Cutting insert for high feed face milling

A milling insert retained in a cutter body wherein the cutter body has an axis of rotation, and in a milling operation, the milling insert engages a workpiece, the milling insert comprising:

• a top face comprising a top edge comprising a plurality of substantially identical generally convex cutting edges, a plurality of nose corners wherein each one of the nose corners joins adjacent ones of the substantially identical generally convex cutting edges;
• a bottom face comprising a bottom edge, the top edge having a top perimeter and the bottom edge having a bottom perimeter wherein the top perimeter is greater than the bottom perimeter;
• a plurality of side surfaces wherein each one of the side surfaces corresponds to one of the substantially identical generally convex cutting edges, and each one of the side surfaces extends from its corresponding one of the substantially identical generally convex cutting edges to the bottom edge;
• each one of the substantially identical generally convex cutting edges comprising a curved cutting edge region wherein the milling insert is oriented in the cutter body so that in a milling operation, the curved cutting edge region initially engages the workpiece so as to result in a workpiece having an initially-engaged workpiece surface;
• each one of the substantially identical generally convex cutting edges further comprising a first substantially straight cutting edge region being contiguous with the curved cutting edge region, and in the milling operation, the first substantially straight cutting edge region engaging the initially-engaged workpiece surface resulting in a smoothening of the initially-engaged workpiece surface.