Bucket Elevator

Bucket elevators are used for continuous vertical lifting of powders, granules and small lumps and consist of a series of buckets attached to belts or chains with pulleys or sprockets at the top and bottom of the unit and buckets in the housing or Enclosures to contain material, bulk material is loaded into each bucket as the bucket moves through the entry point. The bucket elevator is widely used in feed mills, flour mills, starch factories, grain depots and other places of various scales to lift bulk materials.
The hopper scoops up the material from the storage below. As the conveyor belt or chain rises to the top, it turns downward around the top wheel, and the bucket elevator pours the material into the receiving slot. The belt of belt-driven bucket elevator generally adopts rubber belt, which is mounted on the lower or upper driving drum and the upper and lower reversing drum. The bucket elevator with chain drive is usually equipped with two parallel transmission chains, with a pair of transmission sprockets on or below and a pair of directional sprockets on or above. Bucket elevators are usually equipped with organic shells to prevent dust from flying in bucket elevators.