Abstract: Improvements in tooling for machining systems that utilize machining fluids comprising a supercritical fluid are disclosed. In some embodiments a tool may include a plurality of orifices configured to direct a supercritical machining fluid towards a cutting interface of the tool. In other embodiments, a tool holder may include one or more outlets configured to direct a supercritical machining fluid towards a cutting interface. Moreover, some embodiments, may relate to machining systems including one or more venting channels configured to provide pressure relief for a cavity located behind a tool holder. Embodiments related to machine tools including upstream fluid restrictions for controlling a flow of supercritical machining fluid through a tool are also disclosed.

Abstract: A tool body (12) for a shell end mill (10) is described with at least one helical chip guiding groove (24) arranged at the circumference of the tool body (12) for chip dissipation and at least two receptacles (28) for indexable cutting inserts (26) arranged at the chip guiding groove (24). In this case, the receptacles (28) each comprise a base surface having a bore for receiving an indexable cutting insert fastening screw (34) and at least one first abutment surface adjacent to the base surface. The transition between the base surface and the first contact surface is a groove. In addition, a cutting tool is described with such a tool body, wherein a two-sided indexable cutting insert (26) is attached in each receptacle (28).

Abstract: A cutting insert and a shoulder milling tool are disclosed. The cutting insert includes a surface-wiping secondary cutting edge inclined in relation to a median plane of the cutting insert, such that a distance to the median plane decreases in a direction toward a corner cutting edge. A circumferential surface includes a clearance surface extending along a main cutting edge. The clearance surface along the main cutting edge extends at an acute angle to the median plane, such that the clearance surface forms a negative nominal clearance angle, and wherein the circumferential surface includes first and second abutment surfaces configured for abutment against axial and/or radial support surfaces of the milling tool, the abutment surfaces extending along at least part of the main cutting edge and the surface-wiping secondary cutting edge.

Abstract: There is provided a cutting insert which is capable of cutting by using either one of both surfaces and is stably supported by a tool body. Each of a first end surface and a second end surface of a cutting insert includes a first inclined surface which is inclined from a diagonal line by which a corner portion connecting a first peripheral side surface and a second peripheral side surface and a corner portion connecting a third peripheral side surface and a fourth peripheral side surface are joined toward a corner portion connecting the first peripheral side surface and the fourth peripheral side surface such that a distance to an imaginary plane decreases, and a second inclined surface which is inclined from the diagonal line toward a corner portion connecting the second peripheral side surface and the third peripheral side surface such that a distance to the imaginary plane decreases.

Abstract: An indexable cutting tool in which cutting ability can be ensured while suppressing the occurrence of chatter vibration. In outer circumferential blades provided on a tool main body, the axial rake angles are all set to the same angle, and so are the radial rake angles. With this configuration, the cutting ability of an indexable cutting tool can be ensured. Furthermore, the disposing intervals, in the circumferential direction of the tool main body, of the plurality of outer circumferential blades that are provided in, at least, a first groove of a plurality of groove are set to unequal values. With this configuration, it is possible to make the intervals at which the outer circumferential blades adjoining in the axis direction contact a workpiece unequal, suppressing resonance of periodic vibration occurring in cutting and, thus, suppressing the occurrence of chatter vibration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool head for a rotary tool. The tool head extends along, and rotates about, a rotational axis in a rotational direction during operation. The tool head is designed for replaceable fastening on a carrier shank of the rotary tool and comprises on the back thereof a coupling surface comprising a first serration having a plurality of ribs running parallel to one another and grooves running parallel to one another. The first serration comprises at least two part-serrations oriented toward one another in the rotational direction at an angle. Each part-serration having a plurality of ribs and grooves running parallel, for centering the tool head relative to the carrier shank. The invention furthermore relates to a rotary tool having such a tool head.

Abstract: A drilling and milling tool (100) for a metallic workpiece, with a drilling and milling shank (120) having a plurality of circumferentially-cutting cutter tips (151, 152, 153, 154) and a plurality of front-end-cutting cutter tips (131, 132). At least one of the front-end-cutting cutter tips (132) is, at the same time, a circumferentially-cutting cutter tip whose radially outermost cutting point or cutting edge section projects, in the radial direction (R), beyond the circumferentially-cutting cutter tips (151 152, 153, 154). The circumferentially-cutting cutter tips (151, 152, 153, 154) are made with straight cutting edges and together these cutting edges produce a cylindrical cut contour. Two methods that can be carried out with the drilling and milling tool (100) for producing a through-going bore in a metallic workpiece.

