MACH 2010 - Horn debuts reaming, grooving and milling developments
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Horn Cutting Tools is debuting its tool system developments for reaming, grooving and high feed milling at MACH 2010. In addition to exhibiting on its own 120 m² stand, no 5530, the company is providing tooling for live demonstrations on the DMG and Mori Seiki stands.
Among the tooling on show are the Horn System DR range of high productivity high precision insert-based modular reamers, developed for rapid sizing of blind and through hole diameters from 11.9 to 100.6 mm.
A series of sintered inserts for the Mini grooving system, with application-specific chip breaker geometries, is claimed to provide a significant advance in cutting performance, compared with conventional plain ground inserts.
The milling cutters of the Horn DAH system have been specially developed to meet the requirements in tool making and mould making for roughing with high feed rates and low cutting depths.
High feed milling strategies generally allow suitable tooling to absorb very high loads when using tooth feeds of 1 mm per tooth, comparing favourably with the relatively low cutting depths of 0.5 mm to 0.8 mm for conventional tools. Horn DAH milling cutters have special cutting geometry, which combines 'soft' cutting with fast plunging, enabling cutting depths up to 1.2 mm and providing a clear advantage over many competing tools.
With cutting edge diameters of 20 mm, 25 mm, 32 mm and 40 mm, the DAH milling system expands Horn's range for tool making and mould making in the direction of larger diameters and higher feed rates.
