastened through a hole which extends downwardly from a side wall of the tool holder to the mounting bore. One end of the fixing screw further includes a pressure-applying surface substantially perpendicular to the rotational axis of the fixing screw, and the side surface of the lever portion of the clamp lever has an inclined surface which makes contact with the pressure-applying surface of the fixing screw. According to the clamping apparatus, the cutting insert can be firmly clamped to the tool holder.

Abstract: An insert clamp secures a cutting insert having a central hole to a tool holder. The clamp includes a forward protrusion to be received in the central hole of the insert, a central body portion provided with a pressing part to press down the upper surface of the insert and a screw hole for a clamping screw to pass through, and a rear protrusion having a rear contact surface to come in contact with a rearward slanting surface of the tool holder. The forward protrusion is formed on the forward end of the insert clamp, an inside surface of the forward protrusion extends downward in a spaced state apart from the inner wall of the central hole of the insert, and a distal portion of the inside surface the forward protrusion is provided with a protuberance of convex curved surface to come in tangential contact with the inner wall of the insert.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary or fixed cutting tool for machining elements made of a hard and/or abrasive material, said tool comprising at least one active portion having hardness and/or abrasion properties higher than that of the material to be machined, and a passive portion interacting with a tool holder including a clamp, characterised in that the active portion and the passive portion of said tool are formed by an intergral plate defining both portions and obtained directly from a blank having a predetermined constant thickness and a hardness corresponding to that of the active portion so as to obtain a planar tool, and in that the passive portion is elongate and has a constant substantially quadrangular cross-section for interaction with a housing with a corresponding cross-section in the clamp, wherein the integral planar tool thus formed is directly mounted in the housing secured by tightening the same in the clamp.

Abstract: A clamping member for reliably inserting a protrusion portion thereof into a mounting hole of a cutting insert so as to engage the protrusion portion with an inner peripheral surface of the cutting insert and strongly clamp the cutting insert on a tool holder. The clamping member includes a body having a top surface engageable with a head of a clamping bolt, a bottom surface facing the tool holder and a bolt hole for insertion of the clamping bolt, and a protrusion portion protruding from the bottom surface and being engageable with a mounting hole formed in the cutting insert. The protrusion portion has an inclined surface facing toward a rotational direction about a center axis of the clamping bolt, the inclined surface is inclined so that the protrusion portion is gradually tapered from a base side thereof proximate the bottom surface toward an end side thereof distal from the bottom surface.

Abstract: A cutting tool assembly includes an exchangeable adapter releasably secured to a holder. The adapter is provided with a side plate. In a bottom view of the holder, a portion of a front surface of the holder adjacent a first side surface of the holder forms an internal acute angle ? with the first holder side surface and in a bottom view of the adapter, a rear surface of the adapter side plate forms the acute angle ? with an inner side surface of the adapter.

Abstract: A metal cutting system with a tool holder, a shim, an insert with a top depression, a top piece and a clamp. A rake face cooling channel for fluid delivery is formed between the top piece and the depression in the insert. A primary discharge slot at the end of the rake face cooling channel delivers fluid from below the cutting edge of the insert. A second cooling channel for delivery of fluid to the flank face is formed between the insert and the shim or is formed between the shim and the tool holder with a portion of the cooling channel passing through the shim.

Abstract: A metal cutting system with a tool holder, a shim, an insert with a top depression, a top piece and a clamp. A rake face cooling channel for fluid delivery is formed between the top piece and the depression in the insert. A primary discharge slot at the end of the rake face cooling channel delivers fluid from below the cutting edge of the insert. A second cooling channel for delivery of fluid to the flank face is formed between the insert and the shim or is formed between the shim and the tool holder with a portion of the cooling channel passing through the shim.

