Fried. Krupp Gesellschaft MIT Beschrankter Haftung

Hendrikus Van Den Berg

Udo Konig

Norbert Reiter

A cutting tool, in particular of hard metal, which is coated with hard layers of titanium carbide, titanium carbonitride and/or titanium nitride and that has an outer thin layer of zirconium nitride. The thickness of this outer layer of zirconium nitride amounts to between 1 and 30%, preferably 1 to 10%, of the thickness of the base coating of titanium carbide, titanium carbonitride and/or titanium nitride.

Cutting tool

A coated hardmetal body comprised of a hardmetal core which contains cobalt as well as tungsten carbide and of an oxygen containing hard substance layer free of binder metal is disclosed whose hardmetal basic body has a zone at its surface which is 0.2 to 20 microns thick and which contains the CoWB phase in addition to the hardmetal components. It is of particular advantage for the binder metal free, oxygen containing hard substance layer to be composed of aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide or aluminum oxynitride. It is further provided that at least one further binder metal free hard substance layer of carbides, nitrides, borides and/or oxides is applied to the binder metal free hard oxide layer. The coated hardmetal body may advantageously be used as a cutting bit for machining metallic workpieces. The coated hardmetal body is produced by gas phase boration and subsequent hard substance coating according to the CVD process.

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Hendrikus Van Den Berg