This is a brief article to introduce certain basic areas of bucket elevator chains and bucket elevator conveying systems to non-technical persons. It describes components of a system using roller chain & sprockets.
A Bucket Elevator is an economical and efficient inclined conveying system in which buckets are installed on a circulating conveying program, to vertically convey an array of small to bulky components to successive delivering systems. These elevators are available across the entire spectrum of industry.
A variety of mechanical drives can be utilized to power bucket elevators such as:
– Direct drive geared electric motor.
– Electric engine drive using V-belt & pulleys.
– Electric motor drive utilizing a roller chain & sprocket.
– Electric motor drive using 
a combination of the next & 3rd options.
– Geared engine with roller chain & sprockets.
Bucket Elevators often contain a number of buckets mounted on a bucket elevator chain through brackets linked with a chain bolt in a loose fit, with sprockets located at strategic points and at the top and bottom of the unit.
