Rotary slot cutting tools

Claim 1

A cutting insert for inserting into a tool holder of a cutting tool arrangement and comprising a body having a top face, a pair of opposite side faces, a front end face, a straight line cutting edge formed at the join of said top face and said front end face; a land surface formed in said top face substantially coextensive with, parallel to and extending from said cutting edge; a chip shaping rib formed in said top face, separated from said cutting edge by said land surface and extending substantially centrally between, said opposite side faces from said land surface and away from said cutting edge, and a chip deflecting surface formed in said top surface and extending beyond said chip shaping rib towards an edge of said top surface remote from said cutting edge, the arrangement being such that during cutting operations a chip cut by said cutting edge is shaped by said chip shaping means so as to have imparted to it, by said rib, a substantially central ridge thereby resulting in the overall narrowing of the chip which is thereafter deflected by said deflecting surface.