Abstract: A housing, composed of large-area plates, of a heavy crusher for the treatment of rock or recycling material is held together with simple lug and cotter connections instead of by welding or screw unions. This allows transportation in the knocked-down state, erection by unskilled workers on the site and use and - for later relation - simple disassembly.

Abstract: A jaw crusher is equipped for the first time with a horizonal crushing chamber and, for replacement of gravity for the conveyance of the material being crushed through the crushing chamber, with an abutment comprising a chain conveyor. The mechanism for applying the crushing force on the jaw rocker (10) is selected so that the action is equivalent to that of a double bell-crank jaw crusher even for hardest material and in particular for recycling material such as reinforced concrete.

Abstract: To wash and dewater solid-water mixtures in the preparation of construction materials, particularly in recycling processes (processes using recycled waste materials), a sturdy washing trough structure is formed of a sheet steel washing trough to which a vibration box (also solid) is connected on the solids discharge side in order to achieve improved dewatering, and to provide at least one "washing pulsator" and at least one "conveying pulsator", in the form of hydraulic or pneumatic organs, which engage the washing box itself. In addition, with the aid of a hydraulic or pneumatic thrust organ, the entire assembly can be swung up around a swing pivot, said swinging up being toward the solids discharge location; and/or said assembly can be swung up toward the washing water overflow.