General Electric Company

William R Reed, Jr

Ranga Komanduri

Minyoung Lee

Lawrence E Szala

William Paul Minnear

Robert H Ettinger

David William Skelly

John L Walter

Bahram Keramati

Rangachary Komanduri

Morton P Casey, Jr

Wear resistant cutting tools are comprised of cutting tools implanted with at least one element selected from the group consisting of, chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, sulfur, indium, gallium and tin. The elements are implanted within the cutting tools in at least an effective amount to increase the wear resistance of the insert, up to an amount that does not substantially impair the hot hardness and toughness of the tool. In a method for lubricating the interface between a cutting tool and a workpiece in a lathe turning operation, at least one element selected from the group consisting of fluorine, bromine, iodine, sulfur, indium, gallium and tin are implanted in the tool. The elements are implanted so that the elements can lubricate the interface between the cutting edge and workpiece during turning without substantially impairing the hot hardness and toughness of the cutting tool. A workpiece is then shaped with the tool by metal removal, within a range of cutting speeds that cause the implanted element or elements to lubricate the interface.

Wear resistant cutting tools and shaping method

A cutting tool is monitored on-line by measuring the heat generation rate at the cutting edge and relating this to the condition of the cutting edge. A flow of fluid coolant contacts the back surface of the cutting tool and the coolant temperature rise is measured during the machining process. The temperature difference and its rate of rise or fall is a direct indication of the heat generation rate and is related to tool conditions such as excessive and rapid wear and breakage. In the case of inserts, coolant channels are formed in the reusable seat, and tool holder channels provide for flow of coolant to the seat.

Tool condition sensing by measuring heat generation rate at the cutting

An instrumented tool holder is described wherein a multicomponent force sensor embedded in said tool holder beneath the cutting insert is so oriented that the resultant of cutting forces applied to the cutting insert will pass through the approximate center of the force sensor during a machining operation.

Instrumented tool holder

The invention is an improvement in ledge tools in that the ledge, or cutting element, is made of alumina-base ceramic material.

Consumable ceramic ledge tool

An improved self-sharpening refractory metal cutting tool presenting an overhanging cutting element of width about equal to the depth of the cut to be taken and of maximum thickness equal to tolerable tool flank wear is provided with a plurality of grooves at least on the rake face of the over-hanging cutting portion, or cutting element, to guide the chip leaving the workpiece and to reduce the cutting forces. These chip-grooves are utilized in sequence as the cutting element is consumed lengthwise during the machining operation.

Self-sharpening tool constructions having chip-grooves

An improved self-sharpening refractory metal cutting tool presenting an overhanging cutting element of width about equal to the depth of the cut to be taken and of maximum thickness equal to tolerable tool flank wear is provided with a thin, chemically stable, chemically inert refractory coating metallurgically bonded to the rake face of the tool, at least on the rake face of the cutting element.

Self-sharpening coated tool constructions

A cutting insert presents clearance and rake faces constructed and dimensionally interrelated to provide a plurality of adjacent offset, substantially parallel, non-coplanar cutting edges. The offset is in the range of from about 0.010 to 0.100 inch and the planes along the clearance face, which include the cutting edges, form part of a series of steps defined by intersecting planes. Each of the angles between these intersecting planes has a value of at least about 90 degrees.

Cutting insert with means for simultaneously removing a plurality of

A self-sharpening refractory metal cutting tool presenting an overhanging cutting portion, i.e. a flange, or ledge, of width equal to (or slightly greater than) the depth of the cut to be taken and maximum thickness equal to tolerable tool flank wear is disclosed. This tool construction has special utility in a novel high-speed cutting method in which only the tool flange does the cutting in which operation the flange is worn away with the wear progressing lengthwise of the flange during which time the flange sequentially performs a roughing cut and then a finishing cut in a single pass.

High-speed metal cutting method and self-sharpening tool constructions

A dynamically stiffened rotary tool construction is disclosed. The preferred stiffening means are a pair of spaced, adjustable, rotatably-mounted cam followers.

Dynamically stiffened rotary tool system

A self-lubricating cemented carbide cutting tool of special utility in titanium machining having a copper coating bearing a film of copper iodide is provided by coating the tool with a layer of copper, heating to bond the copper to the cemented carbide and thereafter reacting the copper with iodine to form the film of desired thickness.

Self-lubricating cutting tool and method

A method comprising contacting a wetting liquid with the surface of a resin-bonded diamond grinding wheel, wetting and forming a film on the face of the resin component of the wheel surface, and grinding and resulting wetted wheel surface with a silicon carbide or silicon nitride ceramic body generating ceramic chips which adhere to said wetted resin face forming a slurry layer thereon which simultaneously dresses and conditions said wheel during grinding.

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Schenectady, NY, United States of America

William R Reed, Jr