Types of Rock Crushers | Quarry Crushing Equipment | Kemper
However, you'll find four basic designs—cone, jaw, gyratory, and impact crushers—operating within many crushing plants. Jaw Crushers. In compression crushing, jaw crushers tend to be more of a blunt instrument compared to cone crushers, which is why they're often used in the primary rock crushing circuit stage. Jaw crushers are also known as "rock breakers" and are used to break up ...