Patent ID: 10160040

Abstract:
A cutting tool having a tool holder, cutting insert and clamping member. The tool holder includes an elongated supporting surface extending in a rearward-to-forward direction. The cutting insert has a central portion and three cutting portions, the central portion having two opposing side surfaces and three spaced apart locating surfaces defining a first imaginary triangle. The cutting insert is indexable about a central axis intersecting the two side surfaces. Each locating surface intersects two of three bisector planes containing the central axis and bisecting respective corners of the first imaginary triangle, and the cutting edge of each cutting portion is located entirely outside of the first imaginary triangle. In each index position the clamping member is located entirely rearward of a first vertical plane containing the central axis and perpendicular to the rearward-to-forward direction, and one of the locating surfaces is in clamping contact with the supporting surface.