The present disclosure improves the machining conditions and enhances the quality of machined surfaces, particularly in cutting off and grooving machining when the projection amount of a plate-like member is large. A blade, which is a plate-like member having a polygonal shape and used for cutting machining, includes: a plurality of insert pockets; and recess portions formed by partial cutting corresponding to insert pockets respectively. A holder includes: a holder main portion; and a support portion with which a part of the recess portion formed in the blade contacts. The holder is configured in which the blade can be installed in a state where the part of the recess portion can contact with the support portion.

A cutting tool includes a holder having an upper jaw and a lower jaw, and an insert clamped between the jaws. A large-diameter hole in a lower-jaw side of the holder communicates with a lower-jaw channel, and a threaded hole in an upper-jaw side of the holder communicates with an upper-jaw channel. A threaded member has a head, a closed-bottom hollow open to the head, branch holes through which the hollow communicates with an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a screw-driving portion in a front end thereof. The threaded member is inserted from the large-diameter hole and screwed into the threaded hole until a front surface of the head seats on a bearing surface of the large-diameter hole and clamps the insert. Then, the large diameter hole, the lower-jaw channel, the hollow, the branch holes, and the upper-jaw channel are in communication for supplying coolant to the insert.

A clamping block receives a parting blade having an internal coolant guide. The clamping block includes a parting blade seat having a contact face for a lateral face of the parting blade. The parting blade may be received in a first installation direction and in a second installation direction. A first coolant exit opening for transferring coolant into the parting blade in the first installation direction, and a second coolant exit opening for transferring coolant into the parting blade in the second installation direction, are configured on the contact face. A first internal coolant duct structure connects the first coolant exit opening so as to communicate with at least two different first coolant entry openings, and a second internal coolant duct structure connects the second coolant exit opening so as to communicate with at least two different second coolant entry openings.

A cutting tool assembly includes a parting blade and a blade holder for holding same. The cutting tool assembly is configured for conveying pressurized coolant via the holder to a cutting portion of the parting blade. The blade holder includes a deceleration chamber configured for reducing the impact of the pressurized coolant against the parting blade.

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 parting lathe tool for machining metal is described. This has a clamping seat for receiving a cutting insert and an internal coolant supply system for supplying coolant to a cutting zone. In this case, the coolant supply system comprises at least three coolant outlets. The coolant outlets are fluidically connected to a coolant supply port via at least two separate coolant lines running within the parting lathe tool.

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 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.

A cutting tool includes a tool body having a peripherally disposed outer insert receiving pocket and an interiorly disposed inner insert receiving pocket with a cutting insert resiliently clamped therein. The tool body includes a through recess at least partially circumferentially bounded by a recess circumferential surface. A resilient clamping member extends into the through recess. The inner insert receiving pocket is formed by the resilient clamping member and a recess pocket portion of the recess circumferential surface. A chamfering cutting insert may be retained by the resilient clamping member, without the use of an additional, separate clamping device.

A method for cutting a groove of a predetermined groove width in a work piece, including the steps of providing a metallic work piece having a peripheral surface; providing a grooving tool including a blade portion having a constant or substantially constant blade width, and an insert having a maximum insert width defined by a main cutting edge; selecting the insert width to be greater than the blade width; connecting the grooving tool to a machine interface of a machine tool; rotating the work piece about a rotational axis thereof in a rotational direction; and cutting a groove in the work piece by moving the tool in a feed direction towards the rotational axis of the work piece, such that the groove width is equal to or substantially equal to the insert width and such that a tangential cutting force is directed towards or substantially towards the machine interface.