Valenite, Inc.

Gte Valenite Corporation

Gte Valeron Corporation

Sandvik Limited

Sandvik Intellectual Property Ab

Kenneth G Noggle

Lee Reiterman

Yevgeny Kocherovsky

Brian D Hoefler

Michael Charron

Wayne Robinson

An indexable cutting insert includes at least two side edges each defining an indexable edge of the insert and at least two cutting teeth are on each indexable edge. The cutting insert includes locating means on a plane of the upper face and/or a plane of the lower face. When mounted on a material removal tool, the locating means cooperate with receivers on the working face of the material removal tool to constrain degrees of freedom of the cutting insert. Further, the mounted cutting inserts each locate the radial edge of the cutting teeth in the active position on a common circumference of a circle centered on an axis of rotation of the material removal tool. A mounting system per see is also disclosed as well as a method of removing material from a workpiece with the material removal tool.

Multiteeth indexable insert with locating means and material removal tool with same

An indexable insert has one or more recesses formed in a frontside or backside surface which receives a surface of the head of a locking screw. When mounted, the insert is forced against respective support surfaces of an insert pocket. The locking screw is threaded into a counterbored tap hole to engage the insert and provide side locating forces and clamping forces to secure the indexable insert in the insert pocket. More particularly, the indexable insert has a shaped surface recess that mates to a complimentarily-shaped surface on the head of a locking screw and secures the indexable insert in multiple dimensions to a seating surface. A material removal tool and a method of mounting the indexable insert are also disclosed.

Side locking insert and material removal tool with same

A cutting tool is provided and includes a plurality of cutting inserts located in respective insert pockets. The cutting inserts each include a top cutting plane with at least one cutting edge and a bottom support plane. The top cutting plane includes an engagement portion for mating with a respective engagement portion located in the respective insert pocket. A clamping wedge clamps the cutting insert against the respective insert pocket. A shear resistance created between the engagement portions of the cutting insert and the respective insert pocket during operation of the tool is greater than a centrifugal force created during operation of the cutting tool. In an exemplary embodiment, the engagement portions are shown as a plurality of serrations. The cutting tool is particularly useful in high speed milling operations.

Cutting tool with adjustable indexable cutting insert

The instant invention is directed to an adjustment device for a multiple insert cutting tool with adjusting elements using a wedge to adjust the position of an insert in a tool body pocket through an intermediate component having expansion elements. The intermediate component is disposed in a cavity which is at least partly contiguous with a pocket containing an insert. The intermediate component engages the insert to be adjusted and, when expanded, adjusts the position of the insert.

Cutting tool adjustment device

A milling tool includes a milling body and a plurality of insert-carrying cartridges mounted in the milling body. Each cartridge includes front and rear side surfaces which oppose leading and trailing walls of a pocket formed in the milling body. The cartridge also includes inner and outer flank surfaces which interconnect the front and rear side surfaces. The body includes a slot which opens into the front side surface at a location intermediate the ends of the cartridge, to divide the body into a rigid base portion and an expandable portion. The base portion has a seat for a cutting insert. A threaded hole is formed in the slot intermediate the slot ends to receive a threaded wedge screw. Tightening of the screw causes the expandable portion to be expanded into contact with the leading wall of the pocket and thereby push the base portion into tight contact with the trailing wall of the pocket. Accordingly, the cartridge is secured within the pocket by a tight frictional contact which resists chatter. The cartridge carries an adjusting screw to enable the cartridge to be adjusted in a direction along the axis of rotation of the milling body.

Milling cutter and insert-carrying cartridge for use therein

An insert providing an improved wiper on cutting edges that form the surface finish of a workpiece, wherein the cutting edge is a curve in a plane of the flank that forms the finish cutting edge, the curve having an apex proximate the common corner, the curve forming a wiper on the finish cutting edge at or closely proximate to the apex.

Milling insert

A rotatable cutting tool has a shank portion for coupling to a tool driving device and a cutting portion in which are retained plural replaceable cutting inserts, each insert having at least one cutting edge. The shank portion includes a mounting face for removeably supporting an insert mounting disk having plural recesses at the periphery thereof for receiving the replaceable inserts. Each recess provides at least one seating surface for an insert, and includes opposing face portions between which an insert is releasably retained. The disk includes a central bore and radial grooves, at least one radial groove connecting the central bore and each insert receiving recess. The disk includes a concave central portion surrounding the central bore. A clamping means secures the disk to the shank and is used to elastically deform the concavity of the disk, whereby clamping forces are built and relaxed on all inserts placed in the disk concurrently by adjustment of the clamping means.

Rotatable cutting tool

A fully indexable negative geometry polygonal insert uses an active cutting edge extending in a first direction from each corner of the polygon downwardly from an associated major polygonal surface of the insert along with a wiping or finishing cutting edge lying substantially in the plane of the associated major surface and extending in a second direction from the insert corner. The geometry of the cutting edge enables mounting of the insert to a milling cutter with negative axial rake, such that the cutting edge is substantially parallel to an axis of rotation of the cutting tool.

Milling cutter and insert therefor

An indexable cutting insert having a polycrystalline cutting edge along the entire periphery of the insert, comprising a top surface, a bottom surface and a side wall extending unbroken therebetween to form a body, said body comprised of a composite wafer of cemented carbide, polycrystalline material and cemented carbide material, a cutting edge formed of polycrystalline material, and a chip breaker rearward of the cutting edge, said chip breaker formed by removal of a portion of cemented carbide from the at least one of the top or bottom surface of the insert at the junction of the sidewall and the top or bottom surface.

Indexable inserts with polycrystalline cutting edge

An adjustable cartridge to be mounted in the end of a boring bar, the cartridge including an anvil rotatably affixed to said boring bar, said anvil including a pocket into which a indexable insert is affixed. The anvil is secured in an axially oriented slot which includes an arcuate seating face which includes a key and key way slot. Rotation of the anvil within the slot effects radial adjustment of the insert a key pin serves to pivotally secure the cartridge within the pocket. In addition, the level or back taper of the insert can be adjusted.

Adjustable boring bar

A cutting tool includes a rotary bar having an arcuate pocket in its side surface, and a segmental carrier arcuately slidable in the pocket to adjust the position of a cutting tip on a cutter blade. The carrier has a second arcuate pocket that slidably receives a segment-shaped shoe, such that the shoe can be arcuately adjusted to control or vary the back taper angle on the blade. The cutting blade is mounted flatwise on one face of the shoe, such that a corner tip on the blade projects beyond the profile of the rotary bar for use in reaming a hole in a workpiece. The adjustment axis of the shoe is coincident with the cutting tip on the reamer blade so that adjusting motions of the shoe do not disturb the position of the cutting tip achieved by arcuate adjustment of the carrier.

Cutting tool having a cutter cartridge adjustable around two adjustment

An insert having a cutting segment of a polycrystalline diamond or cubic boron wafered between two layers of a hard metal carbide is bonded into a pocket in a standard insert and machined to form a chip breaker having a clearance surface and expose the cutting edge of polycrystalline material integral with the cutting segment.

Chip control inserts with diamond segments

A drill is provided having a generally cylindrically shaped body. The body has a rear end structured to releasably connect with a torque transmitting machine in a conventional manner. The body has a forward end which is provided with diametrically opposed seats. Each seat releasably retains a cutting insert. Each cutting insert has a cutting edge projecting forwardly from the forward end of the body. Further, the cutting inserts are oriented so that one cutting edge is at a ten degree positive lead angle and the other cutting edge is at a five degree negative lead angle, the angles being measured normal to the center line of the drill. In operation, the drill is used to provide a bore hole in a workpiece, the bore hole having a predetermined perimeter. As the rotating drill contacts the workpiece, the cutting edges contact the workpiece in a predetermined, progressive manner which thereby creates a plurality of spaced apart circular notches of differing depth in the workpiece. The result is controlled, easily managed removal of chips of the material cut from the workpiece.

Drill tool

An adjustable cartridge to be mounted in a boring bar, the cartridge including an anvil rotatably affixed to said boring bar, said anvil including a pocket into which a lay-down indexable insert is affixed. The anvil is secured in an axially oriented slot which includes an arcuate seating face. Rotation of the anvil within the slot effects radial adjustment of the insert.

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West Bloomfield, MI, United States of America

Kenneth G Noggle