Vertical handling

Bucket Elevator Manufacturer in Chennai

The cheapest way to take bulk material straight up. Centrifugal discharge for free-flowing material at speed, continuous discharge for anything fragile or sluggish. Fill factor is what people get wrong — a starved boot will quietly cost you a third of the rated capacity.

Made to orderMS · SS 304 · SS 316GA drawing before fabricationErection across India

Specification

Lift height3 – 24 m

Capacity5 – 120 TPH

Bucket capacity1 – 12 litres

Speed0.5 – 2.0 m/s

TractionBelt or chain

DischargeCentrifugal or continuous

Material of construction

MS casing and buckets as standard. SS 304 buckets and casing for food and chemical duty.

Typically handles

Grain
Clinker
Fly ash
Minerals
Sugar
Fertiliser
Foundry sand

Options we build in

Backstop on the drive — essential, stops a power cut running the column backwards
Belt sag and misalignment switches
Inspection doors on both legs
Boot cleanout door and drag-back plate
Dust-tight casing with vent connection
Screw take-up at the boot

How we build it

Discharge type decides the whole machine. Centrifugal elevators run fast and throw the material clear at the head — right for free-flowing grain and granules. Continuous elevators run slow and let the material roll off the back of the bucket in front — right for fragile or sluggish material. Get that choice wrong and the machine recirculates its own load no matter how well it is built.

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Bucket Elevator Capacity & Power Calculator

Capacity and motor rating from bucket size, pitch, speed, fill factor and lift.

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Where this is used

Industries

Bucket Elevator — common questions

Centrifugal or continuous discharge?

Centrifugal for free-flowing, non-fragile material at higher throughput. Continuous for fragile, sluggish, hot or very fine material where a fast throw would cause breakage or blow-back. The head geometry differs, so it has to be decided before fabrication.

What causes material to fall back down a bucket elevator?

Usually belt or chain speed that does not match the head pulley diameter, so the material leaves the bucket at the wrong point in the arc. Boot flooding and worn buckets do the rest. Our bucket elevator calculator sizes speed against lift.