Patent ID: 7708219

Claim:
A mineral breaker including a row of side-by-side breaker drum assemblies having radially projecting breaker teeth, the row including at least four breaker drum assemblies arranged to define an inner pair of adjacent breaker drum assemblies located in-between a pair of outer breaker drum assemblies, said inner pair of breaker drum assemblies defining therebetween a mineral deposit region for receiving mineral in-flow, the breaker drum assemblies of said inner pair of breaker drum assemblies being rotated in opposite directions outwardly such that, in use, breaker teeth on each of said inner breaker drum assemblies act upon mineral being deposited in said deposit region to cause agitation of the deposited mineral in-flow in order to encourage undersized mineral to pass therebetween whilst preventing oversized mineral passing therebetween, and each breaker drum assembly of said inner pair of breaker drum assemblies acting upon oversized mineral in the material in-flow to cause the oversized mineral to be moved outwardly towards a respective one of said outer breaker drum assemblies, and each breaker drum assembly of said inner pair of breaker drum assemblies forming with said respective one of said outer breaker drum assemblies a pair of breaker drum assemblies being rotated in opposite directions inwardly so as to direct material downwardly in-between the said breaker drum assemblies.