Patent ID: 7182284

Claim:
A crushing device designed as a mobile or semi-mobile unit for use in open cast mining and in the recycling industry, the device comprising: a feeding container; a crusher unit; a feeding conveyor means connected downstream of said feeding container for said crusher unit; a discharge conveyor means serving to transport the crushed product from said crusher unit; and a support structure, on which said feeding container, said feeding conveyor means, said crusher unit and said discharge conveyor means are held, said discharge conveyor means comprising a single discharge conveyor unit, which is used for both a drawing off of material and a discharge process and which is constructed to slew as a sub-assembly in the horizontal and vertical direction relative to the support structure wherein on a side remote from the feeding container, viewed in the direction of the longitudinal extension of the support structure, said support structure has a component in the shape of a “U” with horizontal legs and an opening between the legs directed away from the feeding container and the crusher unit is disposed on the upper leg and the discharge conveyor unit is held to slew below the crusher unit in the region of the opening between the legs and is either suspended on the top leg or supported on the bottom leg to allow slewing movement around a horizontal movement axis and around a vertical movement axis.