Patent ID: 7559728

Claim:
A method for milling circular recesses into a workpiece, comprising: providing a milling tool, the milling tool including a base body and at least one cutting body having inside and outside surfaces with respect to the circular recess and situated on an outer periphery of the base body, the inside and outside surfaces of the at least one cutting body being angled away from the base body such that the at least one cutting body is angled away from a rotation axis of the milling tool, the base body being disk shaped or plate shaped, and wherein an inside radius of the inside surface of the at least one cutting body is greater than a radius of an inside surface of the circular recess; and milling recesses into a workpiece with the milling tool; wherein during milling, the rotation axis of the milling tool and a surface of the workpiece into which a circular recess is milled define a first acute angle, the surface of the workpiece into which the circular recess is milled being planar.