Product Digest: this month's topic Solids Handling

Bucket Elevator Enables Rapid Process Line Expansion

The multi-axis Elecon bucket conveyor and elevator system now comes with mid-size buckets with a capacity of 495 in.3 - more than twice the capacity of the original Elecon system. The conveyor has a patented chain and uses wedge-shaped, cantilevered buckets that come together and overlap at the loading or fi Hing station. The patented rack-and-pinion system ensures full discharge with a 360-deg. bucket rotation and quick return to the upright position. The system can convey materials vertically, horizontally or in any direction up to 180-deg., which provides flexibility for process configurations without the need to transfer …