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A belt to carry the buckets and transmit the pull; Means to drive the belt; Accessories for loading the buckets or picking up the material, for receiving the discharged material, for maintaining the belt tension and for enclosing and protecting the elevator. A bucket elevator can elevate a variety of bulk materials from light to heavy and from ...
The mechanical means used are, depending on design, combinations of the screw feed, the conveyor belt, the bucket chain, the paddle and the ram. Steam jets from the boiler or a mechanical catapult may also be used to throw coal into the far reaches of the furnace. [2] [3] [4]
As of January 2008, Spain is the nation with the most elevators installed per capita [104] in the world, with 950,000 elevators installed [105] that run more than one hundred million lifts every day, followed by United States with 700,000 elevators installed and China with 610,000 elevators installed since 1949. [106]
Bulk material handling systems are typically composed of stationary machinery such as conveyor belts, screw conveyors, tubular drag conveyors, moving floors, toploaders, stackers, reclaimers, bucket elevators, truck dumpers, railcar dumpers or wagon tipplers, shiploaders, hoppers and diverters and various mobile equipment such as loaders ...
A paternoster in Prague Paternoster elevator in The Hague, when it was still in operation. A paternoster (/ ˌ p eɪ t ər ˈ n ɒ s t ər /, / ˌ p ɑː-/, or / ˌ p æ-/) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two people) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping.
Railroad grain terminal in Hope, Minnesota. A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.
Her aft cabins and engine room were cut down and a notch for a push tug constructed on her stern, and the cargo hold was reconstructed for a single unloading conveyor belt with a bucket elevator system aft feeding a 250' unloading boom on her spar deck.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Aumund founded Aumund Fördertechnik GmbH 3 August 1922 in Berlin. Numerous patents were filed in the field of conveying and transport technology in the course of his research and engineering activity at the Technische Hochschule Danzig, as well as at the Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin), enabling Heinrich Aumund to rapidly develop the ...