Specified Tool Shape Patents (Class 407/42)
  • Publication number: 20140341660
    Abstract: A double-sided cutting insert for milling which has eight main cutting edges and eight wiper edges. The cutting insert includes top and bottom faces and four side faces. Each side face includes first and second sub-faces inclined with respect to each other. The first sub-face has a main cutting edge adjacent to the top face and a wiper edge adjacent to the bottom face. The second sub-face has a wiper edge adjacent to the top face and a main cutting edge adjacent to the bottom face. The wiper edge of the second sub-face is inclined inwardly relative to the cutting insert with respect to the main cutting edge of the first sub-face. The wiper edge of the first sub-face is inclined inwardly relative to the cutting insert with respect to the main cutting edge of the second sub-face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: Sung Kook Cheon
  • Patent number: 8882402
    Abstract: An anti-rotation mounting mechanism is provided between an indexable insert and an insert-receiving pocket in the body of a machine tool, such as a milling cutter. The mechanism includes a plurality of curved stop surfaces uniformly disposed around the side surface of the insert, a portion of which is obliquely oriented with respect to the side surface of the insert, and an anti-rotation feature in the pocket of the tool body having a pair of engagement portions that are substantially complementary in shape to that of the stop surfaces for forming an interference joint between the pocket and the insert. The anti-rotation feature further includes a central planar portion that does not engage the stop surfaces. The mechanism effectively prevents rotation between the insert and pocket without the formation of point-type, localized stresses which can chip or break the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: Brad Daniel Hoffer
  • Patent number: 8882405
    Abstract: A double-sided, indexable face milling insert, including an upperside, an underside, and a neutral plane (NP) parallel to the upperside and the underside, the neutral plane forming a right angle with a geometrical center axis (C2). A plurality of indexable cutting edges are formed along circumferential borderlines in transitions between a number of clearance surfaces and the upperside as well as the underside. Each cutting edge includes a chip-removing main edge and a surface-wiping secondary edge, the secondary edge forming an obtuse angle with the main edge in planar view. A corner clearance surface extends between and connects each pair of upper and lower secondary edges, the corner clearance surface including first and second part surfaces which each form an acute angle (?) in side elevation view with respective reference planes (RP) parallel to the neutral plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Amil Oprasic, Lennart Wihlborg, Leif Widin, Stefan Roman
  • Patent number: 8882408
    Abstract: A cutting insert having a cutting edge is located along an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, having a major cutting edge, a second cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge located between the major cutting edge and the flat cutting edge. The upper surface includes a flat part located away from the cutting edge, and a rake face inclined downward from the cutting edge to the flat part. In at least a part between the major cutting edge and the flat part, a groove part lies along the major cutting edge. The groove part includes the rake face and a rising face inclined upward from the rake face to the flat part. A connection part where the rake face and the flat part exist continuously extends from the minor cutting edge to a boundary of the minor cutting edge and the major cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Hirohisa Ishi
  • Patent number: 8882407
    Abstract: A cutting insert is provided including at least three cutting edges, each cutting edge including a primary cutting edge. Each primary cutting edge is associated with a respective different side surface of the cutting insert, each side surface having a respective rake surface and a clearance surface. The clearance surface is of varying width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Adnan Agic
  • Patent number: 8882404
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a cutting tool holder and a cutting insert adapted to be mounted thereon. The tool holder comprises an insert seat defined by a base and at least one side wall extending from the base to define an insert seat space adapted to receive therein the insert. The seat comprises a support element extending into the insert seat from the base, and a fastening member engageable with the seat. The fastening member is displaceable with respect thereto between a mounting position adapted to allow the insert to be mounted onto the seat and a securing position adapted for securing the insert within the seat. The insert is formed with a securing cavity and when the insert is mounted onto the tool holder and is in the securing position, a portion of the support element and the fastening member is received within the cavity of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: No Screw Ltd
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Patent number: 8876440
    Abstract: A cutting insert, and more particularly, an improved double-sided cutting insert is provided, which provides improved machinability obtained due to increased rake angle, without compromising coupling state. The double-sided cutting insert includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of lateral relief surfaces connecting the top and bottom surfaces, and a cutting edge formed by the top and bottom surfaces and the plurality of lateral relief surfaces, in which one or more lateral relief surfaces of the plurality of lateral relief surfaces are formed into three stages in sequence which are a first positive surface, a negative surface and a second positive surface in a direction from the top surface to the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Korloy Inc.
