Mitsubishi Kinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Sueji Takaya

Hideo Negishi

Kaoru Goto

Hiroshi Shimomura

Kazuo Iizuka

An insert rotary cutter for processing a metal workpiece includes a cutter body having an axis of rotation therethrough. The cutter includes at least one cutter insert releasably mounted on an outer periphery of the body. The insert is of a generally polygonal shape having a curved front face. The front face has a pair of opposed marginal ridges serving as respective main cutting edges. The front face has marginal portions disposed adjacent and extending along the main cutting edges, and the marginal portions serve as respective rake surfaces for the main cutting edges. Each of the rake surface is convexly curved as viewed from a respective one of the main cutting edges and is concavely curved as viewed along a respective one of the main cutting edges.

Insert rotary cutter

A drill bit comprises a body having a shank portion and an end face at its forward end. The drill bit body has at the forward end a cutting means having at least one cutting edge provided on the end face. The cutting edge is spaced from the axis of rotation of the body. The body has a rake surface which terminates in the cutting edge and extends along the axis of rotation.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Sueji Takaya