Abstract: A slotting tool body includes a disc-like cutter portion and a shank portion projecting rearwardly therefrom. The cutter portion includes a resilient clamping portion having a peripherally disposed insert receiving slot. The shank portion includes a peripherally disposed forward shank recess that is axially adjacent the cutter portion. A radially inward portion of the insert receiving slot merges in the rearward direction with the forward shank recess. A cutting insert is releasably and resiliently clamped in the insert receiving slot to form a rotary slot cutting tool. The cutting insert includes two cutting portions that each include a long and short insert lateral extension, the long insert lateral extension being longer than the short insert lateral extension. The longest insert lateral extensions are orated on opposite sides of the cutting insert.

Abstract: A tool assembly for heavy duty machining includes an insert, tool and clamp for securing the insert to a rigid insert seat of the tool. The insert is a solid cutting insert including a single cutting edge located at a corner region thereof. At a diagonally opposed corner region the insert is not subjected to clamping forces.

Abstract: A lawnmower uses thin, replaceable blades with a hardened cutting edge and a cross-section defining an airfoil retained in cartridges that are inserted and removed from rotors in a blade assembly at need. The cartridges comprise a blade and rotor interlocking elements affixed to the blade, each rotor interlocking element corresponding to one rotor in the blade assembly. Each rotor and rotor interlocking element includes features that allow the two to be securely engaged so that the rotors may be spun quickly in a mower blade assembly to cut grass.

Abstract: A groove insert to be received in a tool holder has, along its top and bottom side and on its rear side, a holding structure which is formed by holding faces which taper toward one another and by way of which the groove insert is fixed in the tool holder in a positive locking manner. The tool holder has corresponding counter faces. The groove insert and the tool holder form a groove cutting tool.

Abstract: Clamping holder for cutting inserts has a rigid holding part and a clamping finger elastically movable with respect to the rigid holding part that define opposite sides of a substantially U-shaped recess for receiving a cutting insert. One of these two sides has first and second spaced-apart contact points for one side of a cutting insert and the opposite side has a third contact point. A stop for limiting the insertion depth of the cutting inset into the recess is provided inside the recess. That side of the cutting insert that has the third contact point is additionally assigned the stop, which is configured such that it simultaneously acts as a further, fourth lateral contact point opposite the first and second contact points and as a stop for limiting the insertion depth of the cutting insert.

Abstract: A method involves creating a recess in a surface of a part so the recess is adjacent a portion of the part, thereafter forming a coating on the surface of the part with a portion of the coating being disposed in the recess, and thereafter removing material of the portion of the part with a tool. According to a different aspect, an apparatus includes a recess-forming section that forms a recess in a surface of a part so the recess is adjacent a portion of the part, a coating section that forms a coating on the surface of the part with a portion of the coating disposed in the recess, and a material-removing section that subsequently removes material of the portion of the part with a tool.

Abstract: In a tool system for machining, having at least one receptacle for a cutting insert which can be brought at least partly with a bearing surface of convex curvature into contact with a supporting surface of concave curvature on the receptacle, the convexity and concavity of bearing surface and supporting surface, respectively, which face one another, define lines of curvature which are different from one another and of which at least one deviates from the circular form.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool, for example, a saw blade (1) with a base body (2) that has at least one bit seat in which an insert (7) is held. It is provided according to the invention that the base body (2) has at least one elastically deformable clamping element (3) that can be placed against the insert (7) with the aid of a control element (5) positioned in a recess of the base body (2) in order to hold the insert in the bit seat.

Abstract: A cutting tool assembly (10) having a body portion (12) and at least one cutting portion (14), the at least one cutting portion (14) having a clamping portion (16), an insert retaining member (18), a precisely located cutting insert (20) and a securing member (22) for ensuring that precise location of the cutting insert is maintained. If the insert-retaining member becomes damaged due to contact with a workpiece it can be removed from the cutting tool assembly and replaced.

Abstract: A cutting insert clamping mechanism for use in a cutting tool. The cutting tool has a body portion and a clamping portion. The clamping portion includes a base jaw and a clamping jaw. The clamping jaw has on its lower side a forward clamping surface separated by a recess from a rearward clamping surface. A first narrow bridge section connects the clamping jaw to the body portion of the cutting tool. A second narrow bridge section extends generally towards the rearward clamping surface. As a result of the two narrow bridge sections, the forward and rearward clamping surfaces can resiliently bend independently, and thereby are capable of applying independent clamping forces to the insert.

Abstract: A tool for cutting a predetermined molding pattern into a work piece as it is longitudinally advanced. A molding head is adapted to be mounted to the output shaft of a motor. The head is generally-circular and includes at least one arcuate cutout in its peripheral edge for receiving a generally-circular cutter unit. The arcuate cutout is greater than semicircular so that the center of the unit lies within the peripheral edge and is therby protected from radial travel. A bayonet-type fixture and an alognment screw are provided for engaging the cutter unit to the molding head whereby multiple devices protect the operator from violent disengagement of the cutter unit from the head during high speed cutting.

Abstract: Slot or track milling tool device wherein a number of inserts having an insignificant axial extension are arranged in seats at the peripheral portion of an essentially disc shaped tool holder body. The inserts, being of a per se known kind, have at least one abutment face arranged obliquely relative to the insertion direction of the insert. The abutment face in contact with an abutment portion at each seat of the tool holder body. Each such abutment portion being a tongue shaped portion integral with the tool holder body. For each tongue shaped portion, there is arranged a rotatable clamping device having a surface arranged in a cam or eccentric fashion. The rotatable clamping device is intended to displace the tongue shaped portions so that an abutment point thereon reaches an engagement with and remains in engagement with the obliquely rearwardly facing engagement surface of the insert.

Abstract: A rotary cutter head includes integral clamping members for releasably securing cutting blades in recesses formed in the cutter head. Each clamping member is formed with a free end portion which defines one side of the recess. An end of the clamping member located oppositely of the free end portion is integrally connected to the cutter head and defines a resilient hinge portion. The free end portion is resiliently biased by the integral hinge portion to a position which allows the blade to be slidably received in the recess. Threaded fasteners are operable to cause the free end portion to pivot about the hinge portion and to drive the free end portion toward an oppositely located side of the recess so as to clamp the blade in the recess.

Abstract: Saw blade, especially a circular saw blade, with replaceable tips wedged in recesses along the periphery of the blade, and held there by elastic forces. Inwards of each recess, but not connected with the recess, at least one tension distributing hole is provided. The contour of the blade body runs inwards from a line between the edges of the tips so far that the bottom of the contour lies farther from the line between the tips than the outer portion of the tension distributing holes, but closer to that line between the tips than the inner portion of said holes. With this arrangement the elastic wedging forces produce tangential tension stresses and only local compressive stresses.

Abstract: In an arrangement of an insert holder and a cutting insert, the insert (3) is received in a recess (2) in the insert holder and secured therein by clamping action between portions of the insert holder which define the recess. The recess for the insert (3) is defined in one direction by a substantially unyieldable portion formed with a straight guiding portion (4,5) coacting with a straight edge of the insert, and in the other direction by a nose-shaped resilient portion (8) formed with a shallow projection extending towards the straight guiding portion and having a defined top (12) of small extent in the direction of the recess. The cutting insert (3) comprises a shank (14) whose one side is formed with a guide ridge (15) adapted to seat on the guiding portion (4,5) of the recess (2) and whose opposite side comprises an inclined or bevelled portion (16) adjacent the free end of the shank (14).

Abstract: A one piece saw tooth insert for use in combination with a circular saw of the inserted bit type wherein said insert has a bit portion and a shank portion combined as a single piece, wherein the shank portion has a generally circular outer edge surface adapted to be received by a generally circular edge surface of said socket without any substantial deformation of said shank portion, and the bit portion has a generally circular outer edge surface adapted to be received by another circular edge surface on the socket, such that the bit portion is elastically deformed by being pivoted in the direction of the cutting edge of the insert to thereby lock the one piece insert in to the socket.

Abstract: A rotary slot cutting tool having a flat sided disc shaped body with a central bore, a plurality of apertures spaced about the periphery of the body each aperture having in it a cutting insert held in position by the shape of the aperture against radial movement, each aperture being shaped in such a manner that on the application of a force acting radially outwards on the circumference on the bore of the body, faces of the aperture are caused to spread apart to permit removal and replacement of the inserts in an axial direction. The invention further provides an insert for use in rotary and other slot cutting tools.

Abstract: A saw blade has a plurality of cutting members inserted into seatings in the blade body. The cutting members, in one example, are of sintered ceramic. A groove in one or both of the front and back surfaces of a cutting member cooperate with rib members on the blade body to give lateral location. The cutting members are gripped in the seatings, in one example by forcing over the front wall of a seating by driving in an oversize pin into an aperture at the bottom of a slot defining the front wall. In another example, cutting members and seatings have cooperating wedge formation to create a wedging action. A layer of synthetic resin adhesive is positioned between each cutting member and related seating. A very large reduction of noise during use occurs, and an increased productive life is obtained.

