Abstract:
A swing grinding fixture and process for using the same is disclosed that enables a conventional surface grinder to remanufacture a machine tool cutting insert by grinding a predetermined shape into the insert. A quick clamping insert holder coupled to a slide secures the tool insert in the fixture. A precision spindle cartridge is mounted in a rigid fixture body and coupled to the slide to provide the swing motion required to generate the radius to be ground. The rigid fixture body includes a pair of micrometer adjustable stops which limit the arc through which the slide may be swung and control the flank shape ground into the insert. In an alternative embodiment, a sine plate is attached to the fixture body and is used to incline the fixture to a predetermined insert rake angle. In operation, the grinding fixture is securely mounted to the table of a surface grinder and a cutting tool insert is secured in the insert holder. The grinding table is manipulated to align the grinding wheel with the axis of rotation of the spindle and the position of the insert is adjusted to manipulate the amount of material to be ground from the insert. The slide is then swung clockwise to contact one micrometer adjustable stop and counterclockwise to contact a second micrometer stop, whereby a predetermined radius, substantially equal to the radius of rotation, is ground into the edge of the tool insert.
Abstract:
An indexable insert for milling includes a metal base made of cemented carbide, and a cutting edge consisting of a sintered CBN compact and a flat drag type cutting edge which are brazed to the metal base or bonded thereto by integral sintering. A subcutting edge angle (.beta.), a negative land angle (.theta.) and a negative land width (L) are set at 30.degree. to 60.degree., 30.degree. to 45.degree. and 0.05 to 0.40 mm respectively, while the subcutting edge has a straight shape. Due to this structure, the indexable insert has excellent cutting performance particularly in face milling of parts which are made of gray cast iron, and the tool life can be extended.
Abstract:
A coated indexable cutting insert for wet and dry milling of cast irons is provided. The substrate of the insert is composed of a cemented tungsten carbide based composition containing about 5.7 to about 6.4 weight percent cobalt and about 2.9 to about 3.6 weight percent tantalum. The coating includes two coatings of differing composition. The first coating is selected from titanium carbide, titanium carbonitride, and titanium nitride. The second coating is alumina.
Abstract:
The milling cutter comprises a body (1) having two indentations (4,5) each presenting a housing (4',5') the body of which makes with the longitudinal axis of the body a helix angle which is not equal to zero. In each housing a cutting insert (6,7) is removably fixed which comprises a tip portion emerging on the frontal face (9) of the body and a main cutting edge extending beyond and along the external lateral rim of the indentation. The position and the shape of this insert are such that the radial cutting angle is not equal to zero and is constant, and that the clearance angle is constant with a wedge angle of the insert which is also constant.
Abstract:
A ball end mill includes an end mill body, an indexable cutter insert, a clamp screw and shift preventing mechanism. The body has an insert receiving recess formed in a forward end portion thereof. The insert has a front face, a rear face and at least two convexly curved side faces, and has at least two convexly curved main cutting edges each defined by the intersection of a respective one of the convexly curved side faces with the front face. The insert is received in the insert receiving recess with the rear face mated with the bottom face of the recess in such a manner that one of the main cutting edges is indexed in a cutting position. The shift preventing mechanism includes an engaging recess formed in one of the bottom face of the insert receiving recess and the rear face of the insert and an engaging projection complementary to the engaging recess and provided on the other of the bottom face of the insert receiving recess and the rear face of the insert so as to be brought into engagement with the engaging recess.
Abstract:
A ball end mill includes a body, an indexable cutter insert and a clamp screw. The body has a recess formed in a forward end portion thereof and a bore formed therein and opening to a bottom face of the recess. The bore includes a cylindrical portion disposed adjacent the bottom face and an internally threaded portion greater in diameter than the internally threaded portion. The insert includes a front face, a rear face and at least two convexly curved side faces. The front face has at least two convexly curved main cutting edges each defined by the intersection of a respective one of the curved side faces with the front face. The insert has an aperture formed therethrough and extending generally perpendicular to the rear face. The insert is releasably mounted in the recess with the rear face held in contact with the bottom face in such a manner that one of the main cutting edges is indexed in a cutting position. The clamp screw includes an externally threaded portion and a cylindrical engaging portion disposed coaxially with the externally threaded portion and being greater in diameter than the threaded portion. The clamp screw passes through the aperture of the insert and is received by the bore in such a manner that the externally threaded portion is threaded into the internally threaded portion while the cylindrical engaging portion is held in engagement with the cylindrical portion.
Abstract:
An indexable cutting insert (10) for a tool (18) adapted to cut internal right-angled corners in a work piece (19). The insert (10) has a square configuration and comprises a top major surface (11), a bottom major surface (12) and connecting side surfaces (13). The lines of junction between the top major surface and the side surfaces define the main cutting edges (14) and the minor cutting edges (15). The main cutting edges (14) transite into the second cutting edges (15) in the corners of the insert. Each second cutting edge (15D) projects from the square basical shape so that it will lift the inactive main cutting edge (14A) from the machined surface under the insert.
Abstract:
A cutter insert of the indexable type comprises a plate of a generally quadrilateral shape including a front face, a rear face and four side faces. The cutter insert has two peripheral cutting edges defined by two opposite side faces and the front face. A pair of notches are formed in two diagonal corners of the cutter insert, and the other two diagonal corners are chamfered to provide respective corner faces which define together with the front face a pair of end cutting edges.
Abstract:
A metal throw-away insert has a pair of plain, parallel top and bottom surfaces and at least three plain side faces perpendicular to said surfaces and linked together polygonally. A plurality of grooves are provided on the surfaces which with each groove extending along and closely spaced away from the line formed between one of the side faces and one of the surfaces adjoining the same. Each group is uniformly convex and closest at its center portion to the adjoining one with grooves being inwardly inclined to define an acute angle with respect to said one''s surface in a direction away from the adjoining line.
Abstract:
Indexable cutting inserts having a multiplicity of successively usable cutting edges, the inserts having pre-ground areas of circular cross-section formed by spin grinding directly in the rear of all of the cutting edges.