公开(公告)号：US20170151614A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-01

申请号：US15186120

申请日：2016-06-17

申请人： Douglas J. Woodruff ,  William J. Endres ,  Nick H. Helminen

发明人： Douglas J. Woodruff ,  William J. Endres ,  Nick H. Helminen

IPC分类号： B23C5/24

CPC分类号： B23C5/06 ,  B23C5/22 ,  B23C5/223 ,  B23C5/2413 ,  B23C5/2472 ,  B23C5/2475

摘要： This invention relates to face milling tools used to create a generally planar/face surface on a workpiece. Embodiments of this invention allow more teeth per unit tool diameter for certain types of cutting insert mounting styles and generally for larger cutting inserts. In particular, this invention allows the aforementioned while keeping manufacturing cost lower than it could be with some other designs, mainly by allowing manufacture of the face mill using larger tools that approach the face mill from mainly or exclusively the axial direction, thus requiring the equipment used to manufacture the cutter body to be a lower cost three-axis machine as compared to four- and five-axis machines that may be otherwise needed. Embodiments of the invention also permit adjustment of the axial positions of multiple cutting inserts and their support pockets by way of adjustment in the face mill manufacturing process. Other embodiments allow the adjustment to be made by the end-user in the field on a case-by-case basis after manufacture of the face mill is complete.