Fote Machinery develops, manufactures, and markets rock drilling equipment, mobile crushers and screeners for various applications in civil engineering, quarries and open-pit mines worldwide. We focus on innovative product design and after-market support systems, which give added customer value.

We now offer a wide range of mobile crushing and screening plants suited for demolition, quarrying and road construction applications. The crushers offer high-performance while being straightforward and reliable. We provide the qualities in crushing and screening plants that customers want.

Jaw crushers are mainly used as primary crushers. Their main purpose is to produce material that can be transported by belt conveyors to the next crushing stages. The crushing takes place between a fixed and moving jaw which is mounted on a pitman, and its motion it set up by the movement produced by the eccentric shaft at the top of the pitman.

Screening principles for vibrating screens are basically the same for any application. Material to be screened is fed onto a screening surface. As the material loses its vertical velocity it is submitted to a change in direction of travel. Through vibration, the bed of material assumes a fluid motion. The larger fractions rise to the top of this bed and the smaller fractions filter through the gaps. These smaller-sized particles reach the mesh elements and either fall through because they are smaller than the mesh apertures or stay moving because they are bigger than the mesh openings. In two-deck screeners the material falling through the top mesh repeats the process on the bottom mesh.