Elevator Bucket

A bucket elevator, also called a grain leg, is a mechanism for hauling flowable bulk materials vertically.A bucket elevator can elevate a variety of bulk materials from light to heavy and from fine to large lumps.A centrifugal discharge elevator may be vertical or inclined. Vertical elevators depend entirely on centrifugal force to get the material into the discharge chute, and so must be run at a relatively high speed. Inclined elevators with buckets spaced apart or set close together may have the discharge chute set partly under the head pulley. Since they do not depend entirely on centrifugal force to put the material into the chute, their speed may be slower.