A tapping tool for producing a threaded bore having an internal thread in a workpiece. The tapping tool has a main cutting edge on its drill tip and a thread profile trailing in a tapping direction. The method has a tapping stroke in which the tapping tool is driven into the workpiece at a tapping feed rate in the tapping direction and at a tapping speed synchronized therewith and the main cutting edge of the tool produces a core hole bore and the tool thread profile forms an internal thread on the inner wall of the core hole bore. Chips are produced in the tapping stroke, which are conveyed out of the threaded bore in a chip removal direction opposite to the tapping direction and collide with thread flanks of the internal thread facing toward the chips to be removed.

A tapping tool for producing a threaded bore having an internal thread in a workpiece. The tapping tool has a main cutting edge on its drill tip and a thread profile trailing in a tapping direction. The method has a tapping stroke in which the tapping tool is driven into the workpiece at a tapping feed rate in the tapping direction and at a tapping speed synchronized therewith and the main cutting edge of the tool produces a core hole bore and the tool thread profile forms an internal thread on the inner wall of the core hole bore. Chips are produced in the tapping stroke, which are conveyed out of the threaded bore in a chip removal direction opposite to the tapping direction and collide with thread flanks of the internal thread facing toward the chips to be removed.

A cutting tap includes thread ridges, roots formed between the respective axially adjacent pairs of thread ridges, and a plurality of deburring thread grooves arranged at a constant pitch toward the axial front side of the cutting tap from the rearmost ones of the roots in which the deburring thread grooves are formed, and formed such that a groove bottom diameter of the deburring thread grooves gradually decreases toward the axial front side of the cutting tap. The respective deburring thread grooves have groove bottom diameter reliefs by which the groove bottom dimeter gradually decreases from the front side toward the rear side of each deburring thread groove in the rotation direction of the cutting tap, the groove bottom diameter reliefs being set to be larger than effective diameter reliefs of the thread grooves.

A cutting tap includes thread ridges, roots formed between the respective axially adjacent pairs of thread ridges, and a plurality of deburring thread grooves arranged at a constant pitch toward the axial front side of the cutting tap from the rearmost ones of the roots in which the deburring thread grooves are formed, and formed such that a groove bottom diameter of the deburring thread grooves gradually decreases toward the axial front side of the cutting tap. The respective deburring thread grooves have groove bottom diameter reliefs by which the groove bottom dimeter gradually decreases from the front side toward the rear side of each deburring thread groove in the rotation direction of the cutting tap, the groove bottom diameter reliefs being set to be larger than effective diameter reliefs of the thread grooves.