Cake Breaker

Rosedowns cake breakers are designed to match our press range. In Sterling series presses the breakers can be built integrally into the press discharge chute. For other presses and applications we manufacture a standalone model (shown) which would normally be mounted directly in the press discharge chute.

The working method and design of both types is essentially the same. Only the construction of the ‘box’ is changed.

In larger multi-press plants a large breaker or a set of dedicated rolls may be used to size the cake. However, in  the case of smaller or single press plants then the integral press discharge cake breaker is a neat solution to the problem of too large a cake partials.


Cake Breaker Features

Staggered breaker blades minimise the shock loads on the breaker shaft and help ensure a more even breaking of the product.

The rotating breaker blades pass through a stationary grid to provide a scissor cutting action. The grid is easily removed for cleaning and maintenance.

A simple rugged and reliable design with the minimum of moving and wearing parts ensures that the breaker that will cope with the most arduous of duties.

The breaker has been designed for reliability and ease of maintenance. All components in contact with the process material can be quickly and easily replaced.

The gearbox is a high efficiency. shaft mounted torque type, fitted with large bearings that will withstand the shock loads generated by the breaking action.


Typically the cake breaker will be used in applications, where the press naturally produces cake in very large sheets, such as when processing Sunflower.
When these sheets start to cool they can become very tough and make subsequent processing operations difficult, for example in a full pressing operation the handling and bagging of the cake can become very difficult if the cake pieces are too large.
In the case of a solvent extraction plant large sheets can give poor extraction results because of excessive solvent flow rates.