US Patent Issued to AB Sandvik Coromant on Dec. 30 for "Tool holder and a parting and grooving tool for an indexable turret, and a machining method therefor" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,657, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AB Sandvik Coromant (Sandviken, Sweden).

"Tool holder and a parting and grooving tool for an indexable turret, and a machining method therefor" was invented by Michael Valiquette (Sandviken, Sweden) and Per-Olof Jansson (Sandviken, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool holder and a parting and grooving tool for an indexable turret have a plurality of tool stations, The adjacent tool stations have a predetermined angular spacing. The tool holder includes a mounting portion and a projected portion, which are connected. The mounting portion has a flat surface extending in an interface plane...