Engineered Bucket Elevators

A Link-Belt^® designed bucket elevator is your assurance of quality and dependability, and the standard Type 1 and Type 7 SMH bucket elevators have many outstanding features:

• Standardization of designs that are dependable and versatile.
• Continuous or centrifugal type discharge.
• Rigid, strong, jig-built casings in perfect alignment and weather-tight.
• Two-piece hood permitting access to head section interior without disturbing machinery. Spring clamps facilitate removal and replacement.
• Inspection hatch that can be easily lifted to view terminal machinery.
• Optional shaft mounted speed reducer drive- compact and easy to install.
• Large, latch-type doors located on front, back and sides of boot section to facilitate inspection, service, and cleanout.
• The head shaft is mounted in antifriction ball or roller bearing pillow blocks.
• Superior components: chains, sprockets, pulleys, belts, buckets, bearings, takeups, and drives. 

Typical bulk handling applications include:

• Delivery of dry citrus pellets to railroad hopper cars.
• Elevating soda ash, fertilizer, or limestone to silo storage.
• Depositing food products into weigh hoppers.
• Lifting coal from track hoppers to storage silos.
• Elevate aggregate materials for ready-mix concrete plants.