Bucket Elevator

Selection Guide

Bucket Elevator Selection Guide

Bucket Elevator
Selection Guide

Bucket Elevators are ideal for elevating a

variety of bulk materials economically,
efficiently and reliably. The two main
type of Bucket Elevators are Centrifugal
type and Continuous type.

Centrifugal Bucket Elevators are extremely suitable for handling fine, free flowing
materials. They have Lower feed point,
simpler loading and lesser no. of buckets
compared to continuous type. Buckets
are on chain or belt and travel at high
speeds to effect discharge by centrifugal
forces as they pass around the head pulley. The buckets are mounted at intervals
on a chain belt.

The buckets are mounted continuously on

the normally friction surface belts. Continuous type steel buckets are used leaving minimum clearance between the
buckets. Drive is through shaft mounted
gear reducer with built in back stop or
through geared motor with chain drive.
The most suitable bucket elevators for
your application can be find by using
material selection table.

Continuous Bucket elevators have buckets mounted continuously on chain or

belt. These elevators are suitable for sluggish, aerated and friable material or material with larger % of lumps. Loading of
the buckets is through loading leg and
discharged over the face of the preceding
bucket while passing around the head
wheel.

Bucket Elevator Selection Guide

Material
Alfalfa Meal
Almonds, broken
Almonds, whole
Alum, ne
Alum, lumpy
Alumina
Aluminum chips
Aluminum hydrate
Aluminum ore, crushed (3" minus)
Aluminum oxide
Aluminum silicate
Aluminum sulphate
Ammonium chloride, crystalline
Ammonium nitrate
Ammonium sulphate, granular
Ashes (dry coal 3" minus)
Asphalt, crushed (1/2" minus)
Bakelite, powdered (similar products)
Baking powder
Barite
Barley
Bauxite, crushed (3" minus)
Beans, dry navy
Beans, whole castor
Bentonite (100 mesh minus)
Bentonite, crude
Bone meal
Bones, crushed (1/2" minus)
Bones, granulated or ground (1/8" miBorax, ne
Borax, screenings (1/2" minus)
Bran
Brewers grain, spent dry
Brewers grain, spent wet
Calcium oxide
Carbon black powder, channel
Carbon black powder, furnace
Carbon black, pelletized
Carborundum (3" minus)
Cast iron borings

Density (kg/lit)
Min

Max

0 27
0 45
0 45
0 72
08
08
0 11
0 29
12
1 12
0 78
0 86
0 72
0 72
0 72
0 56
0 72
0 56
0 64
2 88
0 61
12
0 58
0 77
0 56
08
0 54
08
0 88
0 72
0 88
0 26
0 88
04
0 96
0 32
0 06
0 06
16
2 08

0 27
0 48
0 48
08
0 96
1 04
0 24
0 29
1 36
1 92
0 78
0 86
0 83
0 72
0 93
0 64
0 72
0 72
0 88
2 88
0 61
1 36
0 58
0 77
0 64
0 96
0 64
08
0 96
0 88
0 96
0 32
0 96
0 48
1 04
04
0 11
0 11
16
32

Centrifugal

Continuous Discharge

Consult
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Bucket Elevator Selection Guide

Material
Cement clinker
Cement, portland
Cement, portland aerated
Chalk, lumpy
Chalk, pulverized (100 mesh minus)
Charcoal
Cinders, blast furnace
Cinders, coal
Clover seed
Coal, anthracite sized
Coal, anthracite, river coal & culm
Coal, bituminous, mined 50 mesh minus
Coal, bituminous, mined, run of mine
Coal, bituminous, mined, sized, over 1/2"
Coal, bituminous, mined, slack, 1/2" minus
Coal, bituminous, mined, stripping, unCocoa beans
Coee, green bean
Coee, roasted bean
Coke breeze, 1/4" minus
Coke, loose
Coke, petroleum, calcined
Copra
Copra Cake, groud
Copra Cake, lumpy
Copra meal
Cork, ne ground
Cork, granulated
Corn germs
Corn grits
Corn sugar
Corn, cracked
Corn, seed
Corn, shelled
Cornmeal
Cottonseed hulls
Cottonseed meal
Cottonseed meats
Cottonseed, cake, lumpy
Cottonseed, dry delinted

Density (kg/lit)
Min

Max

1 51
0 96
12
12
1 04
0 29
0 64
0 91
0 77
0 88
0 88
08
0 69
0 72
0 72
08
0 48
0 51
0 35
0 37
0 56
04
0 35
04
0 64
0 64
0 19
0 19
0 72
0 72
0 72
0 34
0 64
05
0 61
0 56
0 29
0 64
0 19
0 56

1 51
12
1 52
1 36
12
04
0 64
0 91
0 77
0 96
0 96
0 86
08
0 88
0 88
0 96
0 64
0 51
0 42
0 56
0 72
0 56
0 35
0 48
0 72
0 72
0 24
0 24
08
0 72
0 72
0 34
0 72
05
0 64
0 56
04
0 72
0 19
0 64

