A face milling tool includes a tool body having an axial front end surface with several seats. Each seat has support surfaces for rotationally locking and supporting a tangential cutting insert in the seat. One of the support surfaces is a flat axial support surface for supporting the tangential cutting insert in an axial direction defined by the central rotation axis. The flat axial support surface extends perpendicular to the central rotation axis and is situated axially foremost in the seat. A side wall of each seat is formed out of round side support surfaces. Each tangential cutting insert includes an axial back side with a flat axial contact surface abutting the flat axial support surface and a projecting member extending axially from the flat axial contact surface and having a circumferential side surface forming out of round side contact surfaces abutting the out of round side support surfaces.

A cutting insert 10 comprises a peripheral side surface 16 comprising a plurality of peripheral side surface parts 16A-16H formed so as to be in rotational symmetry with respect to a central axis AX. In the cutting insert 10, a second end surface 14 is provided with a plurality of inclined surface parts 13A-13H formed so as to be in rotational symmetry with respect to the central axis AX and to be recessed from a peripheral edge part 14A.

Holders are described herein providing secure clamping and/or positioning of cutting inserts. Briefly, a holder for a cutting insert comprises a base and a slot for receiving the cutting insert, wherein the slot forms an angle with the base ranging from 10 degrees to 60 degrees.

A cutting insert has opposing upper and lower surfaces interconnected by a peripheral side surface, an insert axis passing through the upper and lower surfaces, and first and second upper cutting edges formed at the intersection of the upper surface and the peripheral side surface. A lower central protuberance having first, second, third and fourth abutment walls extends downwardly from the lower surface. In a cross-section taken in a first horizontal plane perpendicular to the insert axis and intersecting the lower central protuberance, the first, second, third and fourth abutment walls define an imaginary quadrilateral having diagonally opposing first and third internal angles and diagonally opposing second and fourth internal angles. The first and third internal angles are equal to each other, and the second and fourth internal angles are not equal to each other. Two cutting inserts are removably secured in a rotary cutting tool.

A cutting insert has a plate shape centered on an insert center axis. The cutting insert includes a front surface and a back surface facing an insert axial direction, an outer peripheral surface facing outward in an insert radial direction, and a cutting edge at an intersecting ridge line between the front surface and the outer peripheral surface. The back surface has a flat shape perpendicular to the insert center axis. The outer peripheral surface includes a flank surface coupled. The flank surface is inclined inward in the insert radial direction as extending in the insert axial direction from the front surface side to the back surface side. The front surface includes a rake surface. The rake surface is inclined from a back surface side to a front surface side in the insert axial direction as extending inward in the insert radial direction from the cutting edge.

A cutting insert and a shoulder milling tool are disclosed. The cutting insert includes a surface-wiping secondary cutting edge inclined in relation to a median plane of the cutting insert, such that a distance to the median plane decreases in a direction toward a corner cutting edge. A circumferential surface includes a clearance surface extending along a main cutting edge. The clearance surface along the main cutting edge extends at an acute angle to the median plane, such that the clearance surface forms a negative nominal clearance angle, and wherein the circumferential surface includes first and second abutment surfaces configured for abutment against axial and/or radial support surfaces of the milling tool, the abutment surfaces extending along at least part of the main cutting edge and the surface-wiping secondary cutting edge.

A set of cutting inserts includes a stem portion, a plurality of branch portions attached to and extending from the stem portion, and at least one cutting insert attached to each of the plurality of branch portions. The stem portion has a longitudinal axis extending between a top end of the stem portion and a bottom end of the stem portion and at least one of the top end of the stem portion is disposed along the longitudinal axis above uppermost portions of each cutting insert, and the bottom end of the stem portion is disposed along the longitudinal axis below lowermost portions of each cutting insert. Also, methods for manufacturing a set of cutting inserts are disclosed.

A single-sided three-way indexable milling insert for 90° shoulder milling operations, includes a positive basic shape, a rake surface, a peripheral surface including side abutment surfaces, a base bearing surface and a screw hole connecting the rake and base bearing surfaces. The insert has three main cutting edges which lie along an imaginary equilateral triangle. A material volume V.sub.F of the cutting insert and a void volume V.sub.S of the insert's screw hole fulfill the condition V.sub.S/V.sub.F≥0.30.

A cutting insert includes a first end surface and a second end surface, in which a first peripheral side surface includes a first rake surface adjacent to a first main cutting edge and a first concave surface connected to the second end surface and formed to be recessed from the first rake surface toward a central axis of a through hole, and the first concave surface has a first restraint surface provided at a position where a distance between the first restraint surface and a second main cutting edge is smaller than a distance between the central axis of the through hole and the second main cutting edge, when viewed from a direction parallel to the central axis of the through hole.

A cutting insert includes: an upper face including a virtual reference surface and an upper inclined surface extending to be inclined upward from the virtual reference surface; a lower face disposed below the upper face and including a lower inclined surface extending to be inclined with respect to the virtual reference surface; and a plurality of side faces connecting the upper face and the lower face. An insert bore is formed to penetrate through the upper face and the lower face along a central axis perpendicular to the virtual reference surface. A major cutting edge is formed at an edge at which the upper inclined surface meets any one side face among the plurality of side faces. A first angle between the side face, on which the major cutting edge is formed, and the upper inclined surface is greater than a second angle between the central axis and the lower inclined surface.