Patent ID: 6520722
Filing Date: 2003-02-18
Classification: B23D,Y10T

Abstract:
A cutting tool comprising a pattern of cutting teeth, each tooth having corners, and including a carbide tip on a steel support member, the carbide tip having a maximum width and a side relief decreasing the width of the tip from the maximum width toward the steel support member, wherein the pattern of cutting teeth comprises:a tooth having a symmetric ground tooth form, and at least one pair of teeth having an asymmetric ground, non-set tooth form that is asymmetric around a center line through a plane equally dividing a maximum width portion of the carbide tip, wherein each of the corners of at least one of the at least one pair of teeth having an asymmetric ground tooth form is chamfered, a first corner having a greater amount of chamfer than a second corner, and wherein the carbide tip of the asymmetric ground tooth form has a maximum width that is wider than a maximum width of the steel support member.