Walter Ag

Montanwerke Walter Gmbh

Siegfried Deiss

Willy Schlotterer

Siegfried Bohnet

Werner Grafe

Thomas Schneider

Rolf Vollmer

Hans Peter Durr

Rolf Huber

Friedrich Hoffmann

To form undercut grooves in a work piece, especially to retain turbine rotor blades, in a first step, the grooves are cut such that the flanks of the grooves have a preliminarily desired shape; then, in a second step, a bell-type countersink is moved radially to cut the desired shape of the flanks of the groove. Countersink cutters for the second step include a plurality of groups of cutting bits or inserts secured to posts on a shell, or bell-type countersink, in accordance with the profile to be cut.

Tool for the production of arc-shaped grooves

A cutting bit formed as a round plate for a material removal tool has a base body, which is defined by a bottom face, a top opposite it and spaced apart from it, and a side face between them. The side face, with a chip face located on the top, defines a circular cutting edge. For securing the bit, a central opening which can receive a securing screw, for instance, is provided. To secure the cutting bit in a tool body in a manner fixed against relative rotation, a plurality of depressions, for instance, are provided on the top of the cutting bit and can be engaged by a clamping claw supported on the tool body. Circumferential forces engaging the cutting bit are diverted by way of these depressions, thus preventing torsion or twisting of the cutting bit.

Interlocking, or form fitting cutting bit or chip

To support an indexable cutting insert (6a) cutting with an end edge and facing edge (7a) as well as circumferentially, with respect to both axially acting forces as well as radially acting forces, the tool body (1) is formed with an abutment surface (17) to accept radially directed forces against which the insert can be clamped; to accept axially directed forces, a holding screw (25) passing through an opening (22, 23) in the insert is formed with an accurately machined portion (28) fitting into an accurately machined portion (29) of a reception bore (27) for the screw, so that the holding screw, itself, acts as an accurately placed axial support for the insert (6a).

Rotary cutting tool with axially precision positioned end cutting inserts

To permit resharpening of cutter blades of a helical milling cutter, the cutter blades or bits of a multi-bit cutter have decreasing thickness, and are placed in grooves having the same helix radius, but the centers of the helical axes offset from the center of rotation of the cylindrical cutter body in the direction towards the associated groove, so that cutter blades of lesser thickness are still seated firmly in the bottom of the respective groove. Upon dulling of the cutters, the thinnest one of the cutter blades is discarded, the thickest one only replaced and the worn blades moved up one step along the circumference of the body into grooves which are progressively more shallow, to compensate for decrease in thickness of the respective cutter bits upon regrinding to resharpen the bits.

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Siegfried Deiss