Abstract: A drill having inner and outer indexable cutting inserts for forming a hole in a workpiece. The inner insert is positioned at a non-negative radial angle and is set out axially ahead of the outer insert to increase the service life of the inserts. Tungsten carbide wear strips are spaced angularly around the drill body to limit radial movement of the body and to prevent the body from wearing.

Abstract: A boring tool for working a small diameter bore in a workpiece having a shaft of circular cross-section comprising a clamping portion for supporting the tool and a neck portion extending forwardly therefrom. The forward end of the neck portion carries a cutting plate. The cutting plate is located entirely within the circular cross-section of the neck portion, except for a cutting point on such cutting plate which extends somewhat laterally beyond the circular cross-section of the neck portion. The neck portion has a channel of semicircular cross-section which spirals from the front end thereof toward the clamping portion of the shaft, the spiral being in the directions of rotation and of feed of the workpiece with respect to the tool. In a modification, a cuttings breaker is mounted to overlie the cutting plate, extends close to the cutting point and has an axially extending cuttings breaking channel running the length thereof parallel to the axis of the neck portion and opening toward the cutting plate.

Abstract: A boring bar having a removable indexable cutting insert with a plurality of cutting edges is disclosed. The cutting insert is held in place in the bar by a locking finger on an insert clamp which is locked into place by a ball which is wedged against a release pin that engages the clamp. The ball may be moved so as to allow the pin to move, thereby releasing the force applied by the clamp whenever the insert is to be indexed or whenever a replacement of the insert is required. This is achieved by either manual or hydraulic control of a wedge shaft that engages the ball.

Abstract: A cutting tool holder comprising an elongated holder body having a shaft receiving bore extending longitudinally therethrough, an elongated tool mounting shaft adapted to receive at least one cutting tool in a fixed position thereover and means for releasably retaining the mounting shaft in position within the holder body. The holder body is affixed to a metal removal or cutting machine by convenient conventional means with cutting tool positioned relative to a workpiece as desired. The holder may include means which permit a plurality of cutting tools to be simultaneously mounted on the shaft to accommodate the performance of a plurality of metal removal operations. The tool holder may also conveniently include a micrometer-like arrangement between the mounting shaft and holder body to provide indication means as to relative location of the cutting tool from a first normal position and means for supplying a continuous coolant fluid flow to the cutting tool.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a boring head having two support ledges and a cutter that may be rotated when the cutting edges become worn so as to provide new cutting edges. The cutter is developed as an irregular hexagon the sides of which form a section of the sides of two equilateral triangles which are superposed on each other around an acute angle. The boring head includes a recess for the cutter having contact surfaces against which at least one of rake surfaces behind the cutting edges will bear so as to fix the cutter in a predetermined operating position in which one of the cutting edges cooperates with the two support ledges to provide centering of the boring head in a bored hole.