Summary: As we all know, cone crusher plays a key role in crushing stone material with certain hardness like metal ore, marble and limestone....

As we all know, cone crusher plays a key role in crushing stone material with certain hardness like metal ore, marble and limestone. It is usually used in mine ore processing for two-stage or three-stage crushing, and used for crushing medium hard stone (like river pebble, granite, basalt, limestone, quartzite and diabase) because it's strong crushing capacity. As an important machine to process hard materials, what types of cone crushers do you know? Which cone crusher is better to use? Today we'll analyze it in detail.

There are 3 major cone crushers in the market: Spring cone crusher, single-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher and multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher. Spring cone crusher is a traditional type, which was launched in the early years. While the hydraulic cone crusher has a larger capacity and is more advanced than the spring cone crusher. Therefore, it’s widely used in aggregates industry.

Spring Cone Crusher

The spring cone crusher adopts spring safety system as overload protection device. It allows foreign matter to pass through the crushing chamber without damaging the machine, ensuring more stable operation of the crusher. It is mainly used in some crushing production processes that do not have too high requirements for particle shape.

spring cone crusher

Hydraulic Cone Crusher

Compared to the spring cone crusher, the hydraulic cone crusher is simpler in structure and more efficient. It’s not only easy to maintain with hydraulic adjustment and overload protection performance, but easy to control. All these features make it suitable for plants with high standards and a high degree of automation.

Hydraulic cone crusher can be divided into single-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher and multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher. When crushing soft stone materials like limestone, it is suitable for users to use single cylinder hydraulic cone crusher. But when crushing hard stone materials like pebbles, it's better to use multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher.

single-cylinder cone crusher vs multi-cylinder

Generally, the higher the rock hardness is, the greater the difference between single-cylinder and multi-cylinder operations.

But single-cylinder cone crusher is simpler than multi-cylinder in structure. Because of its simple structure, it costs less to manufacture, so the price of the single-cylinder crusher is lower than that of the multi-cylinder one.

As a high performance crushing equipment, cone crusher has been developed for a long time. As the characteristic of big crushing efficiency, low energy consumption and high quality in finished products, cone crusher is widely used in mining and quarry. Now, it has gradually become an indispensable part in the modern crushing field. So it's important for users to know cone crusher deeply.