    Inventors: Ki-Chan Nam, Sang-Yong Lee, Wook-Jung Sung, Dong-Bok Park, Jong-Chan Lee
  • Patent number: 8858130
    Abstract: An indexable, invertable cutting insert has radially-oriented positioning segments on a front face of the insert and radially-oriented positioning segments on the back face of the insert. The radially-oriented positioning segments are shifted on the front face relative to those on the back face such that, when the cutting insert is engaged within the toolholder, the cutting segment utilized on the front face will never be directly opposite the cutting segment utilized on the back face. A toolholder system is made up of the cutting insert and a toolholder capable of securing and indexing the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Ray Morrison, Howard Murphy, Gianfranco Accardi, Marco Procopio, Andreas Lieber, Juan Seculi, Kumar Reddy Mylavaram Nikhilesh
  • Patent number: 8858127
    Abstract: A cutting insert has eight identical main cutting edges. Four main cutting edges can operate with a positive axial rake and four can operate with a negative axial rake. The cutting insert has two opposing identical end surfaces and a peripheral surface extending between the end surfaces. The cutting insert is square-shaped in end views. Each end surface has four corners, two lowered corners and two raised corners. A diagonal line passes through the lowered corners of each end surface. For a given orientation of the cutting insert the peripheral surface has a V-shape in views along the two diagonal lines associated with each end surface, the two V-shapes being identical in form and oriented in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Amir Satran, Evgeny Tulchinsky
  • Patent number: 8851810
    Abstract: A cutting tool of the present invention includes a cutting insert and a holder having at a front end part thereof an insert pocket for attaching the cutting insert. The insert pocket includes a seating part including a seating face which is brought into contact with the lower surface of the cutting insert, and is inclined forward in a rotation direction of the holder as the seating face separates from the front end part of the holder; and a constraining part brought into contact with first and second side surfaces adjacent to each other among the side surface of the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Hirohisa Ishi
  • Publication number: 20140294522
    Abstract: A milling tool includes a body which is rotatable about a first axis. At least one cutting tooth mounted on the body having a cutting edge for cutting about the first axis. A wiper tooth extends from the mill body. The wiper tooth includes at least at a portion having a peripheral surface about the second axis and the peripheral surface intersects a face surface defining a cutting edge that is round about the second axis for cutting about the first axis. In some embodiments, the peripheral surface, the face surface and the cutting edge are formed on an insert that is mounted the mill body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: ROTARY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: DOUGLAS J. WOODRUFF, GARY W. PENNALA, WILLIAM J. ENDRES
  • Patent number: 8834075
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a top surface and a bottom surface having a parallelogram shape, and four side surfaces connecting the top and bottom surfaces. One or more primary cutting edges are formed at intersections between the top and bottom surfaces and two opposing side surfaces. Secondary cutting edges are formed at intersections between the top and bottom surfaces and two other opposing side surfaces. The primary cutting edge forms a first angle with respect to a median plane parallel to the top and bottom surfaces. The secondary cutting edge forms a second angle with respect to the median plane. The top and bottom surfaces have a mounting surface and a rack surface, wherein the rack surface extends inwardly from the cutting edge toward the median plane. The top and bottom surfaces of the cutting insert have mirror symmetry with respect to the median plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Gyu Park
  • Publication number: 20140234036
    Abstract: A single-sided tangential ramping milling insert for high speed milling includes opposite insert seating and top surfaces and a peripheral surface which extends therebetween. The milling insert has a reference plane (P) which passes through the entire peripheral surface, midway between the seating and top surfaces. The peripheral surface includes two opposite side surfaces. Each side surface includes a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge connected to the first cutting edge and extending transversely thereto, a ramping cutting edge connected to the second cutting edge and located opposite the first cutting edge, and a rake surface which extends from at least a portion of the first cutting edge toward the insert seating surface. The milling insert includes two ramping relief surfaces, each of which extends from a ramping cutting edge of one side surface towards the first cutting edge of the opposite side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osama Atar, Amir Satran
  • Patent number: 8807881
    Abstract: In a semi-finishing cutter, rectangular tips and square tips are disposed in a staggered pattern in an axial direction in second to fourth step portions, so a single cutting edge is formed by a pair of one of the rectangular tips and one of the square tips. It is therefore possible to effectively reduce a frequency of contact with a blade root. A cutting speed of the semi-finishing cutter may be increased and a cutting feed may be made faster, so work in a semi-finishing process may be performed efficiently. The rectangular tips and the square tips have simple shapes, so known commercially available throwaway tips may be used. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the semi-finishing cutter in an easy-to-use form without increasing the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Tasuku Itoh, Yasuo Hamatake, Katsutoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8794878
