Patent ID: 6926051

Claim:
A planing cutter comprising: a cylindrical cutter body having an outer surface formed with a plurality of recesses therein, said recesses delimited by a front wall, a rear wall and a bottom, each recess containing a cutting element with a cutting edge having two axial ends, a lower edge, two lateral edges, a front face and a rear side, said recess also containing a clamping device, each lateral edge of the cutting element having a range of grooves, and at least one groove in each range interacting with a peg projecting from one wall of the recess, and by the number of grooves in each range engaging a peg being less than the total number of grooves in the range the axial length of the cutting edge being smaller than the axial width of the cutter body, each lateral edge extending from the corresponding end of the cutting edge along a line perpendicular to the cutting edge.