Construction and application of centrifugal grain conveying elevator

2024-03-06 17:42:15

The centrifugal grain conveyor elevator can be vertical or inclined, the vertical lift depends entirely on the role of centrifugal force, so that the material into the discharge tank, and must run at a relatively high speed, with spaced or set together blade tilt lift can make the discharge tank partially set under the head pulley. Since they do not rely entirely on centrifugal force to put the material into the chute, the speed may be relatively low.

Almost all centrifugal grain conveyor hoists have spaced buckets with rounded bottoms at the bottom to pick up the load from boots on the foot pedals, pits or piles of material.

The cross section of the bucket may also be triangular and set close to the belt, with little or no gap between them; This is a continuous Bucket Elevator, its main use is to transport difficult materials at low speeds.

Early bucket hoists used flat chains to which a small steel bucket was attached every few inches. While some elevators are still made with chains and steel drums, most existing bucket elevator structures use rubber belts with plastic drums. Pulleys a few feet in diameter are used for the top and bottom. The top pulley is driven by a motor.