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When the non-choking feature was being applied to existing crushers of the gyratory type, it was found that in several machines, the attendant reduction in receiving opening could be partially offset by sloping the straight portion of the concaves at a wider angle than that for which the top shell was originally designed, because some of these older machines were designed with very conservative crushing angles. Generally speaking, however, this was not true of existing lines of jaw crushers. It is true that prevailing angles could be widened in certain cases, and for certain applicationsˇ but the jaw crusher, more than any other type of crusher, is called upon to handle very hard, tough materials, and standard designs must be based on that kind of duty. Furthermore, as was pointed out in our discussion of gyratory crushers, a certain amount of slippage" occurs in all crushing chambers, and the jaw crusher, which is not essentially a high-capacity machine, could ill afford to have any additional slippage built into it.
A study of these factors convinced designers that, to fully realize the advantages of the non-choking feature in the Blake-type crusher, it would be necessary to develop a new line, with crushing chambers designed specifically for that type of plate. It was realized, that improved performance -particularly on hard rock-would result from a substantial decrease in the prevailing practice with regard to crushing angles. And, thirdly, inasmuch as the jaw crusher is preponderantly a primary breaker, it was desirable that these improvements be incorporated without sacrificing valuable inches of receiving opening.
These ideas were given concrete form in a new line of all-steel Blake type jaw crushers, with frames of welded design, and several interesting and important refinements in mechanical details, including an improved system of lubrication.
Fig. 4 shows a diagram of the crushing chamber in one of the new type crushers. This diagram covers a machine of the same receiving-open. ing size as the standard type on which the two preceding diagrams were based. A brief comparison will indicate why the new crusher has distinctive performance characteristics.
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