Cutting tool with nozzle
AssigneeSandvik Aktiebolag
InventorStig Lagerberg
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Abstract
A cutting tool includes a nozzle for directing coolant toward an insert seat disposed in the tool. The nozzle includes a bore which directs coolant toward a location on the seat that is spaced from a center hole in which the nozzle is mounted. A rear end of the nozzle is pressed against a fixed surface of the tool by the pressure of coolant. The bore in the nozzle is in non-coinciding relationship relative to the axis of the hole in which the insert is mounted. The bore can be angled relative to axis of the hole, or the bore can be parallel to, but radially offset from, the axis of the hole.
Claims15
A cutting tool comprising:
- a body including:
- a seat disposed in a front part of the body and adapted to receive a cutting insert,
- a channel adapted to conduct coolant,
- a cavity disposed at a front end of the channel, and
- a nozzle-mounting wall including front and rear surfaces, the front surface facing generally forwardly toward the seat, and the rear surface facing rearwardly away from the seat and defining part of the cavity, the wall further including a hole extending therethrough from the rear surface to the front surface;
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- a nozzle mounted in the hole and including:
- an outlet communicating with the channel for ejecting coolant toward a location at the insert seat spaced from a front-to-rear extending center longitudinal axis of the hole,
- an envelope surface portion mounted in the hole and rotatable relative to a surface of the hole about the longitudinal axis of the hole, wherein the direction of ejected coolant is changed in response to rotation of the nozzle,
- a locking element locking the nozzle in respective rotary positions, and a flange disposed at a rear end of the envelope surface portion, the flange having a front face which faces forwardly toward the rear surface of the nozzle-mounting wall and disposed in the cavity, wherein pressure of the coolant presses the flange toward the rear surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.