A method of grinding 3-face ground cutting blades for producing gears by a face hobbing cutting process wherein the correct initial blade spacing angle is achieved while providing the desired values for the effective cutting edge hook angle and the effective side rake angle as well as providing a complete cutting blade front face clean-up.

A cutter head (40) having cutting blade positioning slots (50, 52) wherein a portion of the positioning slots accommodate cutting blades (42) for right-hand cutting and another portion of the positioning slots accommodate cutting blades (46) for left-hand cutting.

A method and cutting tool for producing spiral toothed face couplings whereby a two-part cutter and a two-part machine tool spindle are not needed. The process includes a set-over between the cutting of convex (41) and concave (43) tooth surfaces and the tool (59) comprises inside and outside cutting blades positioned in a single cutter head blade slot (57) and separated from one another by a blade spacing angle (51).

A bevel gear manufacturing face cutter head (2) for face hobbing and face milling wherein the cutter head includes positive blade seating surfaces (16, 18) and the capability to clamp the blades (8) tight to the positive seating surfaces and to adjust the cutting blades radially after they are pre-clamped and axially located.

A bevel gear manufacturing face cutter head (2) for face hobbing and face milling. The cutter head has blade positioning slots (20) having a four-sided shaped cross-section and positive blade seating surfaces (22, 24). The cutter head also has the capability to clamp cutting blades (8) tight to the positive blade seating surfaces and to adjust the cutting blades radially after they are pre-clamped and axially located.

A cutter head (4, 6) having a lock spring (30) utilized with an adjustment screw (16) for preventing the adjustment screw from loosening during machining. Once positioned by turning the adjustment screw, a cutting blade (8) will not change position in a mounting slot (10) due to a loosening adjustment screw.

A bevel gear manufacturing face cutter head (2) for face hobbing and face milling wherein the face cutter head includes a positive blade seating and stick-type rectangular or square cross-section cutting blades (6) are clamped tight to the positive seating surfaces (14, 18). The cutting blades are adjustable radially by axial movement by a non-self-locking system.