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprising a cutting tool holder and a cutting insert adapted to be mounted thereon. The tool holder comprises an insert seat defined by a base and at least one side wall extending from the base to define an insert seat space adapted to receive therein the insert. The seat comprises a support element extending into the insert seat from the base, and a fastening member engageable with the seat. The fastening member is displaceable with respect thereto between a mounting position adapted to allow the insert to be mounted onto the seat and a securing position adapted for securing the insert within the seat. The insert is formed with a securing cavity and when the insert is mounted onto the tool holder and is in the securing position, a portion of the support element and the fastening member is received within the cavity of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: No Screw Ltd
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Publication number: 20140212229
    Abstract: A double-sided cutting insert for milling, in particular for face milling, includes first and second cutting edges each having alternately disposed main lips and secondary lips which each extend between active and passive cutting corners. Each main lip, starting from a first distance from a reference plane at an active cutting corner, extends in a manner dropping monotonously to a smaller, second distance from the reference plane at a passive cutting corner. That end of a secondary lip that adjoins the active cutting corner is in each case at a greater distance from the reference plane than the other end of the secondary lip that is remote from the active cutting corner. A circumferential side surface has, immediately adjacent the secondary lips, in each case planar secondary flanks and each secondary lip is formed at least regionally in a convex manner in plan view of the associated secondary flank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: CERATIZIT AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventor: Anton Diepold
  • Publication number: 20140212228
    Abstract: A cutting insert and an indexable insert-type cutting tool includes a cutting edge (6A) formed on each of a pair of side ridge portions of at least one of the side faces, wherein an insert main body (1) is formed in the shape of having front-back inversion symmetry which is 180° rotationally symmetrical with respect to a line of symmetry (N) passing through the center of the side faces; a flank face adjacent to the cutting edge (6A) is formed on the side face in the vicinity of each of the pair of polygonal faces (2); each of the flank faces is formed in the shape of a twisted face; the pair of side ridge portions on which the cutting edge (6A) is formed intersect each other in such a manner that the second corner portion (B) of one side ridge portion protrudes outside the other side ridge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobukazu Horiike, Yuji Takagi
  • Publication number: 20140205388
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes a first surface having a first rake surface, a second surface having a second rake surface, a central axis of the insert extending between the first and second surfaces, four side surfaces extending between the first surface and the second surface, and four cutting edges. Each cutting edge has a first cutting edge component and a second cutting edge component and being associated with a respective one of the first and second surfaces and with two respective ones of the side surfaces. The first rake surface is identical to the second rake surface and the first rake surface and the second rake surface are oriented at a 90° angle to each other about the central axis of the insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SECO TOOLS AB
    Inventor: Stefan Hedberg
  • Publication number: 20140199127
    Abstract: The cutting insert for a face milling cutter is provided with an insert main body which is formed in a polygonal plate shape and in a shape of inversion symmetry on the front and back faces, a pair of polygonal faces facing in a thickness direction of the insert main body, side faces facing in a direction intersecting with the thickness direction, and cutting edges formed along a ridge line between the polygonal face and the side face. The polygonal face is in a substantially regular polygonal shape. The cutting edge has a major cutting edge, a minor cutting edge, and a connecting edge. The side face has a first flank face arranged adjacent to the cutting edge and gradually inclines outward in the insert radial direction. The first flank face is arranged so as to be adjacent at least to the major cutting edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu Imai, Hiroshi Hoki
  • Patent number: 8776649
    Abstract: A turning insert formed for chip-cutting metal machining of a workpiece that rotates in a direction of rotation at a first speed of rotation around a workpiece axis, the turning insert including a front surface, an envelope surface, and a circular cutting edge located where the front surface meets the envelope surface. The cutting edge extends around the front surface and lays in a plane that forms an angle ? with the envelope surface. A tool axis extends through the turning insert in a normal direction in respect of the plane, and the turning insert, during the chip-cutting metal machining, is formed to rotate around the tool axis at a second speed of rotation. The envelope surface forms a chip surface and is arranged to meet chips formed in the chip-cutting metal machining, and the chip surface includes chip breaking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventor: Sture Sjöö
