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The buckets can be also triangular in cross-section and set close together on the belt with little or no clearance between them. This is a continuous bucket elevator. Its main use is to carry difficult materials [clarification needed] at a slow speed. Early bucket elevators used a flat chain with small, steel buckets attached every few inches ...
MULTI is the first cable-less elevator developed by TK Elevator (formerly ThyssenKrupp Elevator). Rather than using cables to lift the elevator, MULTI uses linear motors. [1] As well as moving vertically between floors of a building, MULTI can also move horizontally through a floor of a building. MULTI is being tested at Rottweil Test Tower. [2 ...
As of January 2008, Spain is the nation with the most elevators installed per capita [105] in the world, with 950,000 elevators installed [106] 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. [107]
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.
The Mutual Elevator company bought the elevator from the Great Northern Railroad in March 1903. [3] In 1921, a local buffalo group named the Island Warehouse Corporation purchased the building and railroad right-of-way. [3] The Pillsbury Company bought the elevator in 1935 and operated within the facility until 1981. [3]
Subsets of the excavator bucket are: the ditching bucket, trenching bucket, A ditching bucket is a wider bucket with no teeth, 5–6 feet (1.52–1.83 m) used for excavating larger excavations and grading stone. A trenching excavator bucket is normally 6 to 24 in (152 to 610 mm) wide and with protruding teeth.
A scene from a bucket shop in 1892. A bucket shop is a business that allows gambling based on the prices of stocks or commodities.A 1906 U.S. Supreme Court ruling defined a bucket shop as "an establishment, nominally for the transaction of a stock exchange business, or business of similar character, but really for the registration of bets, or wagers, usually for small amounts, on the rise or ...
The bucket-wheel itself can be over 21 m (70 ft) in diameter with as many as 20 buckets, each of which can hold over 15 m 3 (20 cu yd) of material. BWEs have also advanced with respect to the extreme conditions in which they are now capable of operating.