A grooving blade for chip removing machining includes a cutting insert pocket and a damping arrangement fixed to the blade. The damping arrangement projects laterally with respect to at least one major surface of the blade. A grooving tool and a method of grooving a metallic workpiece are also disclosed.

A cutting tool includes a two-way indexable cutting insert clamped in a transversely oriented insert receiving pocket of an insert holder. The insert holder includes a forwardly located insert mounting portion that includes upper and lower jaws which together define the insert receiving pocket having a pocket front opening. The lower jaw includes a pocket lower clamping surface. The upper jaw includes a pocket upper clamping surface which faces mutually towards the pocket lower clamping surface and a pocket stopper surface facing generally towards the pocket front opening. The pocket stopper surface is closer to the pocket lower clamping surface and further from the pocket front opening, than the pocket upper clamping surface. The pocket stopper surface is further from the pocket rear opening than the pocket lower clamping surface.

A face grooving tool body includes a blade portion having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, a first side surface and an opposite second side surface, and a front end and an opposite rear end. A longitudinal axis of the blade portion coincides with a primary cutting feed direction of the blade portion. An upper blade portion is associated with the top surface and a lower blade portion is associated with the bottom surface, the upper and lower blade portions being separated by a slit. The second side surface of the lower blade portion is curved around a second side surface axis of curvature parallel to the longitudinal axis. A key hole is formed in the blade portion. The slit includes a slit portion that has the shape of a concave function in a side view.

A grooving insert includes a front surface and an opposite rear surface, a first side surface and an opposite second side surface, and a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. The top surface includes a top front portion and a top rear portion, the top front portion having a cutting edge arranged symmetrically relative to a first plane. The bottom surface is symmetrically arranged in relation to a second plane, the first plane and the second plane forming an angle () of 0.5-5.0 relative to each other.

In an insert clamping mechanism of an indexable grooving tool of the present invention, a shaft portion of a clamping tool has a major axis and a minor axis orthogonal to each other on a center axis thereof in a cross-sectional view perpendicular to the center axis. At least one end portion of the both end portions positioned on the major axis in an outer circumference of the shaft portion is formed into a recessed shape or a linear shape and is disposed not to come into contact with an upper wall and a lower wall of an opening-closing operation slit. Support portions are respectively formed in parts adjacent to the end portions on both sides around the center axis along the shaft portion.

A parting-off insert for relatively high feed includes a rake surface including a reinforced front sub-edge extending between two convex corner sub-edges. A cutting width W.sub.C is defined between distal points of the first and second convex corner sub-edges. The cutting width W.sub.C fulfills the condition: W.sub.C6 mm. The front sub-edge including a minimum front sub-edge thickness T.sub.F fulfilling the condition: T.sub.F>0.20 mm.

A cutting tool is configured as follows: a slit is provided rearward of a space between an upper jaw and a lower jaw; an insert held between the two jaws is clamped by screwing a threaded member having a head so as to deform the upper jaw toward the lower jaw; and the threaded member has a hollow shaft structure with its hollow serving as a coolant channel, whereby use of an elastic seal is not required, and coolant is supplied from an internal upper-jaw channel and an internal lower-jaw channel provided in the jaws. A vertical hole having a bearing surface 65 extends through a region of a holder 10 located at a lower jaw 30 side; a threaded hole 80 extends through a region of the holder 10 located at an upper jaw 20 side; a large-diameter hole 60 in the form of the vertical hole has a coolant inlet 35 of an internal lower-jaw channel 35; and the threaded hole 80 has a coolant inlet 25a of an internal upper-law channel 25 provided at a vertically intermediate position. A threaded member 70 has a hollow 77 that opens at the rear end of a head 71 and is closed at a front end 78 thereof, has branch holes 75 provided at an intermediate position of a threaded shaft 73 and communicating with the outer circumferential surface thereof, and has a screw-driving portion 79 provided in the front end 78 and adapted to tighten, for clamping, the threaded member 70 screwed into the threaded hole 80 from the large-diameter hole 60.

A method of clamping a first cutting insert or an adaptor to a holder. Either the holder includes two insert pockets configured for machining in two different orthogonal directions or the holder includes a single adaptor pocket configured for holding the adaptor in two different orthogonal directions. The method includes the steps of choosing one of two orthogonal directions for machining and securing either the first cutting insert to an appropriate one of the two pockets or securing the adaptor to the adaptor pocket for machining in the chosen orthogonal direction.

A holder for a tool for machining a workpiece, wherein the holder comprises a cutting insert receptacle in the region of its front end for receiving a cutting insert and a clamping portion in the region of its opposite rear end for clamping the holder in a machine tool. The cutting insert receptacle comprises an upper and a lower clamping jaw, wherein the holder comprises an upper part on which the upper clamping jaw is arranged, and a lower part on which the lower clamping jaw is arranged. The upper and the lower parts are connected together exclusively by means of a web which extends between a first and a second separating slit, wherein the two separating slits extend between the upper part and the lower part of the holder and are arranged on opposite sides of the web such that the upper part is pivotable relative to the lower part via the web in the manner of a rocker. The first separating slit extends in a front holder region between the cutting insert receptacle and the web. The second separating slit extends in a central holder region between the web and the clamping portion. The holder further comprises an actuating means which cooperates with the upper part in the central holder region and is configured to spread the second separating slit in order to move the upper clamping jaw toward the lower clamping jaw and to clamp the cutting insert between the upper and the lower clamping jaws.

A blade portion for a grooving tool includes opposite first and second surfaces, a blade width thereof being defined as a shortest distance between the first and second surfaces, opposite third and fourth surfaces, and a fifth surface and an opposite blade portion end. The blade width is constant or substantially constant from the fifth surface up to the blade portion end. An insert seat separating the third surface and the fifth surface is arranged to receive an insert having a main cutting edge, an associated rake face, and an associated main clearance surface. The main cutting edge defines an insert width being greater than the blade width. A shortest distance from the fifth surface to the opposite blade portion end is greater than a shortest distance from the third surface to the fourth surface.