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.
Claims16
A machine for crushing and feeding large blocks of hot material through a quench tank that contains a quantity of liquid;
- said machine comprising:
- a continuous loop drag chain conveyor adapted to carry the large blocks of material thereon;
- a support frame for said conveyor, said frame being configured to guide an upper section of the conveyor through an interior chamber of the quench tank and to guide a lower section of the conveyor beneath a bottom wall of the quench tank;
- a rotary crusher mounted on the frame and adapted to engage the large blocks of material carried on the conveyor;
- an opening defined in the frame in a position that permits materials crushed by the rotary crusher and carried on said upper section of the conveyor to drop through said opening and onto the lower section of the conveyor;
- and
- a discharge opening defined in the frame beneath the bottom wall of the quench tank, said discharge opening being adapted to permit crushed materials carried on the lower section of the conveyor to drop through the discharge opening.
In combination:
- a quenching tank having a first wall, a second wall, a pair of spaced apart side walls and a bottom wall what define an interior chamber that is adapted to retain a quantity of liquid therein;
- a continuous loop drag chain conveyor adapted to carry large blocks of heated material thereon;
- a support frame for said conveyor, said frame being configured to guide an upper section of the conveyor through the interior chamber of the quench tank and to guide a lower section of the conveyor beneath the bottom wall thereof;
- rotary crusher mounted on one of the frame and the tank, said rotary crusher being adapted to engage the large blocks of material carried on the conveyor;
- an opening defined in the frame in a position that permits materials crushed by the rotary crusher and carried on said upper section of the conveyor to drop through said opening and onto the lower section of the conveyor;
- and
- a discharge opening defined in the frame beneath the bottom wall of the quench tank, said discharge opening being adapted to permit crushed materials carried on the lower section of the conveyor to drop through the discharge opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.