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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1989
Stephen P Stiffler, New Enterprise, PA (US);
Ray C MacIntyre, Alum Bank, PA (US);
Daniel C Sheirer, Bedford, PA (US);
Wayne H Beach, Roaring Spring, PA (US);
Kennametal Inc., Latrobe, PA (US);
Abstract
A rotatable cutting tool having a tool body with a socket contained in the forward end thereof wherein a hard insert is affixed to the tool body within the socket. The hard insert comprises an integral tip portion and an integral cylindrical flange portion joined to the tip portion by integral mediate portion. An integral boss projects from the bottom surface of the flange portion wherein the boss is of a generally frusto-conical shape which corresponds to the generally frusto-conical volume defined by the socket. A plurality of bumps projects from the bottom surface of the flange portion and the frusto-conical surface of the boss to provide for a braze joint of uniform thickness between the hard insert and the tool body.