A cutting insert of one aspect includes a top surface including a corner portion and a pair of side portions each adjacent to the corner portion, a bottom surface, a side surface located between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a corner cutting edge disposed at the corner portion. In such a cutting insert, the top surface includes a first rake surface located along the corner cutting edge, a raised portion located farther on the inner side than the first rake surface, and a second rake surface located between the corner cutting edge and the raised portion. Moreover, a rake angle at a first region of the second rake surface corresponding to a center of the corner cutting edge is greater than a rake angle at a second region of the second rake surface located beside the first region.

A cutting tool includes a cutting edge member. The cutting edge member forms a corner portion. The cutting edge member includes a cutting edge formed at the intersection of a rake surface and a flank, at least two breaker wall surfaces and at least one convex portion. The cutting edge includes a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge connected thereto. The second cutting edge is situated at the corner portion. Each breaker wall surface is formed to extend along the cutting edge. The convex portion is formed between the two breaker wall surfaces spaced from each other to protrude relatively toward the cutting edge side. A part of the convex portion is situated around a connecting portion of the first and second cutting edges.

Chip discharge during high-feed machining and low-feed machining particularly in a high-depth-of-cut state or the like is improved so as to provide adaptability to a wide range of cutting conditions during low depth and high depth cutting and during low-feed and high-feed machining and allow so-called freedom of feed during cutting to be improved. A cutting insert includes a cutting edge body and a substrate to which the cutting edge body is joined. The cutting edge body has a prismatic shape having a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and includes a cutting edge formed on an intersecting edge between a peripheral side surface and an upper surface of the cutting edge body having the prismatic shape and a recessed part formed at a position on the upper surface of the cutting edge body which is more distant from the intersecting edge than from the cutting edge. The substrate has a projected part upwardly projecting from the upper surface of the cutting edge body.

A cutting insert has a cutting corner, having a bisector, located on a top surface of the cutting insert. A chip-control arrangement is located at the cutting corner. The chip-control arrangement includes a projection protruding from the top end face and that extends longitudinally in a direction transverse to, and to opposites sides of, the bisector. The chip-control arrangement also includes a protrusion protruding from the top end face and comprising a protrusion ridge that extends from the projection towards a corner cutting edge at the cutting corner.

The cutting insert is provided with: a top surface, a bottom surface, a side surface, a cutting edge located at the intersection portion of the top surface and the side surface; a through hole located from the top surface to the bottom surface; a projecting portion extending from a corner section to a through hole side; and a rake surface located between the cutting edge and the projecting portion. A boundary line between the rake surface and the projecting portion comprises a first end. In a top view, a bisector of the corner section intersects the cutting edge at a first point and intersects a top edge section of the through-hole at a second point. The first end is located closer to the through-hole side than a perpendicular line that passes through a midpoint of a line segment connecting the first point and the second point.

A cutting insert according to an embodiment of the present invention has a body section and a cutting section located closer to a front end side than the body section. The cutting section has an end cutting edge located along an intersection of an upper surface and a side surface, a recess located from the end cutting edge toward the body section, and a pair of protrusions opposed to each other with the recess interposed therebetween. The pair of protrusions has a first protrusion and a second protrusion located on the first protrusion. The first protrusion has a first inclined surface that is inclined upward and approaches another one of the pair of protrusions as going from the front end side toward the rear end side. A periphery of the second protrusion which is close to the front end side has a convex curvilinear shape in a top view.

The invention relates to an interchangeable cutting insert (10) having a shank (12), which transitions into a cutting head (14), which has a chipping surface (32), which, when viewed from above, is a segment of a circle with a height greater than the radius of the chipping surface (32), wherein the chord of the segment of a circle constitutes the transition to the shank (12), wherein a cutting edge (30) is formed on the outer edge of the chipping surface and multiple chip-breaking structures (36, 38) are provided on the chipping surface (32), the chip-breaking structures having depressions (36) in the chipping surface (32), between which projections (38) are arranged, which protrude beyond the chipping surface (32).

A method to form a surface on a metal work piece includes providing a turning insert that has a nose angle formed between first and second cutting edges less than or equal to 85; providing a turning tool having a tool body with an insert seat in which the turning insert is mountable; arranging the orientation of the second cutting edge such that it forms a back clearance angle of more than 90 in a feed direction; rotating the metal work piece around a rotational axis in a first direction; moving the turning insert in a direction parallel to or at an angle less than 45 relative to the rotational axis; and setting the longitudinal axis of the tool body at an angle greater than zero but less than or equal to 90 relative to the rotational axis of the metal work piece.

A method to form a surface on a metal work piece includes providing a turning insert having a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge and a convex nose cutting edge connecting the first and second cutting edges, a nose angle formed between the first and second cutting edges being less than or equal to 85; arranging the second cutting edge such that it forms a back clearance angle of more than 90 in a feed direction; positioning all parts of the turning insert ahead of the nose cutting edge in the feed direction; rotating the metal work piece around a rotational axis in a first direction; and moving the turning insert in a direction parallel to or at an angle less than 45 relative to the rotational axis, such that the surface at least partly is formed by the nose cutting edge.

A swiss insert includes a chip former arrangement. The chip former arrangement includes a ridge separated on each side from a cutting edge's sub-edge by a chip surface. In a side view, each sub-edge extends in a straight line.