Abstract: A cutting assembly that is useful in an operation for chipforming removal of material from a workpiece. The cutting assembly includes a holder having a seat and containing a coolant delivery passage. A locking pin, which has a longitudinal locking pin bore, is affixed to the seat so the longitudinal locking pin bore is in communication with the coolant delivery passage. A cutting insert has a rake surface, a corner cutting edge region, a central cutting insert aperture, and a radial coolant trough with an orientation toward the corner cutting edge region. At least a portion of the locking pin is within the central cutting insert aperture. A clamp assembly attaches to the holder and engages the cutting insert. The clamp assembly has a diverter plate, which has a bottom surface defining a diverter bowl and a diverter channel.

Abstract: A metal cutting system with a tool holder, a shim, an insert with a top depression, a top piece and a clamp. A rake face cooling channel for fluid delivery is formed between the top piece and the depression in the insert. A primary discharge slot at the end of the rake face cooling channel delivers fluid from below the cutting edge of the insert. A second cooling channel for delivery of fluid to the flank face is formed between the insert and the shim or is formed between the shim and the tool holder with a portion of the cooling channel passing through the shim.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for fixing a cutting head to an adapter for a machine tool. The cutting head includes a first linear flange, a second linear flange substantially parallel to the first linear flange and a unit for holding a cutting bit. A holding jaw is provided for being fixed to the adapter and for engagement with at least one of the linear flanges on the cutting head, and a clamping device for clamping the at least one holding jaw between the at least one flange of the cutting head and the adapter. At least one further clamping device is connected to the adapter for engagement with the second or the linear flanges. Furthermore a cutting head and an adapter is defined.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert releasably retained therein. The cutting insert has top and bottom surfaces and a peripheral surface extending therebetween. The cutting insert does not include any clamping bore for receiving a clamping component therein. The cutting insert may having unitary, one-piece construction and be formed of a superabrasive material. The cutting insert may have a two-headed arrow shape, or similar shapes, such that the body of the cutting insert is small relative to the cutting regions thereof. The cutting tool includes a top clamp for clamping the cutting insert in an insert pocket. The top clamp has an asymmetrical shape and engages the cutting insert in one engagement region on the top surface, and in one engagement region on the peripheral surface. The cutting insert engages the insert pocket at the bottom surface, and in three spaced apart engagement regions on the peripheral surface.

Abstract: A cutting tool with a cutting insert secured in an insert pocket. The cutting insert has a single outwardly protruding engagement protrusion located on its opposing side surfaces. The engagement protrusion of a respective side surface has an outer surface that defines an imaginary plane that does not intersect any portion of the respective side surface apart from that outer surface. The outer surface of one engagement protrusion engages a major wall of the insert pocket.

Abstract: The present invention relates to cutting tools with cutting inserts and, more particularly, to cutting tools with cutting inserts that have mounting recesses. The cutting insert includes a body having a mounting hole having an axis extending therethrough, and a surface portion in the mounting hole. The surface portion is substantially circular when viewed in a direction of the axis and is non-parallel to the axis and including at least two contact points disposed at a lesser distance from the axis than a region between the at least two contact points. A cutting tool is also disclosed.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A grooving tool for cutting grooves in workpieces and a grooving tool tool holder for permitting replacement of inserts and permitting inserts to be replaced without moving the tool holder with respect to the grooving tool in which the tool holder is installed. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.

Abstract: A cutting tool for parting and grooving operations of the kind including a coupling part, which is intended for mounting the cutting tool in a machine tool, and a tool head detachably connected to the coupling part. The tool head includes a basic holder part and, joined to the basic holder part, a blade part, in front portion of which an insert pocket is formed, in which a cutting insert is fastenable. The cutting tool also includes means for supplying cooling agent to the cutting insert. The cooling agent supplying means includes a tube member, which is mounted in a recess, which is transverse to the longitudinal direction of the blade part and arranged in the tool head. The tube member has an inlet for connection to a cooling agent source and an outlet for leading the cooling agent in a direction towards the cutting insert.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool for machining processes, in essence composed of a clamping holder with a recess for accepting a support plate and with a cutting plate secured on the support plate by way of a clamping claw. It is proposed, for secure fastening of the cutting plate on the clamping holder, that an interlocking tongue-and-groove connection is used for positioning of the cutting plate on the support plate.

