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US 5,746,549 AGranted
Metal cutting tool
AssigneeMapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
InventorsDieter Kress, Friedrich Haberle
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Abstract
A metal cutting including a tool head, a cutting plate, and a snap-locking arrangement for securing the cutting plate to the tool head and formed of a projection, extending from the cutting plate or the bottom of the cavity, which is formed in tool head for receiving the cutting plate, into a hole formed, respectively, in the bottom of the tool head cavity or in the cutting plate, and a snap-action locking element located in the hole for engaging the projection and retaining it in the hole.
Claims16
A metal cutting tool for a chip-type machining process, comprising:
- a tool head;
- a cutting plate;
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- snap-action locking means for securing said cutting plate in said tool head, wherein said snap-action locking means comprises a projection having a locking surface and extending from one of a bottom of a hole, which is formed in said tool head for receiving said cutting plate, and a bottom face of said cutting plate, a hole formed in another one of said bottom and said bottom face for receiving said projection, and an elastic locking element located in said hole for applying a locking force to said locking surface of said projection.
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