Standard Features

  • All bucket elevators are designed and manufactured to meet all 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

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

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 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 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!

Product Types

Single discharge 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.

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Multiple discharge 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.

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Indexing conveyors are unique in design and function. Indexing 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.

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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


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