Cemented Carbide Forming Milling Cutter 4 Flutes

Product Description

(a) Form Cutters:

These are designed to produce a specific shape on the workpiece. One of the examples is the side and face milling cutters (Refer Fig. 16.46).

It may be noted that it has teeth on the circumferential surface as well as on both sides. The teeth may be either staggered or straight.

Another example of form cutters is the thread milling cutter in which formed cutter is shaped to mill screw threads having pitch equal to tooth pitch of the cutter (Refer Fig. 16.47).

Various other types of form milling cutters are convex milling cutters, concave milling cutters, corner-rounding milling cutters, pocket milling cutters, spindle milling cutters, form milling gang cutters, etc.

(b) Shaped or Form Profile Cutters:

In these cutters, sharpening is done by grinding a small land back of the cutting edge. As the contour is to be exactly reproduced each time the sharpening is done, therefore, its application is limited to simple outlines. These may be either solid or inserted blade type.