  • Patent number: 8777524
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of side surfaces that connect the top and bottom surfaces. The side surfaces form an obtuse angle with the bottom surface as well as an acute angle with the top surface. The side surfaces include a first side surface and a second side surface, which form an obtuse angle with each other when seen from the above. A main cutting edge is formed at an intersection between the first side surface and the top surface. An inclined cutting edge, which is only for ramp milling, and a minor cutting edge are formed at an intersection between the second side surface and the top surface. An obtuse angle, which the second side surface forms with the bottom surface, is greater than that which the first side surface forms with the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: TaeguTec Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Gyu Park, Sung Pil Choi
  • Publication number: 20140178135
    Abstract: A cutting insert, a cutting tool and method of manufacturing a machined product. The cutting insert includes: upper and lower surfaces; a side surface; a cutting edge; and a rake portion on the upper surface. The cutting edge includes major and minor cutting edges that are convex toward outside of the main body portion. The minor cutting edge has a curvature radius smaller than a curvature radius of the major cutting edge. The rake portion is inclined and approaches the lower surface as moving from the major cutting edge toward inside of the main body portion and is located along the major cutting edge. An inclination angle of the rake portion becomes smaller as moving from a part continuous with one end of the major cutting edge toward a part continuous with center of the major cutting edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8757940
    Abstract: A cutting insert has a main body which is provided with an upper surface, a side surface, at least one groove which is formed in the side surface and which extends to the upper surface at one end, and a plurality of split cutting blades which are split by the at least one groove. The upper surface is provided with inclined portions corresponding to the split cutting blades. The distance of respective lower ends of the inclined portions from the corresponding split cutting blades increases toward the centers of the corresponding cutting blades in a plan view. A cutting tool having the cutting insert and a method for cutting a workpiece using the cutting tool are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Ishida
  • Publication number: 20140169893
    Abstract: A cutting tool system is designed to have a combined sinusoidal-shaped and helical-shaped cutting edge formed by an assembly of aligned common cutting inserts each having a sinusoidal and helical cutting edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: X. Daniel Fang, Frederick John Palmer, Jean-Luc Dufour, David J. Wills
  • Publication number: 20140169892
    Abstract: A replaceable cutting head includes a forward cutting portion and a rearward mounting portion. The mounting portion includes a male coupling member that protrudes rearwardly from a base surface. The male coupling member includes three circumferentially spaced apart head fixation members, where each head fixation member has a head peripheral surface that spirals inwardly in a direction against the direction of rotation and diverges. A tool holder includes a female coupling member extends rearwardly from a holder forward surface. The female coupling member includes three circumferentially spaced apart holder fixation members, where each holder fixation member has a holder peripheral surface that diverges rearwardly. When a cutting tool, which includes said cutting head and tool holder, is in a locked position, the male coupling member of the replaceable cutting head is removably retained within the female coupling member of the tool holder by means of a self-lock mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Patent number: 8753045
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert secured in an insert pocket. The cutting insert has two abutment bars located on its opposing side surfaces. The abutment bars of a respective side surface have generally coplanar outer surfaces which define an imaginary plane that does not intersect any portion of the respective side surface apart from the outer surfaces. The outer surfaces of one set of abutment bars engage a major wall of the insert pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Publication number: 20140161545
    Abstract: A negative cutting insert having a cutting edge comprising four long-side cutting edge portions for rough cutting and four short-side cutting edge portions for finish cutting, which are connected alternately, thereby being able to conduct rough cutting when attached to a rough-cutting tool body, and finish cutting when attached to a finish-cutting tool body. When such cutting inserts are used for rough or finish cutting and then reattached to a finish-cutting tool body or a rough-cutting tool body, finish or rough cutting can be conducted, thereby using all cutting edges thoroughly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko Inagaki, Hisanori Mura, Tomohiro Murata
  • Patent number: 8740518
    Abstract: An insert according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface which is connected to the upper surface and the lower surface, and includes a first side surface, and a cutting edge which is located an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface, and comprises a first cutting edge corresponding to the first side surface. The first cutting edge has a projected shape projected toward the upper surface in a side view, and has a recessed shape recessed inward in a top view. A cutting tool according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the insert and a holder configured to attach the insert thereto so that at least a part of the first cutting edge has a negative axial rake angle. A method of manufacturing a machined product according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method of manufacturing the machined product by using the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Hirohisa Ishi
