Scroll type machine with improved wrap radially outer tip

A scroll compressor 10 having a fixed scroll 18, an orbital scroll 70 and a drive 90 and 94 for moving the orbital scroll in a generally circular orbit. The scrolls 18 and 70 have end plates 24 and 72, with flat surfaces 26 and 76 and involute wraps 28 and 74. The wraps have inside flank surfaces 30 and 77, outside flank surfaces 32 and 78 and axial tips 34 and 80. A portion 164 of the axial tip 34 of the fixed scroll 18 adjacent the outside flank surface 32 is recessed from an adjacent portion of the axial tip that is adjacent to the inside flank surface 30. A portion 170 of the axial tip 80 of the orbital scroll 70 adjacent outside flank surface 78 has a surface in a plane that is recessed from an adjacent portion of the axial tip that is adjacent to the inside flank surface 77.