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Bucket Elevators
A bucket elevator is a mechanism for hauling flowable bulk material vertically. They are considered similar to conveyor belts, with the greatest difference being that bucket elevators move material using buckets attached to a rotating belt or chain. The buckets work to pick up material, move it to the desired endpoint, discharge material, and finally return to the starting point to pick up a new load
Centrifugal Discharge Elevators
This type of elevators is mostly vertical in operation and can handle practically any free flowing fine or small lumpy materials. In a centrifugal elevator buckets are loaded by the scooping of the buckets at the boot. Hence such elevators are used for relatively fine free flowing materials. Usually lump size larger than 50mm are not used for these types of elevators.
It is widely used for materials such as Grain, Coal, Sand, Clay, Sugar and Dry Chemicals.
Continuous Discharge Elevators
In a continuous discharge elevator, buckets are mounted without any gap on a chain or belt. This type of elevator often used for handling larger lumps of material that may be difficult to convey by centrifugal type. These elevators operate at a speed range of 30 to 50 m/min, which is much slower than that of the centrifugal discharge type. The slow speed and gentle method of loading and discharging makes this type of elevator suitable for fragile, fluffy or pulverized materials. It can operate in the vertical or inclined condition.
Mainly it is used in the cases of Lime, cement and dry chemicals.
Positive Discharge Elevators
This type of elevators is similar to the centrifugal discharge elevator except for two distinguishing features. The buckets are spaced at regular pitch and mounted on two strands of chains, and are provided with a snub wheel under the head sprockets to ensure inverting of the bucket for complete discharge. The speed of the bucket is slow in the range of 35 – 40 m/min. This type of elevators is used for handling light, fluffy, dusty and sticky materials. The feeding is done by the scooping or digging by the buckets.