Greater reliability, efficiency and agglomerate size reduction performance than any other lump breaker available.
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Lump breakers, also referred to as lump crushers or flake breakers, are required particle size reduction equipment for most material handling systems. They operate by introducing agglomerated product through an opening in the top of the unit. The lump breaking happens when the product’s particles that are too large are crushed by the rotating blades as they pass through a set of stationary comb-like blades. The agglomerated product particles continue to be reduced in size until they are small enough to pass through and discharge below the unit.
A common application for our lump breakers is to reduce deliberately compacted materials or natural agglomerations which often occurs during production, storage or shipping.
Prater Single-Shaft Lump Breakers (also called Flake Breakers and vice versa) provide a simple, durable, and economical means of conditioning materials that have become compacted or lumpy due to storage, transport, or blending. Simultaneous application of gentle impact and shear results in free-flowing materials with uniform size distribution. Many industries require size uniformity when blending, conveying, and packaging their finished products. Prater Lump Breakers provide cost savings, streamlined operating efficiency, and enhanced product quality.
Prater Dual-Shaft Flake Breakers provide the same benefit as Prater Single-Shaft Lump Breakers yet with a lower profile. Equipped with counter-rotating blades, these flake breakers are ideal for conditioning or granulating materials purposely compacted in densification equipment, recycling, or disposal operations.
These precision tools are helpful with a variety of products, including:
Important features of Prater Lump Breakers and Flake Breakers include:
Material is gravity-fed into the top of the unit where rotor blades impact the lumpy or compacted material. Blades intermesh with each other or with stationary blades to ensure sufficient material contact. For harder lumps, an optional screen can be used to extend retention time. Fully de-lumped material exits by gravity discharge through the optional screen. Screens with different openings are easily interchanged to accommodate a variety of material types and to allow for specific output characteristics. Large operating clearances and low operating speed minimizes shear and impact that eliminates dust generation and size reduction of particles.
The accompanying schematic illustrates how Prater Lump Breakers and Flake Breakers can be integrated into your total operating system:
