Bucket elevator is used to send granular and bulk materials from low to high, and the hopper of bucket elevator can be individually designed depending on the shipping materials. So, bucket hoist is also called elevator bucket, hoist bucket, hoist conveyor, bucket type lifter or plate chain bucket elevator.

The hopper of bucket elevator has a variety of shapes and models. According to the different connectors, bucket conveyer can be divided into ring-type, chain-type and belt-type.

Bucket elevator is one of the essential equipment in flour mill production line, and it can also be used to support ore-dressing production line.

Bucket elevator, which is also known as the bucket conveyor or bucket hoist, is used for the vertical lifting of the materials that have been crushed such as the limestone, coal, gypsum, clinker, dry clay and other granular materials as well as the powdery material such as the raw material, cement, coal and other materials. The traction component of the bucket elevator includes the ring chain, plate chain and tape and other several types. The structure and manufacturing of the ring chain is relatively simple and the connection of the hopper is also very strong. When transporting the abrasive material, the wear of the chain is small, but its weight is heavy. Plate chain has strong structure, light weight and it can be applied to the hoist with large capacity, but the hinged joints is easy to get worn. The structure of the tape is relatively simple, but it is not suitable for conveying abrasive materials. As for the ordinary tape, the temperature  of the materials does not exceed 60 ° C, the wire cable tape allows the material temperature to be 80 ° C, the heat-resistant tape allows the material temperature to reach 120 ° C.

Features:

1. The driving power is small; the intensive layout of large capacity hopper;
2. It has the wide lifting range and has few requirements of the types and characteristics of the materials;
3. The operation is reliable; advanced design principles and processing methods ensure the reliability of machine operation;
4. The lifting height is high; the operation is stable;
5. It has long service life; it rarely occurs the extrusion and collision phenomena between the materials.