Provided is a cutting insert and a cutting tool equipped with the cutting tool improving the force to clamp the insert and improving the strength of the insert and the chip dischargeability. The cutting insert includes: an upper surface, which is a first end surface; a lower surface, which is a surface on an opposite side to the upper surface, and is a second end surface having an installing surface for installing a cutting tool; a screw hole which has an axial line penetrating from the upper surface to the lower surface; a peripheral side surface which is formed such that the upper surface and the lower surface are connected; a major cutting edge and an inner cutting edge which are formed in an intersecting region between the upper surface and the peripheral side surface, and an intersecting region between the lower surface and the peripheral side surface, respectively; and a constraining surface which is formed on the peripheral side surface so as to at least partially contact with a body. An angle of the major cutting edge and an angle of the constraining surface are different in a top view viewed from the upper surface, and the angle of the major cutting edge is smaller than the angle of the constraining surface.

In a cutting tool rotatable about a tool axis, a reversible cutting insert is removably secured in a tool body. The cutting insert has opposing top and bottom end surfaces interconnected by a peripheral surface, and a median plane located therebetween. The peripheral surface includes four side surfaces alternating with four corner surfaces, the side and corner surfaces intersecting the top surface to form top major cutting edges and top corner cutting edges, respectively. Each side surface has a median surface and a top major relief surface. Each top major relief surface forms an acute internal top major relief angle with the median plane, and the median plane intersects the four median surfaces to define an imaginary median square. In a top end view of the cutting insert, the four top major cutting edges define an imaginary top major square rotationally offset from the imaginary median square.

A rotatable cutter wheel of a material reduction machine, the cutter wheel including a drive plate configured to be mounted on the material reduction machine for rotation in a forward rotation direction about a central axis. The drive plate includes a central driveshaft aperture and an outer peripheral edge. A wear plate is positioned along a first axial side of the drive plate and removably coupled to the drive plate. A cutter is removably coupled for rotation with the drive plate via a fastener. A wear insert is positioned to cover a portion of the outer peripheral edge of the drive plate, the wear insert being mounted to the wear plate and held in spaced relation to the outer peripheral edge of the drive plate.

A milling insert for a side and face milling tool includes an upper side defining an upper extension plane, a lower side defining a lower extension plane, and a side surface extending between the upper and the lower sides around a periphery of the insert that includes a main radial clearance surface, two opposite axial clearance surfaces and two corner clearance surfaces. At least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper and the side surfaces, wherein each cutting edge includes a main cutting edge extending above the main radial clearance surface and two corner cutting edges extending above the corner clearance surfaces on opposite sides of the main cutting edge. The main cutting edge slopes downward toward a midpoint of the main cutting edge and the main cutting edge and the main radial clearance surface slope outward from the corner cutting edges toward the midpoint.

A toolholder (10) has a pocket (20) that accommodates two styles of cutting inserts (25, 25′) having different clearance angles (CA). A support pad (78, 80) protrudes from two side walls (82, 84) of the pocket (20). Each support pad (78, 80) includes a first, planar wall (78a, 80a) and a second, planar wall (78b, 80b) formed at a composite angle defined by a first angle (92) and a second angle (94). The first, planar wall (78a, 80a) enables the pocket (20) to accommodate the second style of cutting insert (25′), and the second, planar wall (78b, 80b) enables the pocket (20) to accommodate the first style of cutting insert (25). In one aspect, the support pads (78, 80) extend the entire length, L, of the support pad (78, 80). In another aspect, an indentation (112, 114) divides one or both of the support pads (178, 180) into two portions, each portion having two planar walls (178a, 178b, 178c, 178d, 180a, 180b, 180c, 180d).

Provided is a cutting insert which is resistant to breakage and can stably be restrained. A cutting insert configured as a vertically mounted insert has a first rake face adjacent to a first major cutting edge, a second rake face adjacent to a second major cutting edge, a restraint surface located further inward than the first and second rake faces to come into contact with a tool body when a second end surface is used, and a reinforcing portion projecting from the restraint surface. The reinforcing portion has a third projecting ridge provided to extend between the first and second rake faces and halve the restraint surface, a first projecting ridge connected to one end of the third projecting ridge to extend so as to cover at least a portion of a boundary between the first rake face and the restraint surface, and a second projecting ridge connected to another end of the third projecting ridge so as to cover at least a portion of a boundary between the second rake face and the restraint surface.

A cutting insert for a cutting tool includes a body having a cutting edge, a rake face, and micro channels provided on the rake face adjacent the cutting edge. The micro channels define a grid pattern of micro channels that intersect each other in a region of the rake face where contact between a chip and the rake face is assumed to occur during cutting with the cutting insert.

A trigonal cutting insert for a shoulder milling tool includes an upper side, an opposite lower side and a peripheral side surface. A plurality of indexable cutting edges extend along corners of the cutting insert, each cutting edge having a main cutting edge, a corner cutting edge, and a surface-wiping secondary cutting edge. The upper side includes a recessed central surface, and a plurality of positively inclined rake surfaces having a main rake surface portion, a corner rake surface portion, and a secondary rake surface portion. A concave indentation is formed in the corner rake surface portion and in at least an initial part of the main rake surface portion adjacent to the corner rake surface portion, wherein the concave indentation has an elongated shape.

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 cutting insert has an upper surface having a long side, a short side, a lower surface, a lateral surface and a through hole. The lateral surface has a first lateral surface. The first lateral surface has a first plane that is overlapped with a central axis of the through hole in a front view and is parallel to the central axis, a second plane that is located closer to the short side than the first plane and is parallel to the central axis, a third plane that is located more away from the short side than the first plane and is parallel to the central axis, and a first inclined surface that is located between the second plane and the upper surface and comes closer to the central axis as coming closer to the long side. The first inclined surface is located away from the first plane.