A coated cutting tool includes a body and a hard and wear resistant coating on the body. The coating has at least one NbN layer with a thickness between 0.2 m and 15 m, wherein the NbN layer includes a phase mixture of a cubic phase, c-NbN, and a hexagonal phase, h-NbN.

In one aspect, composite tool holders are described herein comprising advantageous structural arrangements of metal carbide and alloy components. Briefly, a composite tool holder comprises a metal carbide shank comprising a bore having an inner diameter and outer diameter. An alloy sleeve is positioned in the bore for engaging a tool, wherein the alloy sleeve is bonded to inner diameter surfaces of the bore via a crosslinked adhesive.

Provided are a hole formation method enabling the formation of a high-quality hole even when a workpiece material is a difficult-to-machining metal material or a fiber-reinforced composite material and a drill bit used in the method. A drill bit includes at least one cutting edge and a leading flank adjacent to the cutting edge, and the leading flank is set to have a surface roughness Ra of 2.0 m or more and 3.0 m or less. A hole formation method includes a hole formation step of machining a portion to be processed of a workpiece material by means of drilling to form a hole while a lubricant material for assisting machining process is in contact with a drill bit and/or the portion to be processed, and in the hole formation step, the drill bit is used.

A hole saw structure, which is cooperated with a hole saw arbor for performing a perforating operation, includes a cylindrical body and a blade set. The cylindrical body has a central chamber and includes an end surface and a peripheral wall. One end portion of the peripheral wall is connected around a circumference of the end surface, the other end portion of the peripheral wall is outwardly folded and overlapped around the peripheral wall so as to form a folded portion, the folded portion includes a folded end, and an inner diameter of the cylindrical body is smaller than an outer diameter of the folded portion. The blade set is disposed on the folded portion and includes at least two cutting teeth and at least two chip discharging notches.

Methods of machining a component including multiple dissimilar materials are disclosed. One method may include making a first cut in the component to remove at least a portion of a hardest material in the component and making a second cut in the component along a second cutting-path that does not include the hardest material. The first cut may expose a cut surface in the component and the second cut may extend through the cut surface. The cuts may be made using a turning operation and different cutting tools may be used for the first and second cuts. The hardest material may have a hardness of at least 50 HRC and the remaining materials may have a hardness of at most 45 HRC. The disclosed methods may be used to form a thrust face surface in a shell and sun gear assembly to extend tool life and reduce scrap.

The invention relates to a collet chuck for clamping a dental tool, wherein the collet chuck has at least temporarily a mechanical stress applied to it and is made of steel.

The collet chuck according to the invention is characterized in that the steel, at least in a surface layer, has a nitrogen content of at least 0.1 wt %.

A composite sintered material contains cubic boron nitride particles and binder particles. The composite sintered material contains 40 vol % or more and 80 vol % or less of the cubic boron nitride particles. The binder particles contain TiCN particles. The composite sintered material shows a first peak belonging to a (200) plane of the TiCN particles in a range in which a Bragg angle 2 is 41.7 or more and 42.6 or less in an X-ray diffraction spectrum measured using a Cu-K ray as a ray source.

Tool for machining a workpiece having a cutting insert with at least one cutting edge. Moreover, the tool has a tool holder, which extends along a holder longitudinal axis and has at a workpiece-side end a cutting insert receptacle for receiving the cutting insert, the cutting insert receptacle having an upper clamping finger and a lower clamping jaw. Furthermore, the tool has a wedge-shaped clamping element, which is fastenable in the cutting insert receptacle for wedging the cutting insert in the tool holder. In addition, the tool comprises a fastening element for fastening the clamping element in the cutting insert receptacle and for wedging the cutting insert in the tool holder.

A tool has a main part of hard metal, cermet, ceramic, steel, high-speed steel, and a single or multilayer wear protection coating applied onto the main part by CVD and which has a thickness from 3 m to 25 m. The wear protection coating has at least one Ti.sub.1xAl.sub.xC.sub.yN.sub.z layer with stoichiometric coefficients 0.70x<1.0y<0.25 and 0.75z<1.15 and a thickness from 1.5 m to 17 m. The T.sub.1xAl.sub.xC.sub.yN.sub.z layer has a lamellar structure with lamellae with thickness of no more than 150 nm, preferably no more than 100 nm, particularly preferably no more than 50 nm. Lamellae are made of periodically alternating regions of the Ti.sub.1xAl.sub.xC.sub.yN.sub.z layer with alternatingly different stoichiometric proportions of Ti and Al, having the same crystal structure (crystallographic phase), and the Ti.sub.1xAl.sub.xC.sub.yN.sub.z layer has at least 90% vol. % of face centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure.

An adjustable pipe center; the lathe-center may be useful for supporting the end of a rotating workpiece having a hollow along an axis upon which the workpiece is rotating. The adjustable pipe center includes a shaft, a center-head having keyways, a plurality of bearing-fins, and a plurality of power-screws. The center-head is fixed to the shaft and is able to fit within the hollow of the workpiece. The plurality of bearing-fins is able to fit and slide within the keyways, with each having a bearing-surface for contacting the workpiece. The bearing-surface is disposed at an angle to the shaft-axis between zero and ninety degrees. The bearing-fins may be translated, functioning as an inclined plane to displace a workpiece resting against it. When the bearing-fins are collectively translated as desired, it may laterally adjust the position of the workpiece-axis relative to the shaft-axis.