| US 7,597,507 B2 | ||
| Insert type cutting instrument and insert, method for attaching insert to insert main body | ||
| Tomoyoshi Sakamoto, Abiko (Japan); and Touru Narita, Toride (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 26, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/627,500. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-020949 (JP), filed on Jan. 30, 2006; and application No. 2006-277479 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0177951 A1, Aug. 02, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B23C 5/20 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 407—40 [407/53; 407/54; 407/113] | 9 Claims |
| 1. An insert type cuffing instrument, comprising:
an insert formed as a flat polygonal plate, and which has an upper surface formed as a rake surface and a lower surface facing
opposite the upper surface;
an instrument main body allowed to rotate centering round an axis, and which has a recessed portion formed on an outer side
surface of a head portion of the instrument main body;
an insert seat formed on a wall surface of the recessed portion facing in a normal rotation direction of the instrument main
body, and to which the insert is attached so that the lower surface of the insert contacts the insert seat and the upper surface
of the insert faces in the normal rotation direction of the instrument main body; and
first and second clamping screw members for attaching the insert to the insert seat; wherein
a first through-hole which goes through the upper surface of the insert and the lower surface, and a second through-hole which
goes through the upper surface and the lower surface and which is located closer to a tip of the instrument main body than
the first through-hole when the insert is mounted on the insert seat are formed in the insert,
a first screw hole and a second screw hole located closer to the tip of the instrument main body than the first screw hole
are formed in the insert seat of the instrument main body so that the first screw hole separates from the second screw hole
in the axial direction and so that each of the first screw hole and the second screw hole is orthogonal to an attachment surface
of the insert seat,
the first clamping screw member is allowed to be screwed into the first screw hole through the first through-hole of the insert,
and the second clamping screw member in allowed to be screwed into the second screw hole through the second through-hole of
the insert,
in a condition where the insert is attached to the insert seat by the first and second clamping screw members, the insert
is mounted on the insert seat so that the center of the first screw hole is located closer to the axis of the instrument main
body than the center of the first through-hole and is located closer to a base end of the instrument main body than the center
of the first through-hole, and the center of the second screw hole is located closer to the axis of the instrument main body
than the center of the second through-hole and is located closer to the base end of the instrument main body than the center
of the second through-hole, and
a degree θ1 of a first inclination angle formed by the intersection of a straight line passing through the center of the first screw
hole and the center of the first through-hole with the axis is equal to or less than a degree θ2 of a second inclination angle formed by the intersection of a straight line passing through the center of the second screw
hole and the center of the second through-hole with the axis.
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