Breaking equipment

A breaking equipment comprising:

• a mounting bracket attached to an arm of a power shovel main body at the forward end thereof for vertically pivotable movement;
• a holder frame mounted to the mounting bracket for swivel movement;
• a hydraulic motor attached to the mounting bracket for rotatably and reversibly driving the holder frame;
• a pair of pivot arms of a symmetrically L-shaped configuration pivotably attached, at their respective substantially mid-points, to said holder frame by means of separate pivot axes for open-close pivotable movement, said pivot axes being spaced apart a predetermined distance H from one another so as to satisfy the equations;
• a=<b and H=<2h, wherein, a is a distance from the pivot point to the forward end of each of said pivot arms, b is a distance from the pivot point to the rearward end of each of said pivot arms, and h is a distance from the bald edge vertically to the line connecting the pivot point and the forward point of application, wherein the forward point of the application is the point at which a forward end attachment is connected to the pivot arm;
• two hydraulic cylinders connected between the rearward ends of said pivot arms and said holder frame;
• two hydraulic cylinders connect between the rearward ends of said pivot arms and said holder frame;
• a blade base for a long cutter and a blade base for a short cutter removably attached to each of said pivot arms in the opposite inner surfaces thereof at a point forwardly of said mid-point;
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• a coarse breaking attachment and a fine breaking attachment removably attached to each of said pivot arms in the forward, opposite inner surfaces thereof.

A breaking equipment comprising:

• a mounting bracket attached to an arm of a power shovel main body at the forward end thereof for vertically pivotable movement;
• a holder frame mounted to the mounting bracket for swivel movement;
• a swivel brake mechanism adapted to be mounted to the mounting bracket for restricting swivel movement of said holder frame;
• a pair of pivot arms of a symmetrically L-shaped configuration pivotably attached, at their respective substantially mid-points, to said holder frame by means of separate pivot axes for open-close pivotable movement, said pivot axes being spaced apart a predetermined distance H from one another so as to satisfy the equations;
• a=<b and H=<2h, wherein, a is a distance from the pivot point to the forward end of each of said pivot arms, b is a distance from the pivot point to the rearward end of each of said pivot arms, and h is a distance from the bald edge vertically to the line connecting the pivot point and the forward point of application, wherein the forward point of the application is the point at which a forward end attachment is connected to the pivot arm;
• a hydraulic cylinder connected between said pair of pivot arms at the rearward ends thereof for opening/closing said pivot arms;
• a blade base for a long cutter and a blade base for a short cutter removably attached to each of said pivot arms in the opposite inner surfaces thereof at a point forwardly of said mid-point;
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• a coarse breaking attachment and a fine breaking attachment removably attached to each of said pivot arms in the forward, opposite inner surfaces thereof.

A breaking equipment comprising:

• a mounting bracket attached to an arm of a power shovel main body at the forward end thereof for vertically pivotable movement;
• a holder frame mounted to the mounting bracket for swivel movement;
• a swivel brake mechanism adapted to be mounted to the mounting bracket for restricting swivel movement of said holder frame;
• a pair of pivot arms of a symmetrically L-shaped configuration pivotably attached, at their respective substantially mid-points, to said holder frame by means of separate pivot axes for open-close pivotable movement, said pivot axes being spaced apart a predetermined distance H from one another so as to satisfy the equations;
• a=<b and H=<2h, wherein, a is a distance from the pivot point to the forward end of each of said pivot arms, b is a distance from the pivot point to the rearward end of each of said pivot arms, and h is a distance from the bald edge vertically to the line connecting the pivot point and the forward point of application, wherein the forward point of the application is the point at which a forward end attachment is connected to the pivot arm;
• two hydraulic cylinders connected between the rearward ends of said pivot arms and said holder frame;
• a blade base for a long cutter and a blade base for a short cutter removably attached to each of said pivot arms in the opposite inner surfaces thereof at a point forwardly of said mid-point;
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• a coarse breaking attachment and a fine breaking attachment removably attached to each of said pivot arms in the forward, opposite inner surfaces thereof.