Abstract
Bucket elevators are efficient machines to transport the granular materials in the vertical direction or along the inclined planes. Traditional bucket elevators have strong limitations in the discharging position and discharging mode. So it has important practical significance to design and develop a chain bucket elevator with multipoint discharge which can realize the horizontal and vertical simultaneous continuous transportation. The bucket is the load bearing component of the bucket elevators. This article presents the method of solving the maximum contour of the bucket, which is the combination of analytic method and graphical method. The constraint conditions and the mathematical model of the interference analysis are obtained by the interference analysis at the inflection points, and the boundary contour of the bucket at the inflection points is obtained by solving the constraint equation with MATLAB. And the boundary contour of the bucket at the discharging position is obtained by the graphical method. Therefore, the maximum contour of the bucket is determined, which can ensure not only that there is no interference between the adjacent buckets in the whole process but also that the granular materials can be fully discharged and the maximum loading capacity of the buckets can be achieved.
Highlights
Bucket elevators are the common industrial devices to transport the granular materials in the vertical direction or along the inclined planes and used throughout granular materials’ handling industries, for example, food storage, processing, feed, port traffic, and other industries
It is generally realized that the material is transported in the horizontal direction by the belt conveyor or the scraper conveyor,[3,4,5] and by bucket elevator achieve material conveying in the vertical direction
A traditional material conveying system contains a variety of mechanical equipments, and the position of conveying equipment is fixed, which cannot meet the complex and
Summary
Bucket elevators are the common industrial devices to transport the granular materials in the vertical direction or along the inclined planes and used throughout granular materials’ handling industries, for example, food storage, processing, feed, port traffic, and other industries. Keywords Interference analysis, bucket elevator, inflection point, boundary contour, MATLAB
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