Single motion mobile fluorescent lamp crusher, cleaner and material classifier

A mobile fluorescent lamp digester system where lamps are crushed, cleaned of any powder residue and where material components used to construct the lamps are classified into three distinct groupings during processing:

• clean glass, mercury rich phosphor powder and metal end-caps;
• where specified operations are performed at an angle to the horizon on a single rotating axis comprising:
• (a) a rotating crusher fan mounted on one side of a plate where the single rotating axis is joined to the center of the plate and where a plurality of crusher fan blades equally spaced are arranged and constructed at angle of pitch where a leading edge impacts incoming lamps and where trailing edge forces fractured material through the crusher fan continuously recirculating fractured material up and around through friction media thereby enhancing cleaning of fractured material due to an increase in turbulance and friction caused specifically by recirculation;
• (b) a rotating tumbler screen drum member affixed to an outside edge of the plate parallel to the axis extending over the crusher fan where the crusher fan is mounted inside the screen drum where the screen drum is perforated with small openings near the crusher fan having progressively larger opennings toward a mouth of the screen drum mouth where fractured material enters at one end and sifts out, through perforated openings via rotating action and gravitational forces, into distinct classifications;
• (c) said friction media located inside the screen dram where the drum angle is such that friction media remains at the dram bottom surrounding the crusher fan;
• where the friction media is comprised of varying type, size and mass density of particles for purposes of cleaning fractured material via frictional forces during rotation of the drum.