Glass breaker for breaking glass containers

A glass breaker for the crushing of glass containers, the glass breaker comprising:

• a housing having a receiving section for receiving the glass containers, a glass cullet output section for providing glass cullet, and a sloped guiding plane between the receiving section and the glass cullet output section for guiding received glass containers into a breaking area inside the housing by the force of gravity;
• a breaking unit being positioned at a distance from the sloped guiding plane in the breaking area, such that glass cullet produced by the braking unit can move towards the glass cullet output section, wherein the braking unit has a rotatable shaft and crushing blocks mounted adjacent to each other on the shaft;
• and
• a drive unit for driving the shaft of the breaking unit,
• wherein the crushing blocks are eccentrically mounted on the shaft of the breaking unit via a mounting section such that a crushing section of the respective crushing block protrudes radially from the shaft to a greater extent than the mounting section of the respective crushing block resulting in an excentric rotational motion of the respective crushing block when driving the shaft via the drive unit, and that the eccentrically mounted crushing blocks are arranged on the shaft in an alternating and/or periodic manner such that, at least in subsections of the breaking unit, the crushing sections of adjacent crushing blocks are radially protruding into different directions from the shaft.