CUTTING TOOL WITH ERROR PROOFING FEATURE

摘要

A cutting tool 10 includes a body 12 having a forward end 14 and a rearward end 16. The forward end 14 includes an insert-receiving pocket 20a, 20b with a threaded hole 34 having a center axis 70. The cutting tool 10 further includes a cutting insert 40 with a countersunk bore 62 with a center axis 64. The cutting tool 10 includes an error proofing feature for preventing the cutting insert 40 to be properly mounted in an insert-receiving pocket 20a, 20b when an offset distance 76 between the center axis 70 of the threaded hole of the insert-receiving pocket 20a, 20b and the center axis 64 of the countersunk bore 62 of the cutting insert 40 is greater than a predetermined percentage of the outer diameter of the threaded screw 36.