Adjusting device for milling cutters

In a blade holder component secured to a revolving milling cutter body and having wall means defining a recess for receiving a cutting blade and supporting the cutting blade inserted in the recess;

• an adjusting device having a resiliently deformable tongue forming an integral part of the blade holder component and being in engagement with the cutting blade;
• a set screw connected to the resiliently deformable tongue for changing the position of the latter to adjust the orientation of the cutting blade in the recess;
• the improvement wherein said resiliently deformable tongue is defined by a single slot extending into the blade holder component from the zone of the blade-receiving recess, said tongue having a root and a free terminal portion, said free terminal portion including a support area for engaging the cutting blade received in said recess;
• said set screw passing through said tongue and traversing said single slot, said set screw having a head engaging, with a shoulder, said tongue;
• said set screw having an end portion threadedly engaged in said blade holder component adjacent said tongue.