Continuous Discharge Consult

100 200 1400 700 800 1000 1100 PAXAA
Centrifugal

B
B
B

B
B

Bucket Elevator Selection Guide

Material
Cottonseed, dry with lint
Cracklings, crushed, 3" minus
Cullet
Dolomite, lumpy
Ebonite, crushed 1/2" minus
Feldspar, ground 1/2" minus
Feldspar, powdered 200 mesh
Flaxseed cake, expeller
Flaxseed meal
Flour, wheat
Flourspar, 1/2" screenings
Flue dust, boiler house, dry
Fuller's Earth, burnt, oil lter
Fuller's Earth, dry
Fuller's Earth, oily
Fuller's Earth, raw, oil lter
Glass batch
Glue, ground, 1/8" minus
Glue, pearl
Grains, distillery, spent dry
Granite, 1/2" screenings
Grass seed
Gravel, screened
Gypsum 1/2" screeninqs
Gypsum, 1 1/2" to 3" lumps
Gypsum, dust, aerated
Gypsum, dust, non-aerated
Hops, spent, dry
Hops, spent, wet
Ice, crushed
Ilmenite ore
Lignite, air dried
Lime, ground, 1/8" minus
Lime, hydrated, 1/8" minus
Lime, hydrated, pulverized
Lime, pebble
Limestone, agricultural, 1/8" minus
Limestone, crushed
Limestone, dust
Linseed meal

Density (kg/lit)
Min

Max

0 64
1 28
0 64
1 44
1 04
1 12
16
0 77
04
0 56
0 56
1 36
0 48
0 96
0 64
0 56
1 28
0 64
0 64
0 48
1 28
0 16
1 44
1 49
0 96
1 12
1 12
0 56
08
0 56
2 24
0 72
0 96
0 64
0 85
0 51
1 09
1 36
1 28
04

0 64
1 92
08
16
1 12
1 36
16
08
04
0 64
0 64
1 68
0 56
1 04
0 64
0 64
16
0 64
0 64
0 48
1 44
0 19
16
1 49
1 12
1 28
1 28
0 56
0 88
0 72
2 56
0 88
1 04
0 64
09
0 64
1 09
1 44
1 36
04

Centrifugal

Continuous Discharge Consult

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B

B
x2

x2

B
B
B
B
B

Bucket Elevator Selection Guide

Material
Malt meal
Malt, dry ground, 1/8" minus
Malt, dry, whole
Malt, wet or green
Marble, crushed, 1/2" minus
Meat Scrap
Muriate of potash
Mustard seed
Oats, rolled
Oxalic acid crystals
Peanuts, shelled
Peas, dried
Phosphate rock, broken, dry
Phosphate rock, pulverized
Phosphate, acid fertilizer
Phosphate, triple super
Pumice, ground, 1/8" minus
Rice bran
Rice grits
Roo nq granules
Rubber, ground
Salt, cake, dry, coarse
Salt, cake, dry, pulverized
Salt, dry, coarse
Salt, dry, ne
Sand, damp bank
Sand, dry bank
Sand, dry silica**
Sand, foundry, prepared
Sand, foundry, shakeout
Sawdust
Shale, crushed
Slag, blast furnace, crushed
Slag, blast furnace, granulated, dry
Slag, blast furnace, granulated, wet
Slate, crushed, 1/2" minus
Slate, dust
Soap beads or granules
Soap akes
Soda ash, heavy

Density (kg/lit)
Min

Max

0 35
0 43
0 96
0 58
0 54
08
1 23
0 72
03
0 96
0 72
0 56
12
0 96
08
0 96
0 64
0 26
0 67
1 36
1 04
1 12
0 64
1 36
0 96
1 76
1 44
1 44
1 12
1 44
0 16
1 36
1 28
0 96
1 44
1 28
1 12
0 24
0 08
0 32

0 35
0 48
1 04
0 64
0 64
0 88
1 23
0 72
03
0 96
08
0 72
1 36
0 96
0 88
0 96
0 72
0 32
0 72
1 52
1 12
1 28
0 88
1 36
1 36
2 08
1 76
16
1 44
16
0 21
1 44
1 44
1 04
16
1 44
1 28
04
0 24
0 56

Centrifugal

Continuous Discharge Consult

100 200 1400 700 800 1000 1100 PAXAA

B
B
B
B
B
B

B
B

Bucket Elevator Selection Guide

Material
Soda ash, light
Soybean cake, over 1/2"
Soybean akes, raw
Soybean meal, cold
Soybean meal, hot
Soybeans, cracked
Steel chips, crushed
Stone, crushed
Sugar beet, pulp, dry
Sugar beet, pulp, wet
Sugar, granulated
Sugar, powdered
Sugar, raw, cane
Tanbark, ground
Timothy seed
Wheat germ
Wheat, cracked
Wood chips
Wood shavings
Zinc concentrate
Zinc dust
Zinc ore, crushed
Zinc ore, roasted
Zinc oxide, heavy
Zinc oxide, light
B
LA
X2

Density (kg/lit)
Centrifugal
Continuous Discharge Consult
Min
Max 100 200 1400 700 800 1000 1100 PAXAA
0.88
1.04
0.48
0.64
0.64
0.69
0.32
0.42
0.64
0.64
0.64
0.64
1.6
2.4
1.44
1.6
LA
0.8
0.96
LA
0.8
0.88
0.19
0.24
0.88
1.04
0.88
1.04
0.88
0.88
0.58
0.58
0.64
0.72
0.45
0.45
B
0.16
0.48
B
0.13
0.24
3.2
3.2
1.2
1.28
2.56
2.56
1.76
1.76
0.48
0.56
0.16
0.24

Belt Type Elevator

Loading leg
Select elevator with double the required capacity