A movable fixture for milling rail heads of slide rails arranged in a track bed includes: a rotating milling head mounted in a milling head drive mechanism supported by a chassis. The milling head has at least one cutting tooth comprising several cutting plates for milling the rail heads and a disc-shaped tool carrier connected to the milling head drive mechanism. The tool carrier includes cassettes assembled with cutting plates arranged around their periphery. The cassettes are arranged in several carrier segments connected to the tool carrier so they can be detached. The cassettes are arranged peripherally on the tool carrier with at least two assembled cutting plates, the cassettes being different with regard to at least one of: a number of cutting teeth; distances of the cutting teeth from each other; rake angle of the individual cutting plates; or inclination angle of the individual cutting plates.

Cutting insert cartridge for chip removing machining tools has an axial adjustment system threadedly engaged with a cartridge body and a tool body. The axial adjustment system includes a differential screw in threaded engagement with the tool body either directly, for example by threaded engagement with a threaded opening in the tool body, or indirectly, for example by threaded engagement with a cross dowel fastener slidably positioned in an opening in the tool body. Actuation portion positioned axially between threaded end portions of the differential screw has an engagement feature on an outer surface to be driven, e.g., with a tool or by hand, to rotate the differential screw and adjust the axial position of the cartridge. The spaced apart relationship improves access to the actuation portion and engagement feature for rotation of the differential screw. Chip removing machining tools with such cartridges and methods of machining are also disclosed.

A cutting edge adjustment device for a cutting tool for adjusting the position of a cutting edge of a cutting insert by causing movement of the cutting insert includes a rotary member for producing the movement. The rotary member is formed into a shape in which a substantially cylindrical portion having a constant radius and a cam portion having a cam face whose radius is gradually increased in a manner corresponding to the amount of the movement are arranged in a direction of a rotational center axis. The cam face is formed in such a manner as to have a section in which a radius is linearly increased, and consequently, the unit rotational angle of the rotary member on the rotational center axis is proportional to the unit movement amount of the cutting insert.

A tool for the turning/turn broaching of workpieces is provided, including a carrier which can be attached directly or indirectly to a machine tool with a plurality of segments which are fastened to the carrier. Each of the segments is provided with a plurality of tool bits. In addition, each of the segments is attached to the carrier by at least two fastening elements, which act obliquely to a plane (E) lying perpendicular to the rotational axis (R) of the tool.

An adzer bit includes a support member that defines a through hole that is configured to receive a fastener. The support member includes a cutting segment cap portion and a base portion. The support member also defines an annular slot that is axially disposed between the cutting segment cap portion and the base portion. A plurality of cutting segments are received and secured in the annular slot. The material of the plurality of cutting segments is harder than the material of the support member.

This invention relates to face milling tools used to create a generally planar/face surface on a workpiece. Embodiments of this invention allow more teeth per unit tool diameter for certain types of cutting insert mounting styles and generally for larger cutting inserts. In particular, this invention allows the aforementioned while keeping manufacturing cost lower than it could be with some other designs, mainly by allowing manufacture of the face mill using larger tools that approach the face mill from mainly or exclusively the axial direction, thus requiring the equipment used to manufacture the cutter body to be a lower cost three-axis machine as compared to four- and five-axis machines that may be otherwise needed. Embodiments of the invention also permit adjustment of the axial positions of multiple cutting inserts and their support pockets by way of adjustment in the face mill manufacturing process. Other embodiments allow the adjustment to be made by the end-user in the field on a case-by-case basis after manufacture of the face mill is complete.

A crankshaft milling cutter has a disc-shaped main body rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the disc plane and on the periphery recesses for receiving indexable cutting inserts for removing an allowance on the crankshaft blank. At least some of the recesses are open both in the radial direction and in at least one axial direction of the main body and a first group of said recesses receives cutting inserts designed for removing the allowance on an oil collar adjoining a shaft journal. To provide a crankshaft milling cutter able to meet the increasing requirements with regard to dimensional and positional tolerances placed on a crankshaft milling cutter and at the same time reduces the time needed for fine adjustment of the crankshaft milling cutter, only some of the first group of recesses has devices for setting the axial position of the indexable cutting insert received in each case therein.

A method for milling a planar surface, during which a milling cutter, an axis of rotation of which is perpendicular to a surface to be machined, is moved in a direction parallel to the plane of the surface, to machine the surface in a single machining operation, over a predetermined layer of material, using a single milling head, and the milling cutter, in a same axial position relative to the surface to be machined, simultaneously carries out rough working, at least one intermediate finishing operation, and a finishing operation over a same layer of material.

An indexable cutting tool of a lever-lock type applies a clamping force. At a bottom of an insert fixing portion, there is formed a pillar-shaped lever in a state in which one end protrudes from a placement surface of the insert fixing portion. A screw applies a pressing force to the lever between the one end and a portion such that the lever is pressed and inclined with the portion s a fulcrum in the middle of the lever so that the one end applies a clamping force to the cutting insert.

A cutting tool is rotatable about a central axis and has a front end in an axial direction along the central axis. The cutting tool includes a body, a blade, a first attachment screw, an adjustment piece, and a second attachment screw. The body has an outer peripheral surface. A pocket is formed in the outer peripheral surface at an end portion on the front end side. The blade is attached to the body by screwing the first attachment screw into the body in the pocket. The blade has a blade side surface facing inward in a radial direction that is orthogonal to the axial direction and that passes through the central axis. An inner wall surface of the pocket has a contact surface facing the blade side surface with a space being interposed between the blade side surface and the contact surface in the radial direction.