Side-milling cutter, in particular for machining toothing systems
AssigneeKennametal Inc.
InventorsReinhold Friedrich Gesell, Rene Schumann
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Abstract
The invention relates to a side-milling cutter for producing a toothing system, having at least one insert having a rectangular cross section arranged in a holding pocket as an insert seat, having two top surfaces facing away from each other, having two long insert sides located opposite each other and also having two narrow insert sides located opposite each other. Of four cutting edges of the insert which extend along the long insert sides in the longitudinal direction, in each case two cutting edges delimit the top surfaces of the insert at the edge, each cutting edge extending in a curve.
Claims11
A side-milling cutter for producing a toothing system, having at least one indexable insert of rectangular cross section arranged in a holding pocket as an insert seat, said indexable insert having two top surfaces facing away from each other, having two longitudinal insert sides located opposite each other, having two narrow insert sides located opposite each other and having in each case two cutting edges delimiting the top surfaces at the edge, and having alternately equipped holding pockets such that indexable inserts and tooth head machining inserts suitable exclusively for machining the tooth heads of a toothing system are arranged alternately,
- wherein the four cutting edges extend along the longitudinal insert sides in the longitudinal direction of the insert, and
- wherein each cutting edge extends in an arc.
The side-milling cutter as claimed in claim wherein both the indexable inserts and the tooth head machining inserts are set obliquely to the central longitudinal plane of the disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.