How Much do You Know the Reasons of Buckets Falling of Bucket Elevator?

1.Too much feeding. It will cause material blocking in the machine, and increase elevator resistance. Feeding too much is the main reason of buckets’ falling. Stop the machine immediately in the situation, and take out spile under frame. Discharge material in engine base, replace new buckets, and then start to production. Meanwhile, decrease feeding volume uniformly.

2.The position of inlet is too low. In general, bucket serve materials from inlet automatically when bucket elevator is in operation. If the position of inlet is too low, buckets may have no time to serve materials and then most materials into engine base. However, materials are lump, which is easy to cause the deformation and falling. Inlet position should be above the center line of return pulley.

3.Bad material of bucket with limited strength. Buckets are the bearing parts of bucket elevator, and have high requirements on buckets materials. Select material with high strength when install. In general, buckets are welded or pressed by common steel plate or galvanized plates, and edges should be folded or involved in galvanized wire to enhance the strength of buckets.

4.Haven’t discharging materials in engine base when starting up. There is always down phenomenon caused by power failure or other reason in operation. And when re-start, buckets are easy falling as too much impact if no discharging materials in engine base. Therefore, must discharge materials in engine base to avoid buckets falling. In addition, check the connection of buckets and belt regular. If screw is loose or falling, or buckets are damaged, check and replace in time to avoid more accidents.

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The Right Way to Install the Bucket Elevator

1.Before the installation you should fixed base firstly, base should be fixed on the reliable basis, then connected to the machine base barrel step by step, finally connecting the handpiece and installing gear motor.

Bucket Elevator Bearing

2.After installation and alignment the whole machinery, you should make sure that barrels across the floor and must be fixed with the floor, if it has attachment then you should install bearing housing bracket to prevent the whole machine tilt and displacement.

Bottom Section

3.In order to ensure seal the barrels connection allows to use the barrel gasket.

Inspection Window

4.Hopper should installed on the hopper belt as required, hopper belt with hopper were placed from both ends of the handpiece. When you install the hopper belt, you should raise the bottom wheel to the highest position.

Middle Section

5.Aligning the head wheel shaft to horizontal, and make the head and tail wheel shaft are located within a unified vertical tail plane.

6.Bucket elevator is one kind of vertical transportation equipment, head wheel, bottom wheel, and barrels should be sought in the same vertical line; the deviation per meter length should not more than 2 mm, the accumulation of deviation should not more than 8 mm.

Bucket Elevator

7.Hopper mounted in the elevator, there should not happen deviation result in the housing crash 

8.The hopper belt tensioning device should ensure the necessary uniform tension during normal work.

9.After finish the elevator installation, you should filled every lubrication part with oil lubrication, before the loading test and put into production you should make sure that the no-load test can normal work.