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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7726914 | Cutting tip comprising an alignment slide The invention relates to a machining tool holder comprising alignment elements in a housing and clamping elements on the base of the housing, the elements being used to align and clamp a removable cutting tip comprising a lateral slide for the lateral deviation of a... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7713004 | Tool for chip removing machining as well as a basic body therefore A tool for chip removing machining, including a long narrow basic body having an envelope surface which is concentric with a center axis, and two opposite ends, and a replaceable loose top which is connected to the basic body via a first coupling that includes a fir... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7670088 | Tool for chip removing machining and a basic body therefor A tool for chip removing machining, including a basic body, and a cutting insert fixed in an insert seat in the basic body by a tightening element, and which, via at least one shoulder surface, is held pressed against a stop surface in the insert seat. An elasticall... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7648313 | Tube end milling head A tube end rotary milling head with cylindrical cutting pieces removably secured to the milling head by forces exerted by the material being cut and by friction without any separate securing elements. ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7637700 | Cutting insert and milling tool A milling tool includes a cutting tool insert, roughly plate-shaped and having a rake face on an upper face and a flank on a side face and a main cutting edge at an intersection ridge line part at the intersection of the rake face and the flank, fitted in the periph... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7517178 | Rotary cutter head A rotary cutter head includes a rotary body, resilient clamping arm, and at least one cutting blade. The clamping arm clamps the cutting blade radially inwardly first rather than in a circumferential direction in order to positively lock the cutting blade radially, ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7409896 | Tool for chip removing maching A tool for chip removing machining comprising a tool head, which is provided with insert seats for the receipt of replaceable cutting inserts as well as a fastening part intended to be received in a machine tool. The tool has at least two chip pockets, in each one o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7399146 | Rotary cutting tool having irregular insert orientation A rotary cutting tool such as a helical end mill, having pockets arranged to overcome harmonic vibrations. The tool has at least two and in one embodiment all three of three spacing irregularities. In the first irregularity, columns of pockets, typically associated ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390148 | Boring tool and a cutting insert therefor This invention relates to a boring tool having a cutting insert. The insert has a chip breaker with a base that extends from the secondary cutting edge to the primary cutting edge. The primary cutting edge, which is also referred to below as the major cutting edge, ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7360975 | Multi-functional tube milling head A milling head for a rotary tool, which is preferably utilized to process, prepare, or otherwise impart a desired finish to a workpiece, preferably an end portion of a tube. In a preferred embodiment, the milling head includes at least three different cutting or mil... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7325471 | Toolholder and cutting insert for a toolholder assembly A toolholder and cutting insert for a toolholder assembly wherein the cutting insert has a tapered shank which provides a resilient interference fit with a tapered section of a bore extending within the toolholder. Additionally, a rearwardly facing face on the cutti... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322776 | Cutting tool inserts and methods to manufacture The present invention relates to cutting tool inserts. A cutting tool insert includes an abrasive tip of a hard material, an abrasive or superabrasive material. A cutting tool insert is bonded to an insert body by mechanical force. The mechanical forces are generate... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313992 | Tube milling head Tube ends such as those of boiler tube banks, are prepared utilizing any of various combinations of processes which include a step of micro-diameter tube film removal from a portion of a tube end, including an area below a beveled segment, or segment to be beveled. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7281885 | High-speed milling cutter A high-speed milling cutter has a tool parent body and one or more plate-shaped cutting inserts with a convex, approximately arc-shaped cutting edge. The insert(s) is/are fastened in an insert seat of the tool parent body. Mating elements with mutual contact surface... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7255518 | Insert seat formed of ridges A tool body includes an insert seat for receiving a cutting insert for chip-removing machining. The insert seat includes a bottom surface and support surfaces upstanding from the bottom surface. Each support surface comprises at least three ridges separated by groov... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7234902 | Milling tool holder with camming plug A milling tool holder apparatus includes a tool holder having a male structure received in a female opening of a shank, and a camming plug received in a transverse plug-receiving opening in the shank and the tool holder. Turning the camming plug in one direction mov... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7189030 | Cutting tool A cutting tool comprises a tool body having a pocket for supporting an insert. The tool body may have a flute for evacuating chips from a workpiece during a cutting operation. The tool body and the insert may have complimentary shapes to cooperatively form an uninte... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7179021 | Cutting insert holder A cutting insert holder for releasably clamping a quadrilateral cutting insert in a predetermined clamping position, the cutting insert having a through bore and a non-obtuse insert mounting corner. The cutting insert holder includes a clamping portion formed with a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7156006 | Method and assembly for rotating a cutting insert during a turning operation and inserts used therein A cutting insert rotated about its axis may be utilized during a metalworking operation and applied against the rotating workpiece to enhance tool performance. A method, including an assembly with a rotatable insert mounted to a toolholder may be utilized to achieve... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7107664 | Screw thread cutting apparatus and method A thread cutting milling tool comprises a shank with a working portion formed with a recess for receiving a thread cutting insert. The thread cutting insert has one edge formed with a line of thread-form teeth of identical profile. The thread cutting teeth project l... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7044695 | Milling tool A milling cutter having a pair of clamping components mounted on a tool holder to form a slot for receiving a cutting insert. One of the clamping components forms an integral extension of the tool holder's shank. The two clamping components are fastened together by ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044692 | Screw thread cutting apparatus and method A thread cutting milling tool comprises a shank with a working portion formed with a recess for receiving a thread cutting insert. The thread cutting insert has one edge formed with a line of thread-form teeth of identical profile. The thread cutting teeth project l... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7004689 | High-speed milling cutter and insert A high-speed milling cutter (10) includes a shank (12), a front portion (14), and a transition surface (16) between the shank (12) and the front portion (14). The cutter (10) also includes an insert pocket (20)... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6955507 | Tube milling head Tube ends such as those of boiler tube banks, are prepared utilizing any of various combinations of processes which include a step of micro-diameter tube film removal from a portion of a tube end, including an area below a beveled segment, or segment to be beveled. ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6929426 | Indexable cutting tool A cutting tool is in the form of a holder and a cutting insert that is quickly and easily indexable in one of a plurality of precision cutting positions within the holder. The holder has a bore therein and a stop in the bore. The cutting insert has a shank portion t... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6783444 | Tool for machining surfaces in bores The tool comprises a tool wheel (5) which is mounted on a holding arm (4) and has a tool-wheel parent body (6) having a machining body (7) arranged at the outer margin. In one embodiment variant, this machining body is designed as an abra... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6769842 | Cutter plate and milling tool Cutter plates (19) with an approximately cube-shaped base body have been created, in particular for finish-milling of a crankshaft (5). At the edge of its cover surface, the base body is provided with a hump or protrusion, which can be embodied rib- or... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6733366 | Tool and process for finishing a vehicle wheel surface A vehicle wheel has an outboard face which includes a smoothed portion to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face. The smoothed portion is formed by pressing a cutting tool having a non-symmetrical tip against the wheel surface as the wheel is rotated. ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6637985 | Machining tool for machining workpieces A rotating machining tool includes a shank that can be clamped into a machine or a machine spindle, and a pin that is machine-molded in one piece with the shank. The pin has a threaded section and a press-fit section. The machining tool also includes a cu... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6607333 | Milling cutter and cutting insert therefor A cutting tool assembly (20), for example ball nose end mill, having a single replaceable cutting insert (24, 100, 106) clamped between two clamping jaws (34, 32) having clamping surfaces (50, 42) with geometries complementary to those of the clamping sur... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6540450 | Tool and process for finishing a vehicle wheel surface A vehicle wheel has an outboard face which includes a smoothed portion to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face. The smoothed portion is formed by pressing a cutting tool having a non-symmetrical tip against the wheel surface as the wheel is rotated... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6503027 | Cutting tool assembly The present invention provides a cutting tool assembly comprising a tool shank a pull rod and a cutting head. The tool shank has an axially extending elongated hole. A forward portion of the elongated hole being formed by first and second non-coaxial, par... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502610 | Cutter support body for high speed cutting heads for woodworking In a cutting blade support body for a wood working cutting head including a cylindrical support body with at least two recesses disposed in axial symmetry and extending over the full axial length of the cylindrical support body for receiving and supportin... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6494648 | Cutting tool assembly The present invention provides a cutting tool assembly having a tool shank with an elongated hole extending axially through the tool shank. An elongated support bar having threaded bore at its forward end is retained in the elongated hole. A cutting head ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6224300 | Cutting insert for shaping by chipping A cutting insert shapes metallic workpieces by chipping. The cutting insert is especially suited for use in solid drills or double-bit cutters. It has at least one cutting edge which is delimited by a chipping face and a flank extends between two cutting ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6109152 | Cutting tool assembly A cutting tool assembly wherein a cutting head is releasably retained by a tool holder by using of interacting coupling members, with one of the coupling members being inserted into a cavity of the other coupling member, with radially extending abutment w... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6095722 | Cutting tool with cutting edge mounting which is free of auxiliary equipment A rotating cutting tool having a tool body, in which cutting inserts are clamped without auxiliary equipment and without the aid of movable clamping elements. To this end, the tool body is provided with receiving grooves, which narrow toward the circumfer... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5782589 | Milling cutter A milling cutter is provided including a tool holder and a cutting tool insert. The tool holder includes a mounting end portion and a cutting end portion. The cutting end portion includes a slot defined by first and second diagonal surfaces provided in an... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5704735 | Fly cutter wheel with at least one tooth, in particular for machining ophthalmic lenses A fly cutter wheel has at least one projecting tooth at a distance from its rotation axis and a chip breaker forward of said tooth in its rotation direction. Applications include the machining of synthetic material ophthalmic lenses.... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5658101 | Milling head An improved milling head. A milling head is provided with a backing plate with a toothed system on the from side, whose teeth run in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the carrier body. Because the blade plate has a toothed system, which can be engaged ... | 08/19/1997 |
