Method and apparatus for crushing waste tires

摘要

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for crushing and pulverizing tire chips roughly crushed to a size of 10 cm in length by completely separating to rubber components from iron components in a single crushing process. It is intended to extensively simplify the process to produce rubber powder from waste tires and to promote material recycling of the used tires. The method comprises the steps of catching the tire chips between monoaxial rotary blades 3 rotated within a casing 2 and fixed blades 4 and 4 fixed and arranged at opposed positions and maintaining a gap slightly larger than diameter of a piano wire 9 contained in the tires, rupturing only the rubber components without cutting piano wires and steel fibers, tearing and withdrawing rubber components by rotation of the rotary blade 3, and crushing while separating rubber components from iron components.