Crushing machines

• Main Authors: Nevin, Jonathan, Devlin, Anthony, Robinson, Karl
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.11.2018
• Subjects: CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MILLING GRAIN; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TRANSPORTING

A crushing machine that includes a crusher, a feed conveyor for feeding material to the crusher, a detector for detecting metal in the material on the feed conveyor, and a bypass chute for the crusher. The feed conveyor being movable between a normal operating position in which the material is fed to the crusher and a bypass position in which the material is fed to the bypass chute. Upon detection of metal in the material, the feed conveyor is stopped and moved from the normal operating position to the bypass position so that the material with the metal is discharged into the bypass chute.