Cone crusher is a kind of equipment which uses the gap between two cones to crush. Since the crushing force is pulsating during operation, especially when iron blocks are sometimes mixed in the crushing process, all cone crushers must be equipped with spring mechanism. According to the different properties of the springs, they can be divided into mechanical spring cone crusher and hydraulic cone crusher.

Hydraulic cone crusher can be divided into two types: fixed spindle and floating spindle according to the different adjustment ways of ore discharge port. The main shaft fixed discharging orifice adjustment is to adjust the discharging orifice by moving up and down with fixed cone spiral. The advantage of this adjustment method is that the discharging orifice is easy to lock. The main shaft floating discharging orifice adjustment is to adjust the discharging orifice by floating up and down the main shaft. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to lock the discharging orifice when crushing hard ore.

Hydraulic cone crusher can also be divided into coarse crushing rotary crusher, medium crushing standard cone crusher and fine crushing short-head cone crusher according to different uses.

From the beginning of 20th century to the mid-1980s, the mechanical spring cone crusher has a leading place in the market, while the hydraulic cone crusher has been in a disadvantaged position because of its own technical limitations. Therefore, the structure of mechanical spring cone crusher has been continuously improved and practiced, and has been widely used and recognized in the world. But there were also some of the spring cone crusher are as follows: 1) the overiron protection stroke of the spring is too small; 2) the rotation speed of the spindle and the moving cone assembly must be limited so as to avoid burning copper sleeve by the flying car; 3) once the crushing chamber is blocked, it is difficult to clean up; 4) the adjustment of the discharge port is inconvenient; 5) the disassembly of the fixed cone takes too long time; 6) the water ring seal is often mixed into the lubricating oil, which results in the waste of lubricating oil.

With the rapid development of technology, hydraulic cone crusher began to go to the world. On the basis of spring cone crusher, Liming Heavy Industry has developed single cylinder hydraulic cone crusher and multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher with intellectual property rights. It has advantages of large crushing capacity, high crushing efficiency, gentle slope, high quality product and fine ore content, and quickly occupies most of the market share.