  • Patent number: 8740509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting insert for a cutting tool for the chip-removing high feed milling machining of workpieces, the cutting tool having a holder with a seat for receiving the cutting insert, the cutting insert having at least one cutting edge lying in a covering surface. To achieve a higher feed speed and greater cutting depth, particularly during high feed milling, there is provision, according to the invention, whereby the cutting edge has in portions three different radii of curvature, a first portion having the smallest radius, a middle second portion adjoining it having the largest radius, and a third portion adjoining the latter having a medium radius lying between the smallest and the largest radius, and whereby a peripheral line, running through all the cutting edges, of the covering surface is exclusively convexly curved. The invention relates, furthermore, to a correspondingly configured holder and to a cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Luik
  • Patent number: 8734064
    Abstract: A tooling insert for a screw machine includes a plurality of cutoff blades. The insert is indexable. The cutting side of the blade includes a planar impact surface with a 7° side rake angle. In addition, the blade cutting side has a narrow raised land adjacent the impact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Century Tool & Design, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond E. Koontz
  • Patent number: 8714885
    Abstract: In a rough cutting cutter, square tips and rectangular tips are disposed in a staggered pattern in an axial direction in second to fourth step portions, so a cutting edge is formed by a pair of one of the square tips and one of the rectangular tips. It is therefore possible to effectively reduce a frequency of contact with a blade root. Furthermore, in the second to a fifth step portions, ARs (rake angles in the axial direction) and RRs (rake angles in a radial direction) of the square tips and the rectangular tips gradually increase in order from a tip end to a back end of a tool body. It is therefore possible to suppress chatter vibration during machining and is possible to reduce roughness of a cut surface of a work material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Tasuku Itoh, Yasuo Hamatake, Katsutoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8708616
    Abstract: In a rotary cutting tool used for milling operations, a reversible indexable cutting insert is removably secured in a cutting body. The cutting insert has two opposing end surfaces interconnected by a continuous peripheral surface, including three side surfaces alternating with three corner surfaces. The side and corner surfaces intersect with both end surfaces at side and corner edges, respectively, with each side edge having a major cutting edge, and each corner edge having a corner and minor cutting edge. Each major and minor cutting edge slopes away from first and second end points, respectively, of its mutually associated corner cutting edge, towards a median plane. A first imaginary straight line extending perpendicular to the median plane and intersecting any one of the corner cutting edges at any point along its length except the second end point, passes through the median plane inside an insert boundary line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Carol Smilovici, Osama Atar
  • Patent number: 8708612
    Abstract: A milling cutter includes a cutter body and at least three circumferentially spaced insert pockets, axially offset one with respect to the other, each having a replaceable cutting insert secured thereto. Each cutting insert has at least two identical straight serrated cutting edges and all the cutting inserts are identical. A first insert pocket (30) is an axially forwardmost insert pocket. A second insert pocket is axially offset from the first insert pocket by a first offset distance that is smaller than an offset distance associated with any other pair of axially adjacent insert pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuri Men, Eduard Astrakhan
  • Patent number: 8696257
    Abstract: The cutting insert is provided with a polygonal-shaped insert main body (2) having two polygonal surfaces (3, 3) spaced away from each other and a plurality of side surfaces formed between these polygonal surfaces and also provided with cutting edges (8A, 8B, 8C) formed as a rake face on a peripheral edge of a first side surface (4) among the plurality of side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Saito, Nobukazu Horiike, Jun Kitajima
  • Patent number: 8690494
    Abstract: A cutting tool system is designed to have a combined sinusoidal-shaped and helical-shaped cutting edge formed by an assembly of aligned common cutting inserts each having a sinusoidal and helical cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: X. Daniel Fang, Frederick John Palmer, Jean-Luc Dufour, David J. Wills
  • Patent number: 8684642
    Abstract: A cutting insert has an upper face, a lower face, a side face, an upper cutting edge, a lower cutting edge and a through hole. The upper face has a substantially polygonal shape. The side face has a first side face and a second side face. The first side face has at least one upper concave part and at least one lower concave part. The at least one upper concave part and the at least one lower concave part are separated from each other through a thick part being continuous along a width direction of the side face. The thick part has a curved region extending in the shape of a wave from one end to the other end in the width direction of the first side face in a side view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichirou Koga
