The Difference Between Bucket-lifting and Inclined Belt Conveyor in Concrete Mixing Plants

Generally speaking, the aggregate conveying of concrete mixing stations often adopts belt conveyors or bucket lifting. These two methods have their own characteristics. This article explains the difference between the two in detail.

I. Bucket-lifting

1. Working principle

The bucket-lifting uses a brake winch and is pulled through a pulley block and a wire rope to achieve the purpose of lifting the bucket. In large and medium-sized mixing stations, double wire rope transmission is often adopted; in small mixing stations, most of them directly adopt a suspended single rope transmission or a single rope transmission guided by a pulley installed on the bucket.

2. Features

The advantages of bucket lifting are small footprint and simple structure, which are suitable for narrow construction sites.

Schematic diagram of bucket-lifting and inclined belt conveyor:

II. Inclined belt type

1. Working principle

The belts are connected into a closed loop, and they are tightened with a tensioning device. Driven by the motor, the friction between the conveyor belt and the drive roller makes the conveyor belt run continuously, thereby achieving the purpose of transporting aggregates from the loading end to the unloading end.

2. Features

The advantages of belt conveying are long conveying distance, high efficiency and low failure rate; the tensioning device is to make the conveyor belt have sufficient tension to ensure that the friction between the conveyor belt and the transmission roller prevents the conveyor belt from slipping, and at the same time, the influence of the change in the length of the conveyor belt can be adjusted; the machine cover mainly plays a role in dust and rain protection.

The bucket type and inclined belt conveyor of concrete mixing station are quite different, and each has its own scope of use. Users can choose according to their actual situation. If necessary, please call Zhengzhou Zhucheng hotline.