Patent ID: 9597738
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B23C,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method for milling a planar surface, comprising: moving a milling cutter, a rotation axis of which is perpendicular to a surface to be machined, in a direction parallel to a plane of the surface so as to machine the surface to be machined in a single machining operation to a predetermined material thickness by a single milling head including two or more of sets of cutting tips distributed around the milling head, each of the sets including a first tip having a first cutting edge, a second tip having a second cutting edge, and a third tip having a third cutting edge, the cutting edges being offset radially with respect to one another at a same axial position on the milling cutter; and the milling cutter simultaneously carrying out, in a same axial position with respect to the surface to be machined, a rough machining operation via the first tip, at least one intermediate finish machining operation via the second tip, and a finish machining operation via the third tip, to a same material thickness.