Bucket elevator

Bucket elevator

A bucket elevator is a mechanism used to carry or handle bulk materials vertically (as in the case of grains, seeds, fertilizers, minerals, etc.).

It would be the vertical equivalent of the conveyor. Elements

The bucket elevator consists of: Principles and operation

A centrifugal discharge lift must be vertical or tilted. The vertical elevators depend entirely on the action of the centrifugal force to direct the material towards the discharge chute and must be operated at a relatively high speed. Inclined elevators with very close or very close buckets must carry the discharge chute under the conductive pulley. As these do not depend so much on the centrifugal force to make the discharge, the speed of operation speed may be less.

Nearly all centrifugal discharge lifts have buckets spaced with rounded bottoms and take the product from a pit or stack of material on the driven pulley.

Buckets can also be triangular in cross sections and installed very close to each other with a very small gap between each one, known as "continuous bucket elevator" and its main application is the handling of materials difficult to transport to a low speed.

The first manufactured bucket elevators used flat chains with metal buckets spaced a few inches apart. Most rubber bands are now used with plastic buckets. Pulleys of several feet in diameter are used both at the upper and lower ends. The upper pulley or "driven pulley" is started by means of an electric motor.

A device with a similar principle but with flat steps is the electric ladder for humans or some devices installed in the parking lots for the employees.

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