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Cone crushers are common rock crushing equipment used in mining, recycling, and the manufacturing of aggregates. In secondary, tertiary, and quaternary crushing phases, they are typically employed. Cone crushers can also perform the initial stage of the crushing process if the processed material's grain size is naturally small enough and the traditional primary crushing stage is not required.

Cone crushers are ideal for shaping and size reduction in the crushing circuit's after stage. By compressing and squeezing the feed material between a moving element (the mantle) and a stationary element (the bowl liner), a cone crusher limits the amount of material it can hold. The closed-side setting, also known as the distance between the two crushing members at their lowest position, is used to calculate final sizing and reduction.

The vertical cone crusher drive shaft turns the mantle as pre-crushed material fed into the cone crusher from the top flows through it. The material between the cone crusher's mantle and concave is squeezed and crushed by the eccentric movements the mantle makes beneath the concave, also known as the bowl liner. A cone crusher typically operates on V-belts powered by an electric motor or diesel engine. Cone crushers include a hydraulic setting adjustment mechanism that enables the crusher settings to be completely adjusted to match the material, feed size, and capacity requirements.

Numerous rocks and ores that are mid-hard or above mid-hard can be crushed using a cone crusher. It benefits from a solid build, high production, greater granularity and shape of finished items, ease of adjustment, and cheaper operating expenses. The quantity of material travelling through the cone, the machine's power consumption, the size distribution of the end products, and the form of the result are all indicators of how effectively a cone crusher is being used in a crushing circuit.

Compared to the initial cone crushers built in the middle of the 1920s, cone crushers today have higher performance capabilities. Today's cone crushers not only have more power capabilities but also larger sizes with higher capacities, better product shapes, and higher final product yield rates.

Computer controls have been added to cone crusher technological advancements in order to maximise and optimise the cone crusher's performance based on application needs. A cone crusher's power draw, cavity level, crushing force, lubricating oil flows, temperatures, pressures, and filter conditions can all be monitored in real time by modern solid-state devices. The data serves as inputs for computer controls, which can then adjust the feed rates and crusher settings to maximise the performance of the cone crusher as necessary.