Provided is a cutting insert, which has excellent chip discharge performance even when formed with multiple corners superior in economic efficiency. A first ridgeline at which an upper surface and a circumferential side surface intersect each other includes a plurality of corners disposed at equal intervals and a plurality of main cutting edges disposed one by one between the corners adjacent to each other. A distance between the corners adjacent to each other is equal to or less than 60% of the diameter of a circle inscribed within the ridgeline. The main cutting edges includes a first cutting edge that is linearly formed and a second cutting edge that is linearly formed. The length of the second cutting edge is equal to or less than half the length of the first cutting edge and is positioned closer to a center side of the cutting insert than an extension line of the first cutting edge is. The circumferential side surface includes a first side surface facing the first cutting edge and a second side surface facing the second cutting edge. A clearance angle of the first side surface is smaller than that of the second side surface.

A method for the production of a reamer, such as a burr for milling a patient's acetabular cavity, including a substantially hemispherical, hollow cutting body with a perforated wall. The method includes a step of forming at least one tooth by stamping the wall, during which an area of the thinned portion of the wall, adjacent to a hole, is pressed between a punch and an anvil.

A method for the production of a reamer, such as a burr for milling a patient's acetabular cavity, including a substantially hemispherical, hollow cutting body with a perforated wall. The method includes a step of forming at least one tooth by stamping the wall, during which an area of the thinned portion of the wall, adjacent to a hole, is pressed between a punch and an anvil.

A rotary cutting tool includes a cutting head having a plurality of insert-receiving pockets for radially mounting a first type of cutting insert in a first cutting region and for tangentially mounting a second type of cutting insert in a second cutting region. The first cutting region has a first length, L1, and the second cutting region has a second length, L2, that is greater in magnitude than the first length, L1. The two types of cutting inserts provides a hybrid cutting insert design in which the first type of cutting inserts provide an increased chip gash volume for effective chip evacuation, and the second type of cutting inserts provide an increased core diameter to minimize deflection of the rotary cutting tool.

A turbine rotor includes a rotor body and a balancing weight slot defined in an exterior circumference of the body. The balancing weight slot has a first axial width and a first radially outward facing surface at a first radial distance from a rotor axis. The rotor also includes a balancing weight entry port defined in a portion of the exterior circumference of the rotor body and aligned with the balancing weight slot. The balancing weight entry port has a second axial width greater than the first axial width and a second radially outward facing surface at a second radial distance from the axis of the rotor body that is smaller than the first radial distance. A method may include machining the entry port into the rotor with a tool. The method may be applied to a new rotor, or to remove cracks initiating from a previous entry port.

A deburring tool (7) for deburring of edges of transverse recesses (3, 3a-i), which diverge from a main borehole (2), consisting of a shaft (8, 9) driven to turn about the tool axis (11), which is deployable and retractable in the forward feed direction into the main borehole, and on the lower end of which at least one knife window (26) is arranged, in which at least one spring-loaded knife (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″) is arranged roughly perpendicular to the tool axis (11), so as to be shiftable, which on its front end has at least one cutting edge (10a, 10b) which encounters the edge of the transverse recess (3, 3a-i), and deburrs same, wherein the knife (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″) consists of two cutting edges (10a, 10b) opposite in the rotational direction (12, 13), which act to cut equally for the right and left passes (12, 13), with one cutting edge (10a) being configured to cut for the rightward pass (12), both in forward motion (38a) and in rearward motion, and the other cutting edge (10b), being configured to cut for the leftward pass (13), both in forward motion (38a) and in rearward motion, and that the two cutters (10a, 10b) with their cutting edges are placed at a slant and with arch shape at an angle between 0° and 90°, but preferably between 5° and 45° to the tool axis (11) and thus to the longitudinal axis (2a) of the main borehole (2).

A deburring tool (7) for deburring of edges of transverse recesses (3, 3a-i), which diverge from a main borehole (2), consisting of a shaft (8, 9) driven to turn about the tool axis (11), which is deployable and retractable in the forward feed direction into the main borehole, and on the lower end of which at least one knife window (26) is arranged, in which at least one spring-loaded knife (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″) is arranged roughly perpendicular to the tool axis (11), so as to be shiftable, which on its front end has at least one cutting edge (10a, 10b) which encounters the edge of the transverse recess (3, 3a-i), and deburrs same, wherein the knife (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″, 10″″) consists of two cutting edges (10a, 10b) opposite in the rotational direction (12, 13), which act to cut equally for the right and left passes (12, 13), with one cutting edge (10a) being configured to cut for the rightward pass (12), both in forward motion (38a) and in rearward motion, and the other cutting edge (10b), being configured to cut for the leftward pass (13), both in forward motion (38a) and in rearward motion, and that the two cutters (10a, 10b) with their cutting edges are placed at a slant and with arch shape at an angle between 0° and 90°, but preferably between 5° and 45° to the tool axis (11) and thus to the longitudinal axis (2a) of the main borehole (2).

A cutting insert includes a first end surface and a second end surface, in which a first peripheral side surface includes a first rake surface adjacent to a first main cutting edge and a first concave surface connected to the second end surface and formed to be recessed from the first rake surface toward a central axis of a through hole, and the first concave surface has a first restraint surface provided at a position where a distance between the first restraint surface and a second main cutting edge is smaller than a distance between the central axis of the through hole and the second main cutting edge, when viewed from a direction parallel to the central axis of the through hole.

Provided is a tip dresser blade comprising a body of M-2 steel hardened to a Rockwell C hardness in the range of 63 to 66, inclusive, by double tempering. The body may be ground to provide a specific first geometry, or a specific second geometry, or a specific third geometry, or a specific fourth geometry.

Provided is a tip dresser blade comprising a body of M-2 steel hardened to a Rockwell C hardness in the range of 63 to 66, inclusive, by double tempering. The body may be ground to provide a specific first geometry, or a specific second geometry, or a specific third geometry, or a specific fourth geometry.