Bucket Elevator for Ceramic Sand Product

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 (or cups) 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.
Introduction of Bucket Elevator
Bucket elevator can elevate a variety of bulk materials from light to heavy and from fine to large lumps. According to different operation speed of the hopper, it can be divided into three categories: Centrifugal discharge bucket elevator, gravity discharge bucket elevator and compound discharge bucket elevator. Bucket elevator has different types of traction components, chain, plate chain, plastic belt and so on.