Patent ID: 7942615

Claim:
A railway wheel boring assembly, comprising: a railway wheel support table; a plurality of wheel alignment holders supported by the railway wheel support table; and a multi-cartridge cutting tool, comprising: a body including at least four cartridge-receiving pockets, each cartridge-receiving pocket including a pair of side walls, a bottom wall and a back wall; an insert-receiving cartridge adapted to be mounted to a respective cartridge-receiving pocket; and a plurality of cutting inserts, each cutting insert adapted to be mounted to a respective insert-receiving cartridge, each cutting insert having a cutting edge, wherein some inserts of the plurality of cutting inserts, defining a first group of inserts, are located relative to one another at a different axial and radial distances from a central, longitudinal axis of the body, and wherein at least one other insert of the plurality of cutting inserts is located at the same axial distance as one insert from the first group of cutting inserts.