  • Publication number: 20140076117
    Abstract: A cutting insert of an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface connected to each of the upper surface and the lower surface, and an upper cutting edge located at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The lower surface includes a mount part having alternately three first top portions spaced a distance a away from a central axis extending between the upper and lower surfaces and three second top portions spaced a distance b away from the central axis in a bottom view. The mount part further has a concave part including at least the central axis. The second top portions are located closer to the upper surface than the first top portions. A cutting tool with the cutting insert, and a method of manufacturing a machined product by using the cutting tool are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Masahiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20140072377
    Abstract: A milling tool has single sided and indexable milling inserts having a round basic shape. Each milling insert has a plurality of tangentially spaced-apart and alternately usable cutting edges, which individually fall archedly from a first end, situated closest to an upper reference plane, to a lowest point, from which it again rises toward a second end. A reinforcing chamfer surface included in the cutting edge is formed with an increasing width in a direction from the first end of the cutting edge toward the second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventor: Ulrik SUNNVIUS
  • Publication number: 20140064863
    Abstract: What is provided is a tip dresser (10) capable of smoothly discharging shavings (70) by a breaker (60) provided on a cutter (40). The tip dresser includes a cutter (40) having cutting blades (47) for cutting the tip end portions (2) of a pair of electrode tips (1) and an attaching hole (50), a holder (20) to which the cutter is attached by screwing an attaching screw (55) inserted through the attaching hole, and a rotary drive portion that holds rotatably the holder. On the surface side (46) of the cutter, the breaker (60) for discharging shavings is disposed. The breaker is formed into a plate shape having an insertion hole (62) through which the attaching screw is inserted to tighten the breaker together with the cutter by an attaching screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: KYOKUTOH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kotaro Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8657539
    Abstract: A round cutting insert with a reverse anti-rotation feature that can be manufactured easily and inexpensively is disclosed. The round cutting insert includes a plurality of dimples formed on a first surface and another plurality of dimples formed on a second, opposing surface. The round insert is reversible and indexable. The round cutting insert is removable received in an insert receiving pocket in a tool body. The insert receiving pocket includes a single projection that is capable of being received in one of the plurality of dimples. The cooperation between the projection and one of the plurality of dimples prevents rotation of the round cutting insert when mounted in the insert receiving pocket. The plurality of dimples and the projection can be any desirable complimentary shape, such as a slot, a V-shape, a wagon wheel, a sports wheel, a pyramid, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Ray Morrison, Kumar Reddy Mylavaram Nikhilesh, Suresh Mali
  • Patent number: 8647027
    Abstract: A cutting insert for mounting in a socket on an insert holder of a milling cutter. The cutting insert has opposing top and bottom surfaces and a peripheral surface extending therebetween, forming one or two cutting edges. The peripheral surface has a front arcuate surface and a rear surface. The rear surface has a protuberance that extends in a direction away from a central region of the front surface. The protuberance is located in the socket. The socket includes a first socket side abutment surface for providing primarily axial support for the cutting insert against cutting forces acting in an axial rearward direction during a milling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuri Men
  • Patent number: 8641331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a milling cutting insert having a square or triangular shaped cutting face delimited in the plan view by a peripheral cutting edge having linear cutting edges (10) and curved cutting corners (11). According to the invention, each of the cutting edges (10) comprises an inclined region (10a) sloping toward a cutting corner (11), extending beyond the tangential point (14) determined by the point at which the linear cutting edge (10) transitions into a curved cutting corner (11), wherein adjacent thereto the cutting edge (10b) rises prior to the point (24) determined by a cutting corner angle bisector (15), wherein said rising region (10b) extends to a cutting edge maximum (17) on the other side of the cutting corner (11) on the adjacent cutting edge (10), which is linear in plan view, from where the cutting edge (10) continues, again inclined and sloping downward, resulting in a rotationally symmetric form having identically shaped cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Jürgen Zastrozynski, Carsten Schwaner, Andreas Wessel, Richard Fischer, Martin Hausmann
  • Publication number: 20140010605
