Mobile rock crushing plant

• US 7,464,889 B2
• Filed: 11/27/2006
• Issued: 12/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Astec Industries Incorporated (Johnson Crushers International)
• Original Assignee: Johnson Crushers International
• Inventors: Carnes, Robert, Brock, James Donald, Heeszel, Gary, Olsen, Lawrence, Westerman, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum; Mark
• Application Number:
  US11/563,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20070158479A1
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 241 33- 37, 241/30, 241/101.76
• US Class Current: 241/101.76
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 21/02 Transportable disintegrating plant
• CPC Class Codes: B02C 25/00 Control arrangements specially adapted for crushing or disintegrating
• CPC Class Codes: B07B 1/005 Transportable screening plants

Abstract

A method and apparatus for wirelessly monitoring and/or controlling the processing operations of a mobile rock crushing plant.

Claims

1. A mobile aggregate processing plant comprising:

multiple processing units cooperatively arranged to crush and size sort aggregate material, the multiple processing units being coupled together by conveyors adapted to help move aggregate material from one processing unit to another, wherein each of the multiple processing units are adapted to be efficiently decoupled from each other, transported over public roadways and recoupled at a second site, and wherein the multiple processing units are each mounted on a movable base, and include a releasable stabilizing mechanism for selectively stabilizing the processing units and controllably rendering them immobile and mobile as desired; and

a mobile control unit wirelessly coupled to and in communication with one or more of the multiple processing units, the control unit adapted to monitor and/or control the multiple processing units.

2. The mobile aggregate processing plant of claim 1, wherein one or more of the multiple mobile processing units include one or more sub-components which have operating parameters to be monitored and/or controlled by the control unit.

3. The mobile aggregate processing plant of claim 1, wherein the multiple processing units include a primary crushing unit a screen unit and a secondary crushing unit cooperatively arranged to crush and size sort aggregate material.

4. The mobile aggregate processing plant of claim 1, wherein the mobile control unit includes wireless transmission components, wherein the wireless transmission components are configured to transmits data to a remote location via a satellite and/or a terrestrial based wireless communication network.