A milling tool is disclosed. The milling tool may include an elongated body having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of cutting inserts. The cutting inserts may each have a cutting edge and a cutting radius and be coupled to the body and spaced along the longitudinal axis. One or more of the plurality of cutting inserts may be adjustable (e.g., mechanically adjustable) between first and second cutting radii. A difference between the first and second cutting radii may be at least 10 m. The milling tool may include cutting inserts having a plurality of different cutting radii. The milling tool may be configured to have a length that spans an entire height of an engine bore. The cutting inserts having different radii may compensate for dimensional errors in an engine bore diameter that occur when milling a deep pocket.

A cutting tool includes a tool holder, having a holder pocket with a pocket opening, and a cutting member releasably retained therein. The tool holder includes an adjustment cavity that includes circumferentially merging threaded and guiding bore portions. The tool holder further includes an adjustment arrangement that includes an adjustment member including a wedge adjustment portion and a guiding portion integrally formed therewith. The adjusting arrangement further includes an adjustment screw. The wedge adjustment portion is located in the pocket adjustment region and the guiding portion is located in the guiding bore portion and partially protrudes into the threaded bore portion. The adjustment screw is threadingly rotatable between a first rotated position and a second rotated position, and in the second rotated position the adjustment member, and thus the cutting member, is located closer to the pocket opening than in the first rotated position.

A cutting tool includes a cartridge-receiving pocket, and an adjustable cartridge assembly mounted in the cartridge-receiving pocket. The adjustable cartridge assembly includes a cartridge with an insert-receiving pocket and a wedge. The wedge has planar surfaces formed at taper angles of between greater than zero degrees and less than or equal to about five degrees that contact the bottom wall of the cartridge to move a cutting insert mounted in the insert-receiving pocket of the cartridge in a direction of a central axis of the cutting tool. The planar surfaces are at different distances from a central axis of the wedge to place the wedge in a minus, nominal or plus orientation, respectively.

A cutting tool includes a tool holder, having a holder pocket with a pocket opening, and a cutting member releasably retained therein. The tool holder includes an adjustment cavity that includes circumferentially merging threaded and guiding bore portions. The tool holder further includes an adjustment arrangement that includes an adjustment member including a wedge adjustment portion and a guiding portion integrally formed therewith. The adjusting arrangement further includes an adjustment screw. The wedge adjustment portion is located in the pocket adjustment region and the guiding portion is located in the guiding bore portion and partially protrudes into the threaded bore portion. The adjustment screw is threadingly rotatable between a first rotated position and a second rotated position, and in the second rotated position the adjustment member, and thus the cutting member, is located closer to the pocket opening than in the first rotated position.

A cutting tool includes a cartridge-receiving pocket, and an adjustable cartridge assembly mounted in the cartridge-receiving pocket. The adjustable cartridge assembly includes a cartridge with an insert-receiving pocket and a wedge. The wedge has planar surfaces formed at taper angles of between greater than zero degrees and less than or equal to about five degrees that contact the bottom wall of the cartridge to move a cutting insert mounted in the insert-receiving pocket of the cartridge in a direction of a central axis of the cutting tool. The planar surfaces are at different distances from a central axis of the wedge to place the wedge in a minus, nominal or plus orientation, respectively.

Methods, systems and tools are provided for controllable adjustment of a removal rate of cutting edges of rapidly rotating effectors of manually-guided material- and tissue-separating tools without significantly changing the rotation speed of the effectors or the position, orientation or the geometry of the effectors, and in particular, for precisely maintaining work space boundaries during material and tissue removal with effectors in rapidly rotating machine tools in surgery and freehand manufacturing to produce free-form surfaces. The manually-guided material-separating and tissue-separating tools and effectors allow controllable adjustment of the removal rate of the material-separating cutting edges of the effector by mechanically adjusting a position or orientation of at least one cutting edge cover at a constant rotation speed of the effector without appreciable change of the removal movement.

Described herein is an orbital drilling system that includes an orbital drilling machine and a cutter. The orbital drilling machine includes a spindle and an eccentric rotation mechanism. The spindle is rotatable about a cutter axis. The eccentric rotation mechanism is coupled to the spindle and configured to orbit the spindle about an orbital axis, offset from the cutter axis. The cutter is co-rotatably coupled to the spindle and comprises a plurality of cutting edges, collectively defining a cutting diameter of the cutter. The cutting diameter of the cutter is adjustable.

Described herein is an orbital drilling system that includes an orbital drilling machine and a cutter. The orbital drilling machine includes a spindle and an eccentric rotation mechanism. The spindle is rotatable about a cutter axis. The eccentric rotation mechanism is coupled to the spindle and configured to orbit the spindle about an orbital axis, offset from the cutter axis. The cutter is co-rotatably coupled to the spindle and comprises a plurality of cutting edges, collectively defining a cutting diameter of the cutter. The cutting diameter of the cutter is adjustable.

A milling tool is disclosed. The milling tool may include an elongated body having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of cutting inserts. The cutting inserts may each have a cutting edge and a cutting radius and be coupled to the body and spaced along the longitudinal axis. One or more of the plurality of cutting inserts may be adjustable (e.g., mechanically adjustable) between first and second cutting radii. A difference between the first and second cutting radii may be at least 10 m. The milling tool may include cutting inserts having a plurality of different cutting radii. The milling tool may be configured to have a length that spans an entire height of an engine bore. The cutting inserts having different radii may compensate for dimensional errors in an engine bore diameter that occur when milling a deep pocket.

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.