Abstract: A cutting insert having two end surfaces and a peripheral surface, the end surfaces located on opposite sides of a mid-plane, each end surface having three primary apexes and three secondary apexes. Six cutting portions are formed along the intersection of the peripheral surface and the end surfaces. Each cutting portion has a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge extending transversely thereto. A ramping cutting edge extends between the second cutting edge of each cutting portion and the first cutting edge of an adjacent cutting portion. The peripheral surface has a clearance surface extending from each of the second cutting edges towards the mid-plane. The abutment planes of the insert are parallel to the mid-plane. Each of the first cutting edges lies between an adjacent abutment plane and adjacent primary apex.

Abstract: A cutting insert includes two supporting surfaces and four side surfaces located between the two supporting surfaces. Each side surface intersects with two other side surfaces of the four side surfaces to form four corners. The four side surfaces intersect with the two supporting surfaces to form, at two of the four corners, four cutting corners, each cutting corner including a first and a second cutting edge component, and to form, at two other ones of the four corners, four non-cutting corners. Each supporting surface includes a surface portion and an angled supporting surface. A plane of the angled supporting surface intersects with a plane of the surface portion along a line of intersection and forms a non-zero angle with the plane of the surface portion. A toolholder and a cutting tool are also disclosed.

Abstract: A single-sided ramping milling insert for ramping operations has top and bottom surfaces and a peripheral surface which extends therebetween. The peripheral surface meets the top and bottom surfaces at respective top and bottom edges. The top edge includes two opposite side cutting edges, two opposite ramping cutting edges, two diagonally opposite raised corner cutting edges and two diagonally opposite associated lowered corner cutting edges. The lowered corner cutting edges are closer to the bottom surface than the raised corner cutting edges. The bottom edge has two diagonally opposite bottom corner edges. The lowered corner cutting edges and the bottom corner edges are convexly curved and a depression is recessed into the peripheral surface between each lowered corner cutting edge and its associated bottom corner edge, the depression configured for providing relief from a convex workpiece surface cut by the lowered corner cutting edge during ramping operations.

Abstract: A cutting insert (14) is formed with an insert aperture (32) opening out to insert top and bottom surfaces (14A, 14B) of the cutting insert (14). In a plan view of the insert top surface (14A), the cutting insert (14) and the insert aperture (32) both have oblong shapes which are elongated along a common insert longitudinal axis (AIL). The aperture (32) includes first and second side surfaces (32A1, 32A2) which each extend along the insert longitudinal axis (AIL), and aperture first and second end surfaces (32B1, 32B2) which each extend transverse relative to the insert longitudinal axis (AIL). At least one of the aperture first and second end surfaces (32B1, 32B2) is formed with a clamping lip (32C1, 32C2).

Abstract: A cutting tool has a main tool body and at least one insert seat disposed thereon. The seat has a bottom surface for mounting a cutting insert, and further has a dowel pin, which penetrates a through-hole of the mounted cutting insert and the bottom surface and can be fixed to the main tool body. A center longitudinal axis of the fixed dowel pin is arranged at an acute angle with respect to the bottom surface. The dowel pin contains a spherical segment for mounting on a bearing surface of the through-hole. The surface of the spherical segment is interrupted by a segment groove.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert removably secured to a tool body by a fastening member. The cutting insert includes a clamping bore having at least two upper and at least two lower clamping portions intersecting a first and a second horizontal plane, respectively, the first and second horizontal planes being perpendicular to a central axis and spaced apart from each other, and the clamping bore being non-circular at cross-sections taken in the first and second horizontal planes. Upper and lower imaginary lines tangential to the at least two upper and the at least two lower clamping portions, respectively, form zero or acute first and second clamping angles with the central axis, the first and second clamping angles being different. Exactly two upper and exactly two lower clamping portions are in simultaneous clamping contact with an equal number of corresponding clamping zones on the fastening member.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: A rotary cutting tool is provided with a tool body having a shank portion and a neck portion, an insert attachment seat formed at the tip of the neck portion, and a cutting insert detachably mounted on the insert attachment seat so as to be coaxial with the axis line of the shank portion. The insert attachment seat is provided with a bottom surface on which a side surface which serves as a seating surface of a cutting insert is seated and a wall surface in contact with a peripheral surface of the cutting insert. On the bottom surface, a plurality of recessed grooves which are recessed from the bottom surface to extend in the circumferential direction of the neck portion, with the both ends being opened on an outer peripheral surface of the neck portion.

