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US 11,097,351 B2Granted
Cutting tool and cutting insert with fluid flow structures
AssigneeSeco Tools AB
InventorVolker Höfermann
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Abstract
A cutting tool includes a cutting insert comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, a clamping surface for abutting a clamp, a cutting edge, a hole extending through the insert from the bottom surface to the clamping surface, and a channel extending from the clamping surface to proximate the cutting edge, and a tool holder comprising a tool holder body having a pocket for receiving the insert, a clamp for contacting the clamping surface and clamping the insert in the pocket, and a tool holder passage in the body in flow communication with the hole in the insert. A cutting insert is also provided.
Claims5
A cutting tool comprising:
- a tool holder including a coolant bore;
- a cutting insert including a cutting edge and a fastening bore, wherein the fastening bore comprises a first mating surface;
- and
- a fastener adapted to secure the cutting insert to the tool holder, the fastener comprising a head portion;
- wherein when the cutting insert is secured to the tool holder by securing the fastener through the fastening bore, the fastening bore and the fastener define a cavity fluidly communicating with the coolant bore and adapted to direct a coolant through the cutting insert and toward the head portion;
- wherein the head portion comprises;
- a tapered second mating surface structured to securely abut a portion of the first mating surface of the fastening bore when the fastener is secured through the fastening bore;
- and
- a recess extending radially inward from the tapered second mating surface, wherein the recess is adapted to direct a coolant fluid to the cutting edge of the cutting insert.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.