Abstract: A cutting tool for grooving and turning operations has a removably securable cutting insert. The cutting insert is clamped in an insert holder with a longitudinally extending insert receiving slot lower surface. The insert receiving slot lower surface has two spaced apart contact sections, including a first contact section at a rear end having a V-shaped slot clamping surface with a wedge angle ?1 in clamping contact with a first V-shaped insert clamping surface of the cutting insert lower surface also with a wedge angle ?1, and a second contact section at a front end having a V-shaped slot clamping surface with a wedge angle ?2 making clamping contact with a second V-shaped insert clamping surface of the cutting insert lower surface also with a wedge angle ?2, where ?1 and ?2 are different.

Abstract: A tool for chip-removing machining includes a holder on which in indexible cutting insert is mounted. The holder includes a first base surface on which a plurality of male parts are disposed to define an insert seat. The insert includes generally parallel second and third base surfaces, each having a plurality of female parts disposed therein. The insert is invertible such that the female parts of one of the second and third base surfaces receive respective male parts of the holder. A fastener secures the insert on the seat, with the male parts tightly fitted in the female parts. The male parts are flexible relative to the first base surface to ensure a firm abutment of the male parts with surfaces of respective female parts.

Abstract: A self contained, toolless quick change tool holder for trigon cutter inserts on machine tools comprises a housing having at least one seat portion which is adapted to receive and conform to the shape of a variant shaped cutter insert. A fork is mounted in the insert housing and is movable within the insert housing. The fork engages a variant shaped cutter insert. A locking mechanism is contained within the housing and has a clamp position which forces the clamp portion to engage a variant shaped cutter insert and a release position which forces the clamp portion to disengage from a variant shaped cutter insert to allow removal and replacement of said variant shaped shaped cutter insert. The locking mechanism moves between the release position and the clamp position.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to increase stability for fixing a cutting tool with a holder formed of a sleeve, and to improve machining accuracy of a boring tool using the holder and prevent chipping of a cutting edge. In a holder for a boring tool holding a bar-shaped cutting tool by receiving it in a center hole in a sleeve and clamping it with clamp means, the sleeve is provided with a slit cutting a region from the center hole in the sleeve to an outer periphery surface thereof lengthwise from a front end to a longitudinal partway portion of the sleeve, and is further provided with a fastener tightening a slit-formed portion of the sleeve to change an inner diameter of the center hole.

Abstract: 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. A guide pin prevents the clamp from twisting during tightening or loosening of the clamp. 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 the top surface of the cutting insert. In addition, only a forward lower face of a head portion of the clamp screw engages a top surface of the clamp.

Abstract: A tool for metal-cutting machining of a surface of an opening particularly of a valve seat in a cylinder head of an internal combustion engines. The tool has a cutter tip with at least one geometrically defined cutting edge. The cutter tip rests on two supporting regions in the tool which are arranged at an angle ?, and an angle-bisecting line runs essentially perpendicularly with respect to the active cutting edge which then is removing chips from the valve seat. A claw holds the cutting tip to the tool end. Coolant and lubricant are supplied through an outlet from the claw.

Abstract: A cutting tool comprises an insert holder and a cutting insert. The insert holder has a clamping portion comprising a base jaw a clamping jaw and an insert pocket therebetween. The clamping jaw comprises two independently resilient elongated sub-clamping jaws separated by an elongated recess. The cutting insert is resiliently clamped in the insert pocket between the two elongated sub-clamping jaws and the base jaw.