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.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool for machining a workpiece, comprising a tool body, a cutting tool, and fastening means for fastening the cutting tool in a receiving recess of the tool body, the cutting tool having a cutting edge and a cutting-tool through-bore, and the tool body having a tool-body through-bore that opens into the receiving recess, wherein the fastening means comprises a clamping bushing that is provided with an internal thread, and comprises a clamping screw that is provided with an external thread corresponding to the internal thread of the clamping bushing, which are inserted into the cutting-tool bore or into the tool-body bore from opposing sides in order to fasten the cutting tool to the tool body, the clamping bushing is screwed directly to the clamping screw, irrespective of whether it is inserted into the cutting-tool bore or into the tool-body bore, and anti-rotation means are provided to prevent the clamping bushing from rotating about its longitudinal axis when being screwe

Abstract: The invention related to a milling tool (1) for machining work pieces, comprising at least one blade that is arranged in a radial manner on the milling head (2) that is rotationally mounted on a rotationally symmetrical designed Y-axis (4) on the milling head. According to the invention, said indexable cutting insert (2) is arranged below a tolerance play (7) in a freely rotating manner on the free end (8) of a mounting pin (9) secured in a detachable manner to the milling head (3) below the clamping seat. The freely rotationally mounted indexable cutting insert (2) is mounted or surrounded on the entire surface of the rear side (10) and on certain pats on the front side (11) such that the mounting pin (9) does not detach itself from the material (12) of the milling head (3).

Abstract: A double-sided cutting insert may generally comprise: a top surface; a bottom surface; at least one side surface interconnecting the top surface and the bottom surface and forming at least one cutting edge; a through hole extending between the top surface and bottom surface; and wherein each of the top surface and bottom surface comprise an anti-rotation element comprising a single recess comprising a generally cyclic conical periphery. Each of the top surface and bottom surface may comprise at least one cyclic conical face. The recess may comprise a geometry that is complementary to the at least one cyclic conical face of the projection in an insert receiving pocket in a tool holder. A cutting tool incorporating one or more of the cutting inserts, and methods of making and using the cutting inserts are also described.

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.

Abstract: A cutting edge-replaceable cutting tool includes a tool body, and a cutting insert is removably installed on the tool body. The cutting tool-replaceable cutting tool includes an insert mounting seat formed on the tool body and on which the cutting insert is mounted, and a upper wall portion formed integrally with the tool body and overhanging the insert mounting seat.

Abstract: A milling tool for slot milling includes a tool body and a plurality of separated first seats, which form root insert seats for root inserts arranged one after the other along a first line and a plurality of separated flank insert seats that includes a plurality of second seats for flank inserts . The plurality of second seats is arranged one after the other along a second line on a primary side of the root insert seats. A plurality of third seats for flank inserts is arranged one after the other along a third line on a secondary side of the root insert seats. Each flank insert seat includes a bottom surface, an inner side surface, and an outer side surface. Each flank insert includes an under side, an opposite upper side, and a circumferential edge side that forms a rake face connecting the upper side and the underside.

Abstract: A triangular cutting insert has first and second surfaces, a midplane, a peripheral surface, with an insert center axis. The peripheral surface has alternating relief flanks and corners. A major cutting edge formed between each relief flank and the first and second surfaces, connects at a corner to a wiper edge included in a bounding plane of the insert. The wiper edge further connects to a transitional slope directed toward the midplane and an adjacent major cutting edge. Viewed along the insert center axis, an insert footprint is symmetrical to each corner bisector, and each major cutting edge is perpendicular to the associated secondary slope. Viewed perpendicular to the bisector, the relief flank is in a peripheral plane, and the transitional slope is between the peripheral plane and the insert center axis. Viewed along the corner bisector, each visible major cutting edge forms a first angle with the bounding plane.

