Bucket Elevator and Conveyor Standard Features
- All bucket elevators are designed and manufactured to meet customer’s requirements including sanitation and safety.
- Type 304 stainless steel frames with 2B Finish and smooth
interior surfaces
- Type 304 stainless steel tubular legs and drive frames
- Framework and components are mounted on standoffs to reduce
or eliminate film of water points
- Product contact points, other than buckets, are all
stainless steel
- All welds in product contact are ground smooth
- Stainless steel shafts
- Carbon steel sprockets
- Premium carbon steel conveyor chain
- Continuous TIG welds throughout
- Smooth body TEFC-AC motor
- Right Angle gear box provides reliable power transmission.
Minimum service factor is 1.5
- Stainless Steel take-up units with spring loading for
simple, accurate chain tensioning
- Stainless steel non-adjustable cams and guides for
maintenance free bucket tracking
- Sanitary UHMW Chain Guides captivate the chain to provide
excellent stability and wear resistance
- Standard LEXAN® Buckets - durable, tough, and sanitary
- All stainless steel hardware, no split lock washers are
used and aircraft lock nuts are used throughout
- All controls carry the CULUS label
Bucket Elevator and Conveyor Optional Features
- A variety of Washdown/Corrosion Resistant
configurations/designs are available to suit our customer’s unique
requirements
- Motor construction options include TENV, Washdown Duty and
Explosion Proof.
- Motors are suited to meet customer power requirements such
as 380V/50Hz or 575V/60Hz
- Optional Bucket materials include polypropylene,
metal-impregnated polypropylene, XYLEX®, XENOY® and stainless steel.
- Dimpled buckets as well as textured sheet metal are
available when product release issues exist
- Tamping discharges available to aid in product release for
frozen foods or sticky products
- Indexing drives available for kit assemblies, food product
assemblies, etc.
- Custom controls are available to suit non-standard
applications
- Customized equipment to feed
the elevators are available
- Downstream devices, such as cross-feeders, are available
Bucket Elevator and Conveyor Advantages
- Gentle Handling – Fragile products can be handled without
product degradation
- Sanitary design – careful attention to details allow us to
meet or exceed the customer’s sanitation requirements
- Safe – Exceeds basic OSHA safety requirements offering
several different guarding options
- Interlocking bucket design – rounded bucket lip sheds
product and prevents product spillage
- Over 10 different bucket elevator/conveyor configurations to fit any application
and/or layout needs
- Single and Multiple discharge designs available
- Capability to integrate with a variety of upstream and
downstream equipment
- Versatile – Serves a variety of industries and products –
foods, chemicals, plastics, and more!
- Right the First Time – Utilize computer-aided drafting
(CAD)
software to provide preliminary drawings with all quotations to ensure
correct installations the first time.
- Customization of Infeed and Discharge available to meet
customer
specific requirements, reduce product free-fall drop, and system
integration
- Energy Efficient – Most bucket elevators run on fractional horse
power motors
- Long Life Cycle – Life span is measured in decades rather
than years!
- Ideal for Indexing Applications such as kit assemblies,
food product assemblies, and more!
Bucket Elevator and Conveyor Types
Single discharge bucket conveyors are an
efficient method
of conveying and elevating product from Point A to Point B. Multiple
infeed points to a single discharge can be included in the single
discharge design – for example, elevating and conveying two separate
products into one bulk bag.
View our Single
Discharge Conveyors
Multiple discharge bucket conveyors
convey and elevate product to many locations, for example, feeding a
number of bagging machines from one conveying line. Multiple infeed
points can also be utilized in this design.
View our
Multiple Discharge Conveyors
Indexing bucket conveyors
are unique in design and function. Indexing bucket conveyors are timed to
accept a certain amount of product in each bucket, and then discharge
product in a packaging machine. For example, accepting a set of game
pieces that are to be packaged and included in each end users’ board
game (red piece, yellow piece, green piece, and blue piece, then one
dice) and elevating them into a packaging machine, discharging the
pieces every 1.5 seconds – which is based on the time needed by the
feeding device and the packaging machine.
View our
Indexing Conveyors
Industries Served
Our products are ideal for servicing the following industries,
among many others:
Confections |
Pet Products |
IQF Veggies |
Chocolates |
Industrial Products |
Hardware |
Snack Foods |
Tobacco Products |
Frozen Meats |
Dried and Fresh Fruit |
