BUCKET ELEVATOR Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: industrial transport. SUBSTANCE: bucket elevator has upper drive and lower tension drums over which endless closed traction belt is passed. Belt is provided with rigidly connected buckets. Drums with belt are enclosed in housing consisting of head with discharge branch pipe, boot with charging branch pipe and middle sections. Elevator has closed endless flexible belt for directing load into discharge branch pipe and ring disks with flanges secured on end faces of upper drive drum over which endless closed flexible belt is passed to cover upper part of head. Belt is installed without clearance relative to buckets. EFFECT: increased capacity of bucket elevator, reduced damage to seeds. 2 dwg