Abstract: A toolholder for holding a plurality of types of removable cutting inserts is provided. The toolholder includes a toolholder body having an insert-receiving recess. The recess includes an insert abutment surface for abutting a corresponding insert supporting surface of an insert. The insert abutment surface includes a first portion that abuts a first insert supporting surface of a first type of cutting insert and a second portion abuts a second insert supporting surface of a second type of cutting insert.

Abstract: A milling insert (1) for chip removing machining, has a positive basic geometry, including at least three main cutting edges (H1-H3) and three associated minor cutting edges (B1-B3), the milling insert (1) on the underside (L1) thereof being provided with at least two, mutually intersecting, sets of rectilinear grooves/notches, the sets of grooves/notches defining essentially pyramidal projecting parts (P), the sets of grooves/notches intersecting opposite side surfaces (S1-S6) of the milling insert (1). A face milling cutter equipped with such milling inserts is described. Characteristic of the milling insert (1) is that when the milling insert is seen in a planar view, the rectilinear direction (R1-R3) defined by each set of grooves/notches forms a right angle with the tangent of a minor cutting edge (B1-B3).

Abstract: A cutting insert has polygonal first and second end surfaces which are connected by a peripheral side surface, each end surface defining first and second end planes, respectively. The peripheral side surface has first peripheral side portions alternated in the circumferential direction with second peripheral side portions. The first peripheral side portions are inverse copies of the second peripheral side portions. Each peripheral side portion includes first and second sub-faces which form different angles with the first and second end planes. The first and second sub-faces intersect one another between the first and second end planes to form a line which is parallel to the first and second end planes.

Abstract: An upper surface of a cutting insert includes a first rake face and a second seating surface. A lower surface of the cutting insert includes a second rake face and a first seating surface. The cutting edge includes a first cutting edge portion formed at a crossing edge line portion between the first rake face and a flank face and a second cutting edge portion formed at a crossing edge line portion between the second rake face and the flank face. The first cutting edge portion and the crossing edge line portion between the first seating surface and the flank face are positioned opposite each other. The second cutting edge portion and the crossing edge line portion between the second seating surface and the flank face are positioned opposite each other.

Abstract: An indexable cutting insert has first and second side surfaces and a peripheral surface extending therebetween. The peripheral surface has identical peripheral faces, each divided into two identical first and second cutting sections. Each cutting section has a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge, a corner cutting edge which extends between the first and second cutting edges and a rake surface having a planar rake surface flat forming an engagement surface. The rake surface meets the first side surface at the first cutting edge. The rake surface flat meets the second side surface at a rake surface open edge. On each peripheral face, the two cutting sections are non-coplanar. Each two rake surface flats associated with first cutting sections converge in a direction along an insert axis and the cutting edges are raised above the rake surface flat.

Abstract: A milling cutter includes a shank and upper portion with an insert pocket. The insert pocket includes a bottom surface, a radial support wall and an axial support wall. A cutting insert includes a hole extending from a bottom surface. A tapered pin includes a lower portion and a tapered upper portion. A spring engages the lower portion of the tapered pin and provides an upward biasing force on the tapered pin. A center axis of the tapered pin is closer to the radial support wall than a center axis of the hole of the cutting insert such that the tapered pin exerts pressure against the hole of the cutting insert to cause one of the side walls of the cutting insert to be forced against the radial support wall of the insert pocket when the cutting insert is mounted in the insert pocket.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert removably secured to a tool body by a fastening member. The cutting insert includes a clamping bore having at least two upper and at least two lower clamping portions intersecting a first and a second horizontal plane, respectively, the first and second horizontal planes being perpendicular to a central axis and spaced apart from each other, and the clamping bore being non-circular at cross-sections taken in the first and second horizontal planes. Upper and lower imaginary lines tangential to the at least two upper and the at least two lower clamping portions, respectively, form zero or acute first and second clamping angles with the central axis, the first and second clamping angles being different. Exactly two upper and exactly two lower clamping portions are in simultaneous clamping contact with an equal number of corresponding clamping zones on the fastening member.

