A system and method for controlling the operation of a gyratory rock crusher is shown and described. The gyratory rock crusher includes a variable frequency drive that allows the eccentric speed of the gyratory crusher to be modified based upon sensed parameters of the rock crushing system. The speed of the eccentric rotation can be dynamically adjusted to compensate for the size of the material particles being crushed and the availability of the material. The use of the variable frequency drive increases the operating efficiency of the gyratory crusher by controlling the discharge flow rate of the crushed material from the crusher and thus allows for a reduction in the size of the discharge hopper. The rotational speed of the eccentric is controlled to be below the critical speed for the gyratory crusher.

A crusher is disclosed having a rotatable eccentric, a main shaft supported to the eccentric, a piston for adjusting the vertical position of the main shaft and an axial thrust bearing between the lower end of the main shaft and the piston. The thrust bearing has an upper bearing attached to the lower end of the main shaft, a lower bearing attached to the piston, and a pressure plate between the upper bearing and the lower bearing. A circular groove or expansion is formed onto the pressure plate. A releasing member is attached to a crusher structure outside of the pressure plate. The releasing member has a circular lip directed to the direction of the pressure plate. Part of the lip is in the groove or above the part of the extension. The releasing member is attached to the piston.

A crusher may include a crushing member that is driven in an operatively connected manner by way of an eccentric element such that material to be crushed can be comminuted by way of a crushing movement generated at least in part by the eccentric element. At least one eccentric bushing may be connected by way of an active surface to the eccentric element by way of frictional engagement. The eccentric bushing may have a pressure medium chamber that uses pressure to vary the frictional engagement between the eccentric element and the eccentric bushing. In some examples, the crusher may be of a jaw type or a cone type.

Inertia cone crusher for crushing materials includes a body with an outer cone and an inner cone arranged inside, on whose drive shaft an unbalance weight is provided with the aid of a slide bushing and connected via a transmission disk coupling to a combined moving dynamic assembly comprising a counterbalance weight and a counterbalance weight slide bushing, the assembly connected to a gear transmission and a motor, and has an improved plain journal bearing. The plain bearing is installed between the flange and the counterbalance weight, bearing the load from the crusher's moving part, and includes a base ring and an upper ring, the base ring having a spherical bottom surface and its mating recess on the flange's top surface. The bearing enables the moving dynamic assembly's rotation around the axis, using a hydrodynamic sliding mode, with radial oil slots additionally provided on top surface of the base ring.

An apparatus (2) and a method for attaching a cone-shaped crushing mantle (4) of a cone crusher (100) to a carrier cone (6) of the cone crusher (100) and for detaching the crushing mantle (4) from the carrier cone (6) are provided. The apparatus (2) comprises a hydraulically actuated pre-tensioning actuator (24) adapted for pressing the crushing mantle (4) against the carrier cone (6) in a pre-tensioning process in the axial direction prior to tightening attachment screws (18) in the head region (20) of the carrier cone (6). The hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) comprises a pressure chamber (26) for receiving a pressurized hydraulic medium and a piston (28) limiting the pressure chamber (26). The hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) is applied externally to a pressure plate (10) during the pre-tensioning process, such that a piston rod (36) of the piston (28) or a rod-shaped element attached thereto extends through the central opening (14) of the pressure plate (10) and is attached to the head region (20) of the carrier cone (6), wherein the pressure chamber (26) and the piston (28) of the hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) are located on a side of the pressure plate (10) opposite to the carrier cone (6). The hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) may be released and removed from the pressure plate (10) outside the pre-tensioning process.

A coupling assembly adapted for use on an item of equipment having a first component and a second component and including an eccentric axis plate having a first surface that is operatively connected to the first component and a second surface having a drive tang extending therefrom, a slider plate having a first surface that is in operational contact with the drive tang and having a first groove therein and a second surface having a second groove therein, and an adapter plate having a first surface that is in operational contact with the slider plate second surface and having an adapter plate tang extending therefrom and a second surface that is operatively connected to the second component. The longitudinal axis of the first component and the longitudinal axis of the second component are non-parallel, and the assembly is adapted to couple the first component and the second component.

A gyratory crusher includes an eccentric having an inner slide bearing surface and an outer slide bearing surface, the inner slide bearing surface defining, together with an opposing slide bearing surface, an inner slide bearing. The outer slide bearing surface defines, together with another opposing slide bearing surface, an outer slide bearing. The eccentric is rotatably connected to a crusher frame so as to allow a rotation about an eccentric axis of rotation, which is fixed relative to the frame. The eccentric axis of rotation is defined by one of the inner and outer slide bearings. The inner slide bearing has a total height-to-diameter quotient (H1/D1) of less than 1.0.

A gyratory crusher hydraulic pressure relief valve includes a hydraulic fluid vestibule arranged to be fluidly connected to a hydraulic fluid space. A logic element is arranged to dump hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid space, which includes a plunger having a first plunger surface and a second plunger surface, and a control pipe arranged for fluidly connecting the second plunger surface to the hydraulic fluid vestibule. A supply orifice restricts the flow of hydraulic fluid from the vestibule towards the second plunger surface to make the time TC it takes for the logic element to switch from open position to closed position exceed the time TF it takes for a closed side setting position of the crusher to make one full round.

A grinding apparatus includes a receptacle, a grinding element and a drive means. The receptacle has a receptacle inner wall defining a receptacle cavity. The receptacle inner wall is in the general form of a surface of a revolution extending about a central vertically extending receptacle axis. The receptacle is rotatable about the receptacle axis. The grinding element has a grinding element outer wall in the general form of a surface of revolution extending about a central vertically extending grinding element axis.

A gyratory crusher shell has an annular wall extending around a longitudinal axis. A plurality of ears project radially outward from an annular rim of the topshell with each ear including a respective lug to sit within a corresponding recess at an annular rim of the topshell to rotatably lock the crushing shell at the topshell.