Bucket Elevators from Autopac are designed to gently transport a wide variety of products, both horizontally and vertically, without transfer points.

Capable of handling most dry, granular, free flowing products. Typical applications include: Cereals, nuts, pet food, snack foods, confections, pasta, coffee, fresh & frozen vegetables, frozen fish & poultry, tobacco, tablets, capsules, bottle caps, fasteners, coins, pelletized chemicals etc.

Features include:

• Open or enclosed design frame.
• Food grade, high impact injection molded poly-propylene plastic buckets.
• Quick release design for buckets to simplify cleaning.
• Stainless steel chain for long life.
• Heavy-duty construction in stainless steel or painted mild steel.
• UHMW chain tracks and guides.
• Torque limiter overload protection device.
• Overlapping buckets at infeed to prevent any product wastage or spillage.
• Modular construction allows for a variety of configurations.
• Wide range of options including internal CIP systems, integral feeding systems and steel or polycarbonate covers.

Hopper Feeders provide storage of bulk materials and the ability to continuously meter the product to subsequent equipment such as a bucket elevator.

These machines can be designed to include screens sections to remove unwanted materials.

Other accessories include an adjustable control gate, which ensures regulated flow from the unit, and de-clumping bars which can be installed to break up material entering the hopper.