Bucket Elevators

Introduction

Bucket elevators are designed to move flowing powders or bulk solids vertically. Bucket elevators use an endless belt or chain and have a series of buckets attached to it. Bulk material is spread into an inlet hopper. Buckets dig into the material and convey it up and over the head sprocket/pulley, and then throw the material out a discharge throat.

Bucket elevators are not self-feeding, and are fed at a controlled rate. The buckets are usually where the chain or belt path is vertical or steeply inclined in a single plane. The buckets are returned back down to a tail pulley or sprocket at the bottom.

There are four broad classifications of bucket elevators: centrifugal, continuous, positive, and internal discharge. The most commonly used are the centrifugal and continuous discharge elevators.

WEARCO NSW industrial bucket elevators are made in a variety of shapes, weights and sizes, all utilizing centrifugal buckets or continuous buckets.

Centrifugal Bucket Elevators

Centrifugal bucket elevators are most commonly used to convey all free-flowing, powdered bulk solids such as grains, animal feed, sand, minerals, sugar, aggregates, chemicals and more. They operate at high speeds, which throw the materials out the buckets into discharge throats by centrifugal force.

WEARCO NSW’s elevator design program can assist clients in almost all fields of industrial application for design and manufacture of new machines along with recommendations for retrofitting modification to increase performance of existing machines.

Elevator Components – Buckets

WEARCO NSW supply an extensive range of elevator components manufactured by internationally recognised pressed steel and industrial plastics component Braime Elevator Components.