A knife head, particularly for multi-edge lathes having knives held in plates and braceable in their operating position, which plates are adjustable, in order to obtain a radial adjustability of the knives, by means of an eccentric tool which is insertable in a bore in the knife head. There is coordinated to the eccentric tool-insertion bore which is directed onto the rear surface of the plate, a recess laterally offset thereto which is formed in the rear wall of the plate for the insertion therein of an eccentrically offset end of the eccentric tool.
A cutting tool has an adjusting mechanism for a cutting insert. The adjusting mechanism includes a wedge element in the form of a conical head on a set screw, as well as a sleeve mountable in the base body of the tool. Two jaws are included in the sleeve, a first one of which is wider than the second and has two rearwardly directed pressure surfaces for cooperation with two secondary support surfaces in the base body. A front surface on the first jaw is always kept pressed against a rear surface on the cutting insert, whereby the cutting insert is kept in a basic position. When the cutting insert is to be finely-adjusted, the second jaw is activated by tightening the set screw, whereby the second jaw supports itself against the base body, and then the first jaw is set in motion forwards in order to push out the cutting insert axially in fine steps.
A cartridge-type milling cutter is provided having a cartridge mounting mechanism that resists the centrifugal load applied to the cartridges at high rotational speeds. The milling cutter includes a generally cylindrical cutter body, at least one replaceable tool cartridge having a trailing face, and a leading face having a cutting insert for cutting a workpiece, and a mounting mechanism for detachably securing the tool cartridge onto the cutter body. The mounting mechanism includes a recess in the cutter body for receiving the cartridge that includes a radially canted wall for providing dovetail-type resistance to radial movement of the cartridge, and at least one compressively loaded set screw in the cutter body for compressively engaging the leading face of the cartridge in order to seat and retain it within the recess. During the operation of the cutter, the centrifugal load is substantially borne by the combination of the radially canted wall and the set screw. The mounting mechanism preferably also includes a screw, optionally radially-oriented, that passes through a through bore in the sides of the tool cartridge for providing additional insurance against the loosening or breaking away of the cartridge during high speed operation.
