A power skiving tool includes a basic body, which is equipped with a plurality of replaceable cutting inserts, by means of which chips can be carved or peeled out of a workpiece with the purpose of forming, for instance, teeth. The individual cutting insert is formed with only one cutting edge) and has a rear end in the form of a shoulder surface, against which an adjusting mechanism is pressed for the fine adjustment of the radial position of the cutting insert in relation to the basic body. On the underside of the cutting insert, there is in addition a control means, e.g. a serration connecting surface, which interacts with the corresponding control means in the appurtenant seat in the basic body. In addition, the invention concerns a power skiving cutting insert as such.

A method for machining toothed and hardened work wheels, includes: mounting a work wheel that is hardened and pre-toothed with an allowance onto a workpiece spindle; removing at least 50% of the allowance by means of gear skiving with a skiving wheel that is rotatably driven by a tool spindle; precision-machining the work wheel in unchanged tension by means of a honing wheel. The forward movement occurs during gear skiving in the extension direction of the toothing. The delivery of the workpiece that is moved in an oscillating manner in the extension direction of the toothing occurs during honing in the radial direction. The skiving wheel and the honing wheel are driven by a common tool spindle. A device for carrying out the method includes a workpiece spindle, which is driven to rotate, and a tool spindle, which carries a combination tool having a skiving wheel and a honing wheel.

A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating film formed on a surface of the base material. The coating film includes a first alternating layer and a second alternating layer formed on the first alternating layer. The first alternating layer includes first and second layers. The second alternating layer includes third and fourth layers. One or a plurality of the first layers and one or a plurality of the second layers are layered alternately, and one or a plurality of the third layers and one or a plurality of the fourth layers are layered alternately.

A surface-coated cutting tool includes a base material and a coating. A hard layer in the coating includes a plurality of crystal grains having a sodium chloride-type crystal structure. When the angle of intersection between the normal direction to (111) plane that is a crystal plane of the crystal grain and the normal direction to the surface of the base material is measured, a proportion A of the crystal grains having the angle of intersection of 0 degree or more to less than 20 degrees is 50% or more. The length of 3 grain boundaries is less than 50% of the length of 3-29 grain boundaries. The crystal grain has a layered structure in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately stacked. The total thickness of the first layer and the second layer adjacent to each other is 3 to 40 nm.

The finishing part (4) of this helical broach (1) is formed by a first shell (20) and a second shell (30) which are divided in the axial direction, and is obtained by forming a first finishing blade (50), which comprises a prescribed gear tooth helix angle () end a first blade groove helix angle (.sub.1), on the aforementioned first shell (20) and forming a second finishing blade (60), which comprises the aforementioned prescribed gear tooth helix angle () and a second blade groove helix angle (.sub.2) which differs from the aforementioned first blade groove helix angle (.sub.1), on the aforementioned second shell (30).

Herein a cutting insert for a power skiving tool is disclosed. The cutting insert includes an insert body having a bottom surface extending in a first plane, and a body axis extending substantially in parallel with the first plane. The insert body has a cutting end portion and opposite thereto, an abutment surface. The abutment surface extends substantially perpendicularly to the body axis and to the first plane. The cutting end portion is provided with a first and a second cutting edge, the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge being directed in a same cutting direction. Herein, further a power skiving tool including such cutting inserts is disclosed.

The invention concerns a method for the machining of the tooth edges between an axially facing surface and the tooth flanks of a gear with a machining tool that has a toothed contour. For the material-removing cutting operation, the machining tool, rotating about the axis of its toothed contour, is brought into rolling engagement with the toothed workpiece under a crossing angle different from zero between the rotary axes of the machining tool and the toothed workpiece.

The invention concerns a method for the machining of the tooth edges between an axially facing surface and the tooth flanks of a gear with a machining tool that has a toothed contour. For the material-removing cutting operation, the machining tool, rotating about the axis of its toothed contour, is brought into rolling engagement with the toothed workpiece under a crossing angle different from zero between the rotary axes of the machining tool and the toothed workpiece.

The present disclosure relates to a method for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by a diagonal-generating method, in which the workpiece is subjected to gear tooth machining by the rolling off of a tool, wherein an axial feed of the tool takes place during the machining with a diagonal ratio given by the ratio between the axial feed of the tool and the axial feed of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the diagonal ratio is changed within the course of the machining of a workpiece.

Provided are: a screw-shaped grindstone for grinding gears that has a simple configuration and is capable of grinding gears with high precision; and a method for grinding gears. The screw-shaped grindstone (20) for grinding gears, which grinds a workpiece (W1) by rotating while meshing with the workpiece (W1), comprises a screw-shaped grindstone (21) that grinds the workpiece (W1), and a screw-shaped grindstone (22) that is linked to the screw-shaped grindstone (21) on the same axis, and grinds the workpiece (W1), which has been ground by the screw-shaped grindstone (21). A plurality of grinding ranges (L1, L2) that are sectioned at prescribed lengths in the width direction of the grindstone are established with respect to the screw-shaped grindstones (21, 22), and each grinding range (L1, L2) of the screw-shaped grindstones (21, 22) serves as the range of use per workpiece (W1).