The advantage of briquetting over such pelletizing and sintering processes is that briquetting allows to obtain a product of strictly regulated dimensions, and no chemical transformations take place in the initial mixture during the briquetting process. In addition, this process is the most favorable from the point of view of sanitary requirements.
In the branches of the boom construction industry of the country in the extraction and processing of natural stone, one of the factors restraining the increase in productivity and labor efficiency is the practical complete absence of mechanisms and devices for loading and unloading operations.
In 1981-1983, the industry laboratory of mechanization of labor-intensive work at mining enterprises LMI surveyed the operating conditions and modes of operation of production equipment from the point of view of safety at five basic enterprises of the non-metallic industry, representing mica, vermiculite and feldspar industry.
The main supplier of sawing stone for the industry of construction materials is the quarries of the Azerbaijan SSR. The basis for choosing the cross feed of the stone cutting machine is the scheme of stone extraction and sawing adopted at the quarries, according to which the stone is cut by stone cutting machines SM-89M into blocks of 188 x 190 x 390 mm in size.
