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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 2 Overview of cutting tooth geometries of series 1 where the clearance, band thickness and major cutting edge change

From: Minor cutting edge force contribution in wood bandsawing

Feature

Symbol

Unit

Tooth no.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Major cutting edge

\(S_\text {t}\)

mm

2.87

2.47

2.07

2.60

2.20

1.80

2.40

2.00

1.60

Band thickness

S

mm

1.47

1.47

1.47

1.20

1.20

1.20

1.0

1.0

1.0

Clearance

u

mm

0.7

0.5

0.3

0.7

0.5

0.3

0.7

0.5

0.3

Minor cutting edge

\(S_\text {t}'\)

mm

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

Rake angle

\(\gamma\)

deg

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

27

Clearance angle

\(\alpha\)

deg

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

12

Minor cutting edge angle

\(\kappa '_\text {r}\)

deg

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

Minor cutting edge clearance angle

\(\alpha '_\text {p}\)

deg

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

  1. Bold-italic values indicate changed parameter values