Cutting tool for planing gear tooth flanks
US4557639A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 13, 1984 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 13, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T407/27
- WIPO fieldMachine tools
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Two cutting tool inserts are fastened at each side of a cutting tool insert holder to have their active primary cutting edges aligned. A third cutting tool insert is displaced in relation to the other two cutting tool inserts in the cutting direction such that its active primary cutting edge overlaps in extent the active primary cutting edges of the two aligned cutting tool inserts. This produces an effective total length of the cutting edges which corresponds to the sum of the edge lengths of the three cutting tool inserts less the two overlapping regions. Should one of the cutting tool inserts chip or break off in the region of the overlapping active primary cutting edges, the planing or shaping of hardened gear tooth flanks of a roughed-out gear blank or workpiece can nevertheless be continued since such chipping of the cutting edge has no detrimental influence on the workpiece due to the overlapping.
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