A tool for machining a stacked material workpiece includes a tool body having one or more helical flutes extending to a forward end of the tool body. Each helical flute has a width defined by a first cutting edge and a second edge, a surface of the flute adjacent the first cutting edge facing the forward end of the tool body and a surface of the flute adjacent the second edge facing away from the forward end of the tool body. Each helical flute can include a first portion having a first negative pitch angle and a second portion having a second negative pitch angle different from the first negative pitch angle, the first portion extending from the forward end of the tool body to the second portion. The tool has only negative pitch angles. A method for machining a stacked material is also disclosed.

Rotatable, solid cutting tool with both right-hand spirals and left-hand spirals, each of which includes an interrupted cutting edge having individual cutting edges. Individual cutting edges of the right hand spirals are axially staggered helically around a circumference of a cutting portion with respect to individual cutting edges of the left hand spirals so that, at each axial position along an axial length of the cutting portion, each radial cross-section includes both at least one individual cutting edge on a right hand spiral and at least one individual cutting edge on a left hand spiral. Individual cutting edges have a length along an outer circumference of the cutting tool that is the same for individual cutting edges of the right hand spiral and individual cutting edges of the left hand spirals. Cutting edges on differently handed spirals are both right handed cutting edges or both left handed cutting edges.

An edge break apparatus including a frame having a first workpiece interface surface, a second workpiece interface surface arranged relative to the first workpiece interface surface so as to form a predetermined angle between the first workpiece surface and the second workpiece surface, and a first aperture extending through the frame so as to intersect the predetermined angle, and an edge break member extending through and interfaced with the first aperture so as to adjustably define a cutting depth of the edge break member relative to an apex of the predetermined angle.

An end mill includes an end mill body having a bar-shape extending along a rotation axis and including a first end and a second end, a side surface, a first end cutting edge, a second end cutting edge, a first peripheral cutting edge extending from the first end cutting edge, and a second peripheral cutting edge extending from the second end cutting edge. In which, L2 is smaller than L1, where L1 is a distance from the rotation axis to the first peripheral cutting edge, and L2 is a distance from the rotation axis to the second peripheral cutting edge in a cross section orthogonal to the rotation axis. And 2 is greater than 1, where 1 is a rake angle of the first peripheral cutting edge, and 2 is a rake angle of the second peripheral cutting edge.

A composite machining tool includes a tool body with at least one cutting edge and at least one grinding region. The grinding region is located adjacent to the cutting edge such that there is a gap between the grinding region and the cutting edge and such that when the tool performs a machining action the cutting edge and the grinding region act together on a material surface.

A machining tool for machining fiber-reinforced materials, which comprises a plurality of flutes which separate lands from each other in the circumferential direction, wherein at least one land includes a plurality of cutting edges on its circumferential side, the cutting edges extending at a helix angle (a1-an, b1-bn, c1-cn, d1-dn) having an absolute value >25 with respect to the longitudinal axis of the machining tool, wherein at least two cutting edges on the at least one land have different helix angles (a1-an, b1-bn, c1-cn, d1-dn).

A tool for machining fiber-reinforced materials, said tool having a tool body having a particular cutting edge that has at least a main function surface and has a diamond coating applied at least to said main function surface. In order to provide a tool and a method which are especially suitable for machining fiber-reinforced materials, the surface of the diamond coating has a reduced peak height Spk of less than 0.25 m.

The invention relates to a method for machining plate-shaped workpieces (11), which are preferably made at least in part of wood, wood material, plastic, composite material or the like, by a machining device (10), the method comprising: positioning a plate-shaped workpiece (11) on a workpiece support (14), introducing at least one separating region (17) into the plate-shaped workpiece (11), positioning a machining tool (13) within the at least one separating region (17), performing a pivoting movement of the machining tool (13) in the direction of at least one narrow surface (18) of the plate-shaped workpiece (11), which is adjacent to the at least one separating region (17), wherein, as a result of the pivoting movement of the milling tool (13), a cutout (22) is introduced into the at least one narrow surface (18) of the plate-shaped workpiece (11), as well as a machining device (10) for machining plate-shaped workpieces (11).

The present invention provides a cutting method comprising a cutting step of cutting a workpiece material with a cutting tool to thereby form a through-groove in the workpiece material, wherein in the cutting step, the through-groove is formed in the workpiece material by cutting the workpiece material with the cutting tool while contacting a cut-assisting lubricant with the contact portion of the cutting tool with the workpiece material and/or the contact portion of the workpiece material with the cutting tool, and the workpiece material comprises a fiber reinforced composite material.

A cutting tool for metal is described that comprises a main body produced from metal, wherein the main body is reinforced with a reinforcing material. The cutting tool can be a milling tool, a turning tool, a drilling tool, a thread cutting tool, a broaching tool, a turn broaching tool, a reaming tool, a deburring tool, a combination tool and/or a multifunctional tool.