Splitting device for stone blocks has suspension for block with horizontal alignment of laminations

摘要

The splitting device (10) for stone (slate) blocks conducts a splitting process following the natural lamination of the slate. The device has a suspension device (14) for fixing the block (18) in suspension, with the laminations in a roughly horizontal alignment, at low clearance above a turntable (12). There is at least one tool (26) to act horizontally on the block.