HiLoad Bucket Elevator
The Guttridge HiLoad Bucket Elevator range is a well-established, high efficiency design aimed at the heavy duty grain storage, animal feed milling and general industrial markets. Examples from this popular range operate in many storage and processing plants across the world, handling many different types of bulk materials.
Customised HiLoad Bucket Elevators
We customise our HiLoad Bucket Elevators in many different ways to suit customer requirements. Our head and boot designs are optimised to suit modern, high efficiency bucket systems. However, a detailed understanding of how materials flow also allows us to tailor our machines to suit many different and new materials. Some standard features and common options are listed below.
Access Platform and Ladder*
Features:
- A robust heavy duty design constructed from heavy gauge sections
- Flow forge flooring, tubular handrails
- Clamp fixings for easy on-site fitting
- Flat packed for assembly on site
Options:
- Vertical access ladders with safety hoops
- Intermediate rest platforms
- Alternative layouts and ladder access configurations
Note. Illustration is indicative only
ATEX*
Features:
- ATEX Certified machinery is available for applications which handle potentially explosive products
- Fully certified ATEX Zones 20 internally, and Zones 21 and 22 both external and internal
Belting Choices
Features:
- Standard general purpose SBR belting
Options:
- Oil and fat resistant belts
- Heat resistant belts
- Belts suitable for food and drink industries
Buckets
Features:
- Standard high efficiency mild steel pressed
Options:
- Stainless steel pressed
- Plastic
- Bottomless
- Reinforced with wear bands
- Special purpose fabricated
Chain and Bucket Elevators*
The Guttridge HiLoad Bucket Elevator range is a well-established, high efficiency design aimed at the heavy duty grain storage, animal feed milling and general industrial markets.
Construction and Finish
Features:
- Painted finish, as standard cream RAL1015. Other colours available
- Fabricated from mild steel
Options:
- Stainless steel
- Galvanised
- Special paint finishing
Drive Options
Features:
- IP55 electric motor with Vee-belt drive to shaft-mounted gearbox
Options:
- Geared motor and chain drive
- Shaft mounted geared motor
- External backstop
Elevator Boot
Features:
- Boot pulley secured to shaft with taper-lock fitting, prevents sideways movement
- Generous Cleaning Access
- Heavy duty curved, close tolerance boot radius plate
Elevator Head
Features:
- Large access panel above outlet (pictured)
- Easy cleaning thanks to generously sized maintenance access doors
- Heavy duty curved sweep plate for high efficiency & durability
- Full sized, high efficiency outlet
- Adjustable flexible outlet throat plate
- Split top hood for easy access to head pulley, useful where headroom is limited (HiLoad 230HL and above only)
Elevator Legging
Features:
- Heavy duty pressed steel riveted construction, jig assembled
- Rolled steel angle end flanges
- Supplied in 3m lengths as standard with shorter made up sections to customer requirements
- Generously sized inspection doors provide easy access to the belt and buckets for maintenance purposes
Explosion Relief Panels
Features:
- ATEX certified explosion relief panel (pictured top)
- non-ATEX standard rupture membrane (pictured centre)
- non-ATEX hinged flap explosion relief with microswitch (pictured bottom)
Options:
- Weather protection hood (pictured centre)
Head and Boot Pulleys
Features:
- Shaft, bearings and pulley removable in one piece
- Standard mild steel fabricated with crowned face
Options:
- Stainless steel fabricated
- Rubber lagged
- Coned Cage Type
Optical Sensors*
Features:
- Under speed rotation sensor (pictured) - monitors belt slippage
- Belt alignment sensor - monitors belt tracking
- Bearing sensors - provides early warning of bearing failure
- Electronic controller to monitor sensor signals
Self Clean Elevator Boot*
The Guttridge HiLoad Bucket Elevator range is a well-established, high efficiency design aimed at the heavy duty grain storage, animal feed milling and general industrial markets.
* Optional Equipment
Hi Load Elevator Material Suitability
Guttridge HiLoad Bucket Elevators are in operation in many different market sectors and countries handling a huge variety of bulk solids materials, for example -
- Animal Feeds
- Grains & Seeds
- Fertilizer
- Salt, Sugar
- Tea
- Biomass
- Coal
- Fly Ash
- Glass
- Waste, Recycling
- Sand, Aggregates, Asphalt
- Limestone and other minerals
When specifying a bucket elevator there are many factors which need to be taken into account, therefore technical advice must be sought before ordering. We have experience with many different types of materials and can specify machines to handle up to 1000 tph, so if you have any queries please contact us.
Visit our Guttridge Industrial Range page for information on the full range of Guttridge conveyors, elevators, dischargers and ancillaries.
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