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US 10,766,036 B2Granted
Multi-drive crusher
AssigneeSandvik Intellectual Property AB
InventorsPhil Nicholson, Martin Wheatley
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Abstract
A crusher unit includes a mainframe that supports a crusher suitable for crushing bulk material. The unit has a primary motor carried by the frame to drive a crusher via a first drive belt extending around a first drive pulley and a first flywheel mounted at the crusher. The unit further includes a secondary motor carried by the frame to provide a secondary drive to the crusher via a second drive belt extending around a first or a second flywheel mounted at the crusher and a second drive pulley.
Claims14
A crusher unit comprising:
- a mainframe;
- a crusher supported by the mainframe;
- a primary motor carried by the mainframe to drive the crusher via a first drive belt extending around a first drive pulley at the primary motor and a first flywheel mounted at the crusher;
- a secondary motor carried by the mainframe to provide a secondary drive of the crusher;
- and
- a second drive belt extending around a second drive pulley at the secondary motor and either the first flywheel or a second flywheel mounted at the crusher, wherein the secondary motor is movably mounted via a pivot arm to adjust a tension of the second drive belt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.