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Quarrying and Rockbreaking
The Operation and Maintenance of Mobile Plants
Various types of plants and their operation are described. Recommended maintenance schedules and lists of spare parts are included.For the owner or manager of a small mobile rock crushing plant this book is essential reading
Published: 1981
Pages: 124
eBook: 9781780445687
Various types of plants and their operation are described. Recommended maintenance schedules and lists of spare parts are included.For the owner or manager of a small mobile rock crushing plant this book is essential reading
| Acknowledgements Hi | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Preface 3 | |||
| Details of your plant 5 | |||
| INTRODUCTION 6 | |||
| Quality requirements of aggregates | |||
| The origins of aggregate rocks | |||
| The sources of aggregate rocks | |||
| Processing rock into acceptable aggregates | |||
| Locating and evaluating a workable quarry site | |||
| Territorial regulations | |||
| MECHANICAL ROCKCRUSHINGON ASMALLSCALE 12 | |||
| PART ONE: QUARRYING AND PROCESSING 16 | |||
| THE QUARRY AREA AND ROCK FACE | |||
| Security | |||
| Explosives | |||
| Procedural rules for explosives | |||
| Developing the rock face | |||
| Drilling | |||
| Selection of the production drilling equipment | |||
| Primary drilling | |||
| Secondary drilling and blasting | |||
| Quarry face planning | |||
| Transport between the face and the crusher | |||
| The plant area | |||
| THE PROCESSING PLANT AND PROCESS MACHINES 29 | |||
| Feeders | |||
| Primary jaw crushers | |||
| Secondary and tertiary crushers | |||
| Screens | |||
| Conveyors | |||
| Drives | |||
| Metal detectors | |||
| EQUIPPINGTHE WORKSHOP 44 | |||
| Cutting and burning | |||
| Welding | |||
| Portable lifting equipment | |||
| Plant erection tools | |||
| General tools | |||
| SAFETY INQUARRIES 47 | |||
| PART TWO: GENERAL MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION 49 | |||
| Preparing the plant for duty | |||
| Moving a plant on the highway | |||
| Road running gear (illustrations) | |||
| DRIVES AND TRANSMISSIONS 55 | |||
| Vee belt drives | |||
| Chain drives | |||
| Diesel engines | |||
| Electric motors | |||
| Tracing faults in an electrical control panel | |||
| THE MAIN PROCESSING MACHINES 61 | |||
| Routine operation and maintenance of: | |||
| Vibrating grizzly feeders and apron feeders | |||
| Electric vibrating feeders | |||
| Reciprocating plate feeders | |||
| Jaw crushers | |||
| Cone crushers | |||
| Vibrating screens | |||
| Screen deck media, tensioning and fitting | |||
| MANGANESE STEEL WEARING PARTS 83 | |||
| Work hardening | |||
| Dimensional requirements | |||
| Jaw crusher tooth profiles | |||
| THE DUST HAZARD 88 | |||
| PORTABLE CONVEYORS 95 | |||
| Chain drives (transmission) | |||
| Electric motors | |||
| Bearings | |||
| Belt joining | |||
| Belt tracking | |||
| Belt scrapers | |||
| Tension gear | |||
| Anti-runback gear | |||
| Wheels | |||
| Feed boot | |||
| Chutes | |||
| Guards | |||
| Troughing and parallel rollers | |||
| APPENDIX: MISCELLANEOUS TABLES AND INFORMATION 105 |
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