Over 60 Years Experience in Bucket Elevator Design & Supply!

FEECO’s name is known world wide in the design and manufacture of bucket elevators. Since 1951, FEECO has developed extensive experience in bulk material handling equipment manufacturing that is backed by the strength of our engineering and design departments and our manufacturing capabilities.

FEECO offers a variety of designs and sizes of bucket elevators that can handle materials that range from dry dusty powders such as fly ash to heavy materials such as iron ore pellets. Generally, bucket elevators are not suited for wet, sticky materials, or materials that are stringy or tends to mat or agglomerate. Not sure if your material can be handled in an elevator? Contact us, will be more than happy to help you. Bucket elevators can be ordered in a number of configurations, including centrifugal belt, centrifugal chain, continuous belt, continuous single chain and continuous double chain models.

Centrifugal Bucket Elevators

The centrifugal style elevator operates at higher speeds to throw the material by centrifugal action out of the buckets into the discharge spout as the buckets pass over the head pulley/sprocket. The buckets are spaced in wider intervals to prevent discharge interference from the proceeding bucket and to assure maximum fill of the buckets at the boot end while moving at higher speed.

Continuous Bucket Elevators

Continuous bucket elevators are designed to handle friable, fragile materials to minimize product degradation or damage or to handle sluggish or abrasive material. They are also used to convey light free-flowing matter where aeration of the material must be avoided. The continuous style elevator operates at a lower speed to minimize breakage of friable materials. The buckets are closely spaced on the belt or chain to allow the material to flow over the backside of the proceeding bucket, whose extended sides form a chute to guide the material into the discharge spout.

FEECO Conveyor Systems (pdf)
FEECO Handbook: Section 04 – Conveyors (pdf)
FEECO Lab Capabilities (pdf)

• Potash Bucket Elevators
• Petroleum Coke Radial Stacker
• Animal Feeds Granulation

Bucket Elevator Photos

Talk to a FEECO Expert