Abstract: A one piece saw tooth insert for use in combination with a circular saw of the inserted bit type wherein said insert has a bit portion and a shank portion combined as a single piece, wherein the shank portion has a generally circular outer edge surface adapted to be received by a generally circular edge surface of said socket without any substantial deformation of said shank portion, and the bit portion has a generally circular outer edge surface adapted to be received by another circular edge surface on the socket, such that the bit portion is elastically deformed by being pivoted in the direction of the cutting edge of the insert to thereby lock the one piece insert into the socket.

Abstract: The present invention is a rotary machining tool and a method of making it using an easily replaceable cutter element assembly. A circular saw is exemplary of a cutting tool which can be made using the present invention. The cutter element assembly comprises two portions. The first is an inverted, generally U-shaped clevis with spaced apart side portions that fit over the circumferential edge of a sawplate. The clevis has an upper portion which extends outwardly from the sawplate edge thereby defining a tooth retaining socket between the sawplate edge and the clevis. The side portions of the clevis are apertured to accept a pin for attachment to the sawplate which has a corresponding aperture. A buttress attached to the clevis normally bears against the leading edge of a gullet and prevents rearward rotation when in use. The second member is an insertable tooth having a head and an elongated tapered shank. The shank has a taper on its upper surface sufficient to form a self-releasing taper, usually between 3.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cutting tool assembly having a hard, wear resistant insert, a shim and a blade body. The shim has a rearwardly extending recess for receiving the insert. The insert abuts against a top, bottom and rear portion of the shim recess. The shim recess tapers toward the open end of the shim recess to springingly hold the insert. The blade body has a downwardly and rearwardly extending recess on a first end for receiving the shim and insert. The blade body recess is also inclined to the longitudinal axis of the blade body. The blade body recess tapers toward the blade body so as to wedgingly hold the shim and insert.

Abstract: Rotary slot cutting tools comprising disc shaped tools having cutting elements peripherally disposed on the discs. The cutting elements include chip forming means for narrowing the width of the chip below the width of slot being cut.

Abstract: Tool systems using replaceable cutting inserts and the insert for use in the systems wherein the tool holders have wedge shaped recesses for holding the inserts which are also wedge shaped and have shoulder means thereon that maintains the distance the cutting edge of the insert extends from the holder predetermined during operation of the system.

Abstract: Elastic mounting for the rod-shaped inserted tooth (1) of a circular saw on a blade body (2). A problem is to eliminate loosening and disengagement of teeth caused by an impact-like loading on teeth and occurring after a relatively short service life. A blade body (2) or a tooth (1) is provided with an elastic strip (5 or 6) whose spring force (H), together with the flattening force exerted by a locking rivet (4'), urges a tooth against those points (a and b) in its fitting notch which also receive the bearing forces exerted by a shearing force of sawing.

Abstract: A cutting tool having cutting teeth. The cutting teeth are formed on one end of inserts that are seated in slots provided in the body of the tool with the cutting teeth projected outwardly of the slots. The inserts are produced from a resilient material that is preset in a bowed configuration with the slots having substantially straight side walls. A relief opening is provided in the bottoms of the slots and the seated inserts are forced into an open, substantially straight position with a tail section that curls into the relief opening. Flanges provided on the inserts overlap the edges of one side wall of the slots to resist lateral displacement.

Abstract: A machine cutting tool comprising a holder into which replaceable cutting inserts may be inserted in a self-gripping manner. The holder and cuttng inserts each have two contact surfaces opposite each other of an approximate circular form about the center of rotation of the cuttng insert. When in working position, the contact surfaces are developed complementary to one another and provided with guides. The cutting insert can be inserted into the holder with its narrow side and can be securely locked by turning it in the direction of the force acting on the cutting edge during operation. A detachment of the cutting insert during operation is impossible. The cutting insert preferably has two diametrically opposite cutting edges.

Abstract: Rotary slot cutting tools comprising disc shaped tools having cutting elements peripherally disposed on the discs. The cutting elements include chip forming means for narrowing the width of the chip below the width of slot being cut.

Abstract: Improved apparatus is disclosed for positively locating and retaining disposable inserts of a slotting cutter. The apparatus is arranged such that inserts normally used in non-rotating cut-off, parting or grooving tools can be mounted in a relatively narrow substantially circular rotating cutter body, thereby permitting narrower slot formations than heretofore possible with such tools.