Continental Conveyor bucket-elevator systems are reliable for raising bulk materials

Continental makes two designs of bucket elevators.

For more than 55 years, Continental Conveyor has led Canadian industry as a designer, manufacturer, and supplier of mechanical systems for handling bulk material. A key example is its bucket-elevator systems. Continental provides bucket elevators in centrifugal or continuous models, and they have earned a glowing reputation for rugged construction and reliability.

These bucket elevators offer a highly efficient, economical, and reliable method of elevating virtually any loose bulk materials from 300 mesh to five inches in lump size.

A quality piece of equipment

The types of bucket-elevator systems businesses should buy depend on the type and size of the material they will convey. Centrifugal bucket elevators work best for handling fine, free-flowing material that can be dug from the elevator boot. Users can handle small lumps with a properly sized bucket. The equipment discharges buckets with centrifugal force as they pass over the head sprocket or pulley. The design allows a lower feed point and simpler loading; it also employs fewer buckets than continuous models do, and the buckets can be mounted on a belt or chain.

Continental recommends continuous bucket elevators for sluggish, aerated, or friable materials and for materials with a large lump percentage. Continuously spaced buckets are mounted on a single strand of chain or belt, travelling at speeds lower than those of centrifugal units. A loading leg confines these models at the loading zone to prevent materials from spilling into the bottom of the boot, as the closely spaced buckets cannot dig materials out of the boot efficiently.

These buckets are designed so that the fronts and extended sides form a chute as they pass around the head pulley or sprocket. Gravity causes the materials to flow gently out of the buckets and down the chute formed by the preceding buckets, into the discharge spout.

Every one of Continental’s bucket-elevator systems is a quality piece of equipment that can handle a broad range of challenging applications over a long lifespan. The company has master many great conveyor products, including this one, for close to six decades in this field.

For more information, contact Continental Conveyor.

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