Abstract: A grooving tool body for holding a number of inserts for use in forming one or more grooves in a wall of a bore when the tool body is rotated about a first axis and simultaneously circularly interpolated about a second axis. The tool body includes a generally cylindrical portion disposed generally about the first axis and having a first end and an opposite second end, the first end being structured to be mounted to a machine tool for simultaneously rotating the tool body about the first axis and circularly interpolating the second end about the second axis. The tool body further includes a number of pockets disposed at or about the opposite second end of the generally cylindrical portion. Each pocket of the number of pockets is structured to receive and couple therein a cutting insert for forming one or more grooves in wall of the bore.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cutter assembly (100), said cutter assembly (100) comprises a back plate (101) adapted to mount on a machine spindle, wherein said back plate (101) having stepped portion (201) on its surface. The stepped portion (201) of the back plate (101) comprises plurality of oblong slots (202) and locating surfaces (203) at predetermined locations in its outer circumference. A cutter ring (102) adapted mount on outer circumference of the stepped portion (201) of the back plate (101) and a fastening members (103) to connect said cutter ring (102) with the back plate (101).

Abstract: A cutter-tooling assembly has a tool holder and a cutter. The tool holder has an inserted section and a through hole axially formed through the inserted section. The through hole has a fixing segment. The fixing segment has an inner surface and multiple recesses formed around the inner surface of the fixing segment at intervals. The cutter is inserted into the through hole of the tool holder and has a fixing end. The fixing end has an outer surface and multiple corners formed on the outer surface of the fixing end and abutting the recesses. Because the fixing segment has the multiple recesses which the corners of the cutter abut, the combination of the recesses and the corners can prevent a relative rotation between the tool holder and the cutter and make the cutter securely connected with the tool holder.

Abstract: A cutting head (14) for a T-slot cutter (10) includes opposing cutting head top and intermediate surfaces (18, 20) extending perpendicular to a head rotation axis (A), and a head peripheral surface (22) extending therebetween. The cutting head (14) also includes cutting portions (24) located along the head peripheral surface (22) and a head protrusion (32). The head protrusion (32) extends from the cutting head intermediate surface (20) and includes a head torque-transfer portion (42). The cutting head (14) further includes a cutting head abutment surface (34), and a head bore (36) coaxial with the head rotation axis (A). The head bore (36) extends between, and opens out to, the cutting head top surface (18) and the head protrusion (32). The cutting head (14) also includes a head centering portion (40) distinct from the head torque-transferring portion (42) and located at an axial position different therefrom, along the head rotation axis (A).

Abstract: A cutting insert of the present invention includes a side face having an upper concave portion which is located between an upper face and a lower face and extends up to the upper face, and a plurality of divided upper cutting edges which are located at the intersection of the upper face and the side face, and are divided by the upper concave portion. Each of these divided upper cutting edges includes a first end and a second end, and is inclined being closer to the lower face from the first end toward the second end. The plurality of divided upper cutting edges include a first divided upper cutting edge and a second divided upper cutting edge adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A milling head for use in conjunction with a rotary milling tool that is utilized to perform an operation on a tube, preferably of a tube bank or tube wall of a boiler system. The milling head is utilized to remove material or film from the outer diameter of a tube, or place a bevel on a tube end, or both. In one embodiment, the milling head includes at least one outer diameter milling element and at least one bevel milling element that are adjustable in relation to each other as well as the milling head body. Methods for milling a tube are also described.

Abstract: An indexable insert for a milling tool that includes at least one mounting surface having a through bore for fixing the insert to a rotatable tool, a rounded cutting edge defined by at least one cutting face and a lateral surface, and the at least one cutting face being arranged on a lateral side of the insert and extending from a base. The base is angled with respect to the at least one mounting surface. This abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: A milling tool for working non-metal materials, in particular wood, engineered wood, and plastic, includes a carrier body, a plurality of cutting elements, which can be inserted into said body on the periphery in a corresponding number of openings extending in the radial direction and can be screwed to the carrier body by way of a bore and which have a plate-shaped and in the cross-section a substantially triangular-shaped design and on a side edge are provided with a blade. The cutting element includes: a) the region located opposite of the blade is rounded, b) a groove extending substantially at a right angle to the blade is provided in the bottom, c) the bore divides the groove preferably into two regions.