    Abstract: In a rotary cutting tool used for milling operations, a reversible indexable cutting insert is removably secured in a cutting body. The cutting insert has two opposing end surfaces interconnected by a continuous peripheral surface, including three side surfaces alternating with three corner surfaces. The side and corner surfaces intersect with both end surfaces at side and corner edges, respectively, with each side edge having a major cutting edge, and each corner edge having a corner and minor cutting edge. Each major and minor cutting edge slopes away from first and second end points, respectively, of its mutually associated corner cutting edge, towards a median plane. A first imaginary straight line extending perpendicular to the median plane and intersecting any one of the corner cutting edges at any point along its length except the second end point, passes through the median plane inside an insert boundary line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Carol Smilovici, Osama Atar
  • Patent number: 8613576
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting insert having two working surfaces facing away from each other and having a through hole extending between the working surfaces for receiving a fastening bolt, having a peripheral cutter rim having a cutting edge on each working surface and a central recess surrounded annularly by the cutter rim, having a number of segment-like molded parts corresponding to the number of different cutter positions of a working surface, for positioning the cutting insert in the corresponding cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Guenter Ebert, Armin Kretschmer
  • Publication number: 20130330135
    Abstract: A cutting insert for machining has a substantially cylindrical main body with an axis, a lateral flank and opposing rake faces. Cutting edges are formed at the intersection of the flank and rake faces. The cutting edges have, in the direction of the axis, in each case at least two convexly curved sections which are connected together by concavely curved or substantially straight sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: CETATIZIT AUSTRIA GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Peter Burtscher, Juergen Duwe, Markus Krabicher, Uwe Schleinkofer
  • Patent number: 8596933
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a main body provided with a pocket part and a cutting insert. The pocket part includes at least one side wall and bottom surface which includes a pocket part base surface, a first pocket part inclined surface connected to an inner end of the base surface on an inside of the main body, and a second pocket part inclined surface connected to an outer end of the base surface on an outside of the main body. The cutting insert has an upper surface, a lower surface and side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The lower surface includes an insert base surface, first and second inclined surfaces inclined upwardly from first and second sides of the base surface, respectively. The cutting insert is seated in the pocket part such that the second inclined surface abuts the second pocket part inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventor: Su Jin Ryu
  • Patent number: 8596934
    Abstract: Milling insert and tool for center cutting milling of material. At least one first cutting edge is terminated in or adjacent to a center axis defined by the milling insert and includes a first cutting edge portion having a first radius that is essentially equally great for each point of the first cutting edge portion. The first cutting edge includes at least one second cutting edge portion that is plane or has at least one second radius for each point of the respective second cutting edge portion, the at least one second radius being greater than the first radius and that is situated between the first cutting edge portion and the center axis. One second cutting edge portion adjoins the first cutting edge portion, and one second cutting edge portion is terminated in or adjacent to the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Ralf Lehto, Rickard Sundström, Johan Bergquist
  • Patent number: 8579558
    Abstract: An insert comprises an insert main body having an upper surface and a plurality of side surfaces, a cutting edge located between both ends of a ridge which is between at least one side surface among the side surfaces and the upper surface, a high-positioned portion located at one end of the ridge, and a low-positioned portion located lower in the thickness direction of the insert main body than the high-positioned portion and located at the other end of the ridge. The cutting edge comprises a first flat cutting edge having substantially the same height as the high-positioned portion, and a tilted cutting edge having a height decreasing from the high-positioned portion toward the low-positioned portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Kaoru Hatta
  • Patent number: 8573903
    Abstract: A round cutting insert with an anti-rotation feature. The round cutting insert includes a plurality of projections formed on a first surface and another plurality of projections formed on an opposing surface. The round cutting insert is reversible and indexable. The round cutting insert is removably received in an insert receiving pocket in a tool body wherein the insert receiving pocket includes a plurality of dimples for receiving one of the plurality of first projections or the plurality of second projections. This arrangement prevents rotation of the round cutting insert while mounted in the insert receiving pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Lewis Ray Morrison, Kumar Reddy Mylavaram Nikhilesh, Thomas Jerry Long, Jeffrey Francis Kovac, Suresh Mali
  • Patent number: 8573901
    Abstract: A cutting insert rotated about its axis may be utilized during a metalworking operation and applied against the rotating workpiece to enhance tool performance. The cutting insert is secured within a toolholder having features to secure the insert but at the same time make for efficient removal of the insert from the toolholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Ruy Frota de Souza Filho, Adam South, Gregory A. Hyatt, Paul Brown, Linn Andras, Ted R. Massa, Nitin Chaphalkar