Abstract: An integral insert clamping mechanism for transferring clamping forces away from the screw hole of the insert to relieve stress at the screw hole by way of protrusions located on the bottom surface of the clamp plate. The clamping mechanism functions by a clamp plate being seated within an indentation on the top surface of the insert and a screw inserted into screw holes of the clamp plate and the insert and then threadably engaged with a threaded bore of a milling cutter. The top surfaces of the screw, the insert and the clamp plate being substantially coplanar. In an alternative embodiment, the clamp plate having a chip breaker.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a basic body and a cutting body that is fixable to the basic body via a male/female coupling. The coupling includes male-like fingers and female-like seats, which are delimited between elastically resilient projections. Each finger includes two converging wedge surfaces, which are pressable against a pair of diverging support surfaces of two adjacent projections. The axial angle of convergence of the two wedge surfaces of an individual finger differ from the angle of divergence of the two co-operating support surfaces of the projections, as long as the fingers are not loaded against the projections. In such a way, the removal of the cutting body from the basic body is facilitated.

Abstract: A tool holder assembly that includes a tool holder member adapted to be secured to a machine tool and a cutting insert support/clamp for clamping and supporting a cutting insert. The support/clamp member includes a plurality of serrations that are engageable with complementally formed serrations on the tool holder whereby a tight fitting engagement is achieved using removable fasteners. The support/clamp includes a clamping arm elastically movable towards and away from a support base and a clamping block connected to the connecting arm adapted to receive clamping forces from a threaded clamping bolt. The clamping bolt defines a force applying surface located in a first plane whereas the clamping block defines a force receiving surface located in a second plane, the first and second planes located at a diverging angle with respect to each other. The clamping block includes an edge portion engageable with a step on the tool holder that is spaced from the clamping arm.

Abstract: A clamp pin tool holder for clamping an insert in a tool holder includes a bore for receiving a clamp pin and a bore for receiving a lock screw. The clamp pin includes a cam portion with angled surfaces. The lock screw is rotatably mounted to the bore of the tool holder and includes angled surfaces for engaging the angled surfaces of the clamp pin. When the lock screw is rotated in one direction, one angled surface on the lock screw and one angled surface on the clamp pin engage each other an acts as a conical wedge to cause the clamp pin to move relative to the lock screw. When the lock screw is rotated in the opposite direction, another angled surface on the lock screw engages a different angled surface on the clamp pin in a similar manner to cause the clamp pin to move in an opposite direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamp mechanism which prevents a tip body from being greatly cut out by a fitting hole to secure strength of a tip without complicating the shape of a head portion of a clamp member or a fitting hole of a tip body. There is provided a clamp mechanism of a tip for pressing the tip, in which a fitting hole is formed through a tip body, by the use of a clamp member having a shaft portion inserted into the fitting hole and a head portion with an outer diameter equal to or larger than that of the shaft portion and thus clamping the tip to a tip fitting seat. In the clamp member, a section, which is perpendicular to the central axis line, of the back surface of the head portion has a circle shape centered at the central axis line.

Abstract: A tool holder includes a main part, and an angular pressing member; the main part has a fitting portion at one end, and holding portion adjacent to a front edge of and lower than the fitting portion; the angular pressing member has a recessed holding portion, which has a receiving hole, and a protruding portion therein; a pad is screwed onto the holding portion, and a tool is fixed on the pad to be closely in touch with the front edge of the fitting portion; the angular pressing member is screwed onto the fitting portion such that the recessed holding portion fits over a rear portion of the tool, and the protruding portion is pressed against an upper side of the tool, and an edge of the tool closely touches an edge of the recessed holding portion, and a rear tip of the tool is received in the receiving hole.

Abstract: The indexable insert of the present invention has a cutting edge at the end of a stick-shaped portion projecting from a tool base. The base is shaped to ensure effective clamping, thereby avoiding chatter and backlash. A cutting edge and a rake face are provided at the end of the stick-shaped portion, which is also provided with a side relief face so that chips cut from the workpiece are smoothly carried away. The cutting edge extends sideways beyond the side relief face so that the insert can effectively cut the walls of small and deep holes.