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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 Peavey–Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator is the world's first known cylindrical concrete grain elevator. It was built from 1899 to 1900 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States, as an experiment to prove the design was viable. It was an improvement on wooden elevators that were continually at risk of catching fire or even ...
1918 Alberta Pacific elevator (right) and 1968 Federal Grain elevator. The 1968 65,000-imperial-bushel (2,400 m 3) Federal Grain elevator measures 38 × 44 × 66 feet (12 × 13 × 20 m), with an electronic scale and an exterior loading spout for trucks. It was among the last elevators built according to the traditional design, before the single ...
A grain elevator in Nebraska, June 2015. Silos are hazardous, and people are killed or injured every year in the process of filling and maintaining them. [14] The machinery used is dangerous, and workers can fall from a tower silo's ladder or work platform. Several fires have occurred over the years.
Early bucket elevators used a flat chain with small, steel buckets attached every few inches. While some elevators are still manufactured with a chain and steel buckets, most current bucket elevators use a rubber belt with plastic buckets. Pulleys several feet in diameter are used at the top and bottom. The top pulley is driven by an electric ...
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The grain elevator rises to 300 feet (91 meters). The silo was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1923–1924, with a capacity of 3.8 million bushels (134 thousand m 3 ). [ 4 ] In 2009 it had been converted from a grain elevator to a condominium tower containing 24 floors and 228 condominiums by Turner Development Group and architect ...
At 118 metres (387 ft), the Swissmill Tower is the tallest operating grain elevator in the world. The second tallest, the Schapfen Mill Tower in Ulm, Germany, is 115 metres (377 ft) tall excluding the antenna. [3] The tallest grain elevator ever constructed, the Henninger Turm, stood 120 metres (394 ft) and was demolished in 2013. [5]