Bucket Conveyors manufacturer
Bucket conveyors emerge as a huge
mechanism with the arrangement of buckets/cups, provide easy movement of material.
Bucket Conveyors are specifically used, where free flow bulk material is
required to be transferred
vertically. It is a mechanism, where
buckets are added in a way providing, it easy movement vertically. It can
contain free-flow bulk material and transfer the material at vertical heights.
Neo Bucket conveyors are specially designed to
move free-flowing powders or bulk solids vertically with ease. Bucket Conveyors require a chain or belt with the arrangement of buckets in series enabling easy movement vertically.
For the movement of material at vertical points,
the bulk material is fed into an inlet hopper. The Buckets or cups, which are
attached to the chain or belt, dig into the material and convey/transfer it up
and over the head sprocket/pulley, and then the material is thrown out a
discharge chute or throat.
Bucket Conveyors manufacturer :
- Number of Buckets or Cups to contain material.
- A suitable belt or chain to convey the material, enabling buckets to carry them and transmit the pull.
- An Electronic Motor and a Gear Box to act as a driver.
- Various accessories are added to it, along with its unique mechanism, such as, loading the buckets, picking material, receiving material, maintaining belt tension, protecting the conveyor, etc.
Bucket Conveyors are usually used, where, there
is a need to transfer or convey the free flow material at vertical heights or steep inclined
planes. The buckets are returned back
down to a tail pulley or sprocket at the bottom.
Classification of Bucket's conveyors can be
made into four major heads: centrifugal, continuous, positive, and
internal discharge. The most commonly used are centrifugal and
continuous discharge conveyors.
Centrifugal discharge bucket elevators
Centrifugal discharge bucket elevators are made specifically to be
used to provide movement to free-flow material, powdered bulk solids such as
grains, animal feed, sand, minerals, sugar, aggregates, chemicals, etc. They are fast and operated at high speed,
throwing the materials out of the buckets into discharge throats by centrifugal
force.
Centrifugal Discharge Bucket Conveyors can have buckets attached/mounted
at intervals, on a belt or chain. Centrifugal
Discharge Bucket Conveyors are used to handle bulk material, which can be
picked up by the spaced buckets, as they pass under the boot wheel and discharge
by centrifugal forces as the buckets pass over the head.
A centrifugal discharge conveyor may be vertical
or inclined. Vertical Conveyors, depend entirely on the action of
centrifugal force to get the material into the discharge chute and must be run
at speeds relatively high. Inclined elevators with buckets spaced apart or set
close together may have the discharge chute set partly under the head pulley.
Since they don’t depend entirely on the centrifugal force to put the material
into the chute, the speed may be relatively lower.
Continuous discharge bucket elevators
continuous discharge bucket elevators are used to handling friable,
fragile materials, as they minimize the damage of product or are used to handle light fluffy materials, where aeration of
the product must be avoided.
Continuous bucket conveyors operate at a slower speed having buckets spaced continuously on
a belt or a chain. These are
recommended especially, where such material is required to be handled which are
difficult to pick up in a boot or friable materials.
The continuous bucket placement on a belt or a chain, allows the
force of gravity to discharge their load onto the inverted front of the
proceeding bucket. The bucket then guides that material into the discharge
throat on the descending side of the conveyor.
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