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Powder and Solids Handling
News Release from: Nerak Wiese | Subject: Conveyors in every shape
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 September 2006
Vertical bucket conveyors in every shape
Most vertical bucket conveyors receive product at floor level on one side and discharge at high level from the opposite side: but sometimes, against a wall, a 'back-over-the-top' system is needed
Most vertical bucket conveyors receive product at floor level on one side and discharge at high level from the opposite side - towards the process line However, there are occasions when 'the other side' is blocked for lack of space - or a brick wall
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 2 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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When gentle, quiet handling is needed during the manufacture of soap powder, Unilever use Nerak continuous and pendulum bucket elevators to convey their products
Nerak-Wiese make a wide range of 'Z-shape' (in-line) bucket conveyors but also reversible 'C-shape' units.
These provide a 'back-over-the-top' system.
Our Polyamid (nylon) continuous bucket-belts eliminate leakage between buckets, each being connected by flexible diaphragms.
Discharged product can be collected safely by whatever is used to transfer material back over the in-feed.
At the high level platforms support the feeders or convevors reversing the flow.
This open 'food quality' vertical conveyor displays stainless steel RHS construction awaiting enclosure before despatch.
Nerak rubber block chains, steel-cored and vulcanised endless, run on smooth wheels at all bends - except the 'rollered' drive wheels, which engage rubber teeth in the underside of the chain.
With less friction on smooth wheels only small motors are needed - and no lubrication is required for rubber chains - which anyway run very, very quietly indeed.
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