Method of using a materials crusher and bottom dump feeder
AssigneeImperial Technologies, Inc.
InventorRichard W. Tschantz
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Abstract
A machine for quenching, crushing and feeding material that includes a continuous loop drag chain conveyor. A first portion of the conveyor travels through a quenching tank and a second portion travels beneath the tank's bottom wall. Large blocks of hot material are dropped onto the conveyor inside the tank. A rotary crusher is positioned to crush the cooled blocks into sized pieces as they exit the tank. The sized pieces drop through an opening in the conveyor's frame and onto the second portion of the conveyor. The pieces dewater on the second portion of the conveyor and drop through a discharge opening and into a removal device for transfer to a remote location for further processing.
Claims20
A method of reducing the size of heated large blocks of material comprising:
- activating a continuous loop drag chain conveyor so that a first portion thereof moves through water contained in a quench tank;
- depositing the hot large blocks of material onto the first portion of the conveyor;
- advancing the conveyor through the quench tank;
- activating a rotary crusher disposed adjacent a portion of the conveyor;
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- rotating the rotary crusher so as to break up the large blocks of material carried on the conveyor into smaller sized pieces of material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.