Abstract: An indexable milling insert, including an upperside, an underside parallel to an imaginary reference plane, and two cutting edges. Each cutting edge includes a cutting edge line and is formed between a chip surface included in the upperside and a first clearance surface extending between the upperside and the underside, the first clearance surface forming an acute, nominal first clearance angle (?) with a normal to the reference plane. Each cutting edge includes a main edge, which is at least partly convexly curved as viewed in plane elevation from above, and which extends from an initial end, which determines the maximal cutting depth of the milling insert, to a corner edge having a radius of curvature that is smaller than the radius of curvature of the main edge, the main edge rising in the direction from the initial end toward the corner edge such that the distance thereof to the underside successively increases in the direction.

Abstract: An indexable type cutting tool includes a drill having a shank and a drill body which extends from the shank, the drill body being defined with body flutes, and being formed with an insert seat which has seat side surfaces and a seat bottom surface and body flank surfaces and body thinning surfaces; a drill insert fitted into the insert seat of the drill body, having cutting edges and an insert bottom surface which is brought into close contact with the seat bottom surface, formed with insert flutes and insert side surfaces which are brought into close contact with the seat side surfaces, and defined with a through-hole which passes through the insert side surfaces; and a fastening screw for fastening the drill insert fitted into the insert seat to the drill.

Abstract: A brush cutting head having internally housed drive and bearing assemblies which can be easily attached/detached from the brush cutter housing without having to dismantle the drive assembly for improved productivity. The brush cutting head includes a hollow support body, a drive and bearing assembly housed at least partially within the hollow of the support body, a drive block mounted to extend within the hollow of the support body, and a motor provided with a torque transmitting driveshaft.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to brush cutting heads, and more specifically, to protective guard members for cutting tooth assemblies mounted on brush cutting heads. A brush cutting head includes a support body having a first end, an opposed second end and an intermediate portion extending therebetween. The intermediate portion has an outer surface. A plurality of collars is mounted to the support body at spaced intervals along the intermediate portion with each collar extending outwardly from the outer surface. The brush cutting head further also has a plurality of cutting teeth assemblies carried on the outer surface of the support body. Each cutting tooth assembly is associated with at least one collar. Also provided is at least one guard member for protecting at least one cutting tooth of the plurality from impacts with hard objects. The at least one guard member is carried on one of the collars with at least a portion thereof projecting beyond the outermost edge of the one collar.

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.

Abstract: A cutting tool for machining metallic materials has at least one cutting portion having a cartridge and a cartridge pocket for mounting cutting inserts to the cutting tool. The cartridge pocket has a top surface, a rear supporting surface and a bottom supporting surface. The top surface of the cartridge pocket has one or more serrated projecting portions. The cartridge has an insert pocket, a top surface, a first side surface and a bottom surface. The insert pocket of the cartridge receives a cutting insert. The top surface of the cartridge has one or more outwardly sloped surfaces and one or more inwardly sloped surfaces. The outwardly sloped surfaces mate with the serrated projecting portions. The inwardly sloped surfaces have a gap with respect to the projecting portions of the cartridge pocket.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cutting tool for milling works which employs a cutting insert. The cutting tool for milling works employs a cutting insert. By forming a concave nick cutting edge on the lateral surface of the cutting insert, it may cut a chip in a short form in case of high depth of cutting to shorten the effective cutting edge, so as to reduce a friction and a cutting resistance, thereby increasing the life span of the cutting tool as well as to facilitate a chip disposal and reduce the cutting resistance, so as to increase a feed rate at a high depth of cutting, thereby enhancing the productivity of the cutting works. By forming concave recesses on the upper and lower surfaces of the cutting insert it may reduce the cutting resistance between the chip being short cut by the concave nick cutting edge and the upper and lower surfaces.

Abstract: The invention related to a milling tool (1) for machining work pieces, comprising at least one blade that is arranged in a radial manner on the milling head (2) that is rotationally mounted on a rotationally symmetrical designed Y-axis (4) on the milling head. According to the invention, said indexable cutting insert (2) is arranged below a tolerance play (7) in a freely rotating manner on the free end (8) of a mounting pin (9) secured in a detachable manner to the milling head (3) below the clamping seat. The freely rotationally mounted indexable cutting insert (2) is mounted or surrounded on the entire surface of the rear side (10) and on certain pats on the front side (11) such that the mounting pin (9) does not detach itself from the material (12) of the milling head (3).