A prismatic and cylindrical cutting insert for long edge rotary milling applications has multiple indexable cutting edges ranging from four to six or even more depending on the actual milling applications. Each cutting edge of a prismatic or cylindrical cutting insert provides a positive cutting geometry and is equivalent to an indexable cutting edge of a traditional single-sided parallelogram-shaped cutting insert having two indexable cutting edges (often referred as A-Style insert). The prismatic and cylindrical (including tapered or conical) cutting insert may be used for machining a wide range of materials including difficult-to-machine materials, cast-iron and alloys, aluminum and alloys, carbon steels, and fiber reinforced composites.

A blade positioning structure of a disposable milling cutter includes a cutter body and a disposable blade. The cutter body is peripherally provided with a blade seat. By passing a screw through the disposable blade and the blade seat, the disposable blade is locked to the blade seat. The blade seat has a blade seat surface and a sidewall; the blade seat surface has a groove; the disposable blade has a bottom surface provided with a projection corresponding in shape to the groove; and when the disposable blade is locked to the blade seat, the blade seat surface and the groove of the latter lie respectively and tightly against the bottom surface and the projection of the former.

A cutting tool has a tool body having at least one pocket, at least one cutting insert releasably fixed to the pocket and a fastening device for securing the insert in the pocket. The pocket has a raised portion) with a flat upper support face arranged to be received in a recess of the insert and support the insert by receiving a bottom surface of the recess bearing on the support face. A projecting member of the raised portion has delimiting walls designed to bear against border walls of the recess of an insert for establishing mutual contact therewith and prevent rotation of the insert in the pocket by receiving a rotational moment acting on the insert in an active chip-removing state of the tool.

A cutting tool has an insert receiving pocket provided with a base surface. The base surface has a screw hole, and second and third engagement surfaces which are brought into contact with a first engagement surface formed in the lower surface of the cutting insert, thereby suppressing shifting of the cutting insert during cutting. The base surface is divided into four areas by a first boundary which passes through the screw hole's center point, and a second boundary is perpendicular to the first boundary and also passing though the center point. The second engagement part is formed on the outer side surface side relative to the first boundary and on the base end side relative to the second boundary, and the third engagement part is formed on the outer side surface side relative to the first boundary and on the leading end surface side relative to the second boundary.

A milling insert suitable for shoulder milling includes a side surface extending between an upper and lower side and a cutting edge having a primary and a secondary cutting edge portion. The side surface includes an axial support surface opposite of the secondary cutting edge portion. The lower side includes a locking groove extending longitudinally, and a lower contact region formed to bear on a fastening member. The upper side has an upper contact region arranged to bear on a top support member of a tool in which the milling insert is mountable. A milling tool is provided with a top support member for bearing on the upper contact region of the milling insert, a locking ridge for locking with the locking groove, and an axial contact surface for supporting the axial support surface. A fastening member presses the milling insert against the top support member and the locking ridge.

A cutting insert includes: two opposite end surfaces; a peripheral side surface extending between the end surfaces; and plural cutting edge sections that are formed along an intersecting ridgeline portion between the peripheral side surface and each of the end surfaces. Each of the cutting edge sections includes a corner cutting edge, a major cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge. A non-cutting intersecting ridgeline area extending between adjacent cutting edge sections on one end surface is located adjacent, via the peripheral side surface, to at least a part of the corner cutting edge and the major cutting edge of an associating cutting edge section on the other end surface.

Railway wheel milling tool system including a railway wheel truing cutters and tangential railway wheel milling inserts are disclosed. The tangential milling inserts have at least four indexable cutting edges, each with a central wiper cutting edge segment between two convex cutting edge segments. The milling inserts may allow both the flat portion and curved portion of a railway wheel to be machined with an improved surface finish. The railway wheel truing cutters comprise a plurality of insert pockets structured and arranged to receive the tangential railway wheel milling inserts.

A cartridge for positioning a cutting insert onto a machining tool has a central longitudinal axis, along which the cutting insert is configured to be positioned and an end wall for supporting the cartridge. The end wall defines a first surface extending beyond the end wall and transversally to the central longitudinal axis. The cartridge includes a rear wall for supporting the cartridge against the machining tool and defining a second surface extending beyond the rear wall and a front clamping wall having a clamping hole. The clamping hole extenda along a clamping direction and is configured to receive a clamping screw for clamping the cartridge onto the machining tool, wherein the clamping direction is arranged to intersect the first and second surfaces.

An indexable cutting insert is suitable for vertical and oblique machining. The cutting insert has top and bottom surfaces, first to fourth side surfaces extending between the top and bottom surfaces, and a screw hole passing through the top and bottom surfaces. The top surface has a mounting surface of a flat surface. The top and bottom surfaces are rotationally symmetric with each other. A cutting edge is formed at a junction between the top surface and the adjacent first and second side surfaces. A non-cutting edge is formed at a junction between the top surface and the adjacent third and fourth side surfaces. The first and second side surfaces form an acute angle with a plane extending from the mounting surface of the top surface. The third and fourth side surfaces form an obtuse angle with the plane extending from the mounting surface of the top surface.

An indexable cutting insert, arranged for being mounted in an insert seat of a tool body of a shoulder milling tool, includes a triangular top surface, a triangular bottom surface, and three circumferential surfaces extending between the top and bottom surface. On each side of the cutting insert an individual one of the three circumferential surfaces extends along an edge of the triangular top surface and along an edge of the triangular bottom surface. The cutting insert includes at each of the top and bottom surfaces three cutting corners, three main cutting edges and three minor cutting edges. Each cutting corner connects a main cutting edge and a minor cutting edge. Each of the cutting corners, each of the main cutting edges and each of the minor cutting edges are provided at an intersection between the top surface or the bottom surface and one of the circumferential surface.