Glossary of Quarry Equipment

Quarry Equipment comes in all shapes and sizes and can be made up of many different kinds of equipment. For a comprehensive quarry equipment guide why not have a look at part one of our glossary below?

Aggregate - The collective term for sand, gravel and stone, which can be used to make concrete amongst other things. They can be compacted to firmly fill a space and are often bound together with cement, to make concrete or bitumen, to re-surface roads.

Backactor - A hydraulic excavator with the bucket facing backwards which sits atop of the material it is excavating.

Cone crusher - A piece of quarry equipment, a cone crusher breaks material by squeezing it between cones. Cone and gyratory crushers break up the ore by means of a rotating cone. Cone crushers are comprised of a vertical conical chamber with a feed opening at the top and a vertical conical crushing head inside. They are normally a secondary or tertiary crusher.

Conveyer belt – the device which carries large quantities of material from one place to another within the quarry.

Crusher – A piece of quarry equipment in which the large rocks go in order to crush them into smaller aggregate of different sizes. There are many types of crushers. Gyratory crushers and cone crushers are most common.

Crushing plants - are static or mobile quarry equipment containing a range of equipment, such as a pre-screener, loading conveyor, intake hopper, magnetic separator, crushing unit, such as jaw crushers and cone crusher etc.

Double impeller impact breaker - Operates much in the same method as a single impeller, with counter-rotating impellers which not only impel the material against the breaker bars, but also impel material high inside the chamber to be fractured on other incoming feed.

Double roll crusher - A crusher that breaks rocks by compressing them between two revolving metal cylinders, with axes parallel to each other and separated by a space equal to the desired size of the finished product.

If you are looking for quarry equipment then please do not hesitate to get in contact with N.H. Greaves & Co Ltd on 01709 582381 and we will do our very best to help.

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