Cutting Insert and Milling Cutter Provided with the Same

摘要

A milling cutter is provided with a cutting insert having improved main cutting edges. The main cutting edges are positioned along both lengthwise edges of a front surface, have a wave shape and are asymmetrical with each other. Main cutting edges positioned along both lengthwise edges of a back surface are rotationally symmetrical by 180 degrees from the main cutting edges of the front surface with respect to a longitudinal central axis of the cutting insert. In the milling cutter, the cutting inserts are alternately mounted in pockets formed on a side surface of the milling cutter so that the concavo-convex portions of the active main cutting edges of the cutting inserts which are adjacent to each other are staggered with respect to each other.