Patent ID: 7625156

Claim:
Milling tool comprising a milling body rotatable around a geometrical axis, said body having an envelope surface extending rearward from a front end, in which body a plurality of tangentially spaced flutes are formed, which separately includes a plurality of axially spaced-apart insert pockets for releasably mounted cutting inserts, the active edges of the cutting inserts of the same flute partially overlapping each other in imaginary, radially extending overlapping planes, wherein a first insert pocket located closest to the front end, together with the appurtenant cutting insert in a first flute, has another length than the other insert pockets and the cutting inserts, respectively, in the same flute in order to axially displace said overlapping planes in relation to the overlapping planes between the cutting inserts in a row of cutting inserts in a second, nearby flute, wherein the body includes an even number of flutes and insert rows, respectively, wherein the front cutting insert in every second flute has another length than the other cutting inserts in the same flute.