what's the difference of ring chain, plate chain, belt type bucket elevator?

The traction component of the bucket elevator includes ring chain, plate chain and belt type. Let's have a brief look at the difference of these three bucket elevators, hope it helps you better understand the effect of bucket elevator.

1. Ring chain’s structure and manufacture is simpler, the connection with the hopper is very firm, when conveying grinding material, the chain wear and tear is small, but the self weight is big.

2. Plate chain structure is relatively firm, self weight is lighter, which is suitable for a large handle capacity of bucket elevator.

3. Belt structure is simple, but it is not suitable for transporting big grinding material, ordinary rubber can bear material with temperature less than 60 ℃, allowed material temperature of steel wire can be up to 80 ℃, allowed material temperature of heat-resisting rubber belt can be up to 120 ℃, allowed material temperature of the ring chain, plate chain can be reach 250 ℃.

Bucket elevator is the most widely used equipment in the production , correct understanding the bucket elevator effect and knowledge, will attain the result with half effort, the most common used bucket elevator type includes belt type (TD) and ring chain(TH ) .When used for transporting bulk cement, deep type bucket is mostly used. Such as TD type belt bucket elevator adopts centrifugal unloading or mixed discharge, which is suitable for powdery and granular materials bulk density less than 1.5 t/m3.TH ring chain bucket elevator adopts mixed or gravity discharge for conveying powdery and granular materials with bulk density less than 1.5 t/m³.

Bucket elevators design considerations

Bucket elevator is widely used in many industries, the bucket elevator model selection is very important. What notices should we pay attention to during the selection of the model? Please check the following :
1.In general, the types of bucket elevator belt are ordinary or heat- resistant steel cord belt. Ordinary steel cord belt is suitable for material with temperature lower than 80 degree. Heat- resistant steel cord belt is suitable for material with temperature lower than 120 degree.
2.Considering the uneven feeding material and lump size, the allowance of the bucket elevator capacity should be sufficient.
3.The driven device support frame and maintenance platform should be installed on the head casing. Customer should state whether need the maintenance platform according to requirement.
4.There is dust removal flange on the head part of the bucket elevator. You can connect with dust collector if the material with large amount of dust.
5.Please provide the following information for us to select model: material name, size, bulk density, temperature, moisture content, lifting height, feeding equipment name, working indoor or outdoor.
6.If the conveying material is fly ash, the bucket speed should be less than 1.3 m/s. The driven part should be specially designed.