Transportation Systems

Bucket Elevator

Bucket elevator for vertical handling of cereals, seeds, salt, sugar, pellet, fertilizer and grains with flow rate up to 400 cm/h.

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MIAL Bucket elevators are the best-possible compromise for the handling and vertical transport of a vast quantity of bulk products. Different grain sizes even at great heights. 

It is used for transporting free-flowing materials and products. In particular cereals, salt, sugar, polymers, wood, small wood chips, pellets and fertilizers.

The bucket elevator, in fact, is widely used in the most diverse industrial sectors thanks to its extreme versatility. In particular in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, ceramic, and metallurgical sectors.

 

Bucket elevator operation

1.   Depending on the customer's requirements, The product is transported in a series of buckets (cups) made of food-grade AISI 304 stainless steel or other material.

2.   The cups are arranged at regular intervals on a belt driven by a drive pulley, which in turn is held in tension by an idler pulley. The vertical section is made from closed or flap-mounted steel modules.

3.   The product is conveyed from the loading head of the elevator to be collected by the buckets and transported vertically to the unloading point.

 

Bucket elevator features

  • STRUCTURE MATERIAL: According to customer requirements: AISI 304 stainless steel or Painted steel. To guarantee robustness, durability and maximum hygiene.
  • TRANSPORT SPEED: Max speed 400 cm/h.
  • HIGHLY CUSTOMISABLE SYSTEM - The following can be chosen according to customer requirements: Structure material, Loading and unloading points, Transport capacity mc/h and Type of buckets.

 

Buckets features:

  • Available in Aisi 304 Stainless Steel, Iron, Resistant Plastic Material.
  • Available in 9 sizes, depending on product requirement.
  • Easily removable for cleaning and maintenance.
  • FDA Compliant: safe material for direct food contact.

 

Bucket elevator advantages

  • The various advantages of this transportation system include:
  • Ease of installation
  • Low maintenance
  • Reliability
  • Small dimensions
  • Durability
  • Availability of various accessories

 

Available accessories

We have decades of experience in building transportation systems. In order to guarantee a high level of performance, our bucket elevators can be equipped with numerous accessories:

- RPM control

- Anti-flooding control

- Anti-clogging control

- Easy-cleaning system applicable to the load head. 

 

Pendulum Bucket Elevator

For the transport of delicate and highly fragile products MIAL designs and manufactures the Pendulum Bucket Elevator suitable for a wide range of sectors, from food to chemicals. 

 

 

Below is an in-depth discussion and a demonstration video of one of our installations at the Martini spa company (Longiano, Italy).

 

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FEATURES AND BENEFITS

There are many reasons to choose our products

  • 01 High unloading height
  • 02 Wide range of models with flow rates up to 650 m³ per hour
  • 03 Modular structure in a way to allow fast installation in the field
  • 04 Inspection doors on the loading and unloading sections
  • 05 Cleanliness and no contamination of the product transported
  • 06 Buckets easy to replace through the door
  • 07 Loading head easy to clean through manual and automatic system
  • 08 Energy saving through the careful dimensioning of the components
  • 09 Very reliable also with heavy duty applications
  • 10 Limited maintenance

DIFFERENT OPTIONS

FOR A PERFECT SOLUTION

Manufactured in 304 stainless steel

Manufactured in 316 stainless steel

Self-cleaning product loading head

Walkways and access ladder

Rev. control sensor

Anti-skid sensor

Anti-jamming sensor

Loading and unloading hopper

Support and interlocking structures

Conveyors or Loading and unloading systems

ATEX version

Control panel

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