Patent ID: 7861959

Claim:
A crushing machine for comminuting laminated glass, and windshields for vehicles, including a closed crushing chamber where the wall of the chamber is provided with a feeding slot for glass and a discharge opening for crushed glass and comminuted plastic film, where the crushing chamber contains a rotary shaft extending through the crushing chamber and driven by a motor outside the crushing chamber, where the shaft is provided with pivotable beaters or hammers which are spaced along the shaft inside the crushing chamber, where the crushing chamber is provided with a controlled air leakage in the way that the discharge opening constitutes the only significant air passage in the crushing chamber, where the discharge opening is connected to a lock intended for collecting comminuted material, where a subpressure can be applied to the lock, and where the discharge opening is disposed spaced apart from the bottom of the crushing chamber, wherein the feeding slot is provided with a flexible lock mouth that may fit almost airtight around and adapt to varying thicknesses of incoming glass, and that the discharge opening is slot-formed with variable slot width, as the discharge opening is formed between a fixed part and a pivotable part of the wall of the crushing chamber.