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High Performance Bucket Elevators

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High Performance Bucket Elevators

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Overview
Rexnord High Performance Bucket Elevators are engineered for critical applications across various industries such as cement, lime, fertilizer, and more. Rexnord ensures single-source control by manufacturing all critical components, providing comprehensive service support.

Types of Bucket Elevators
Rexnord offers chain and belt bucket elevators. Chain elevators are ideal for high lifts and large capacities due to their predictable life, while belt elevators can handle even higher lifts.

Innovations and Improvements
Rexnord has pioneered innovations like the first bucket elevator with a single strand of high-quality steel chain. Recent advancements include the Rexnord Engineered Class 900 Series Chains, enhancing fatigue strength by 30%, and maintenance-free belt splices.

Engineering and Support
Rexnord provides extensive support, including application assistance, problem-solving, and maintenance seminars. Their engineers offer recommendations based on data analysis and on-site inspections.

Features and Benefits
Rexnord bucket elevators are robust, easy to maintain, and designed for longevity. Features include steel split upper head sections, segmental rim traction wheels, and patented fatigue-resistant buckets.

Service and Maintenance
Rexnord offers after-sale services like chain wear life analysis and maintenance recommendations, ensuring maximum productivity and minimal downtime.

Technical Advancements
Rexnord's chain manufacturing techniques enhance fatigue strength and wear life. The 900 Series Elevator Chains feature improved performance with larger components and advanced processes.

Conclusion
Rexnord bucket elevators are reliable and efficient for demanding environments, with a focus on innovation and customer support.

Overview of Rexnord Belt Bucket Elevators
Rexnord's belt bucket elevators incorporate advanced technology for materials like alumina and wood chips, achieving lifts over 100 meters.

Benefits
- High conveying capacities at speeds up to 115 meters per minute.
- Capable of higher lifts than chain elevators.
- Superior bucket fastening with large diameter fasteners.
- Various belt materials for specific applications.
- Patented belt splice for easy installation.
- Metal lagging on head pulley for enhanced traction.

Features
- Steel split upper head section for maintenance access.
- Welded steel head pulley with taper lock hubs.
- Structural integrity with 6 mm steel plate lower head section.
- Custom-designed belting for specific applications.
- Patented fatigue-resistant steel buckets.
- Counterweighted gravity take-up for automatic belt tension.
- Flanged inlet opening to reduce spillage.
- Removable clean-out panels for quick access.
- Dust-tight access doors for pulley removal.
- Externally mounted bearing assembly for longevity.
- Spiral-type foot pulley for self-cleaning.
- Generous clearance between casing, belt, and buckets.
- Multiple access doors for inspection and maintenance.
- Motion and level sensors for operational alerts.

Additional Components
- Various bucket styles in steel, cast iron, and polymeric materials.
- Bearings with split housing and spherical roller bearing pillow blocks.
- Couplings for easy assembly and reduced maintenance.
- Segmental-rim sprockets and traction wheels for easy installation.

Optional Accessories
- Head platforms and ladders for maintenance access.
- Hoist frames for drive and motor maintenance.
- Linkmaster chain assembly tool for efficient chain assembly.
- Inching drive for maintenance inspections.
- Huck fasteners for secure bucket fastening.

Customer Service
Rexnord is dedicated to providing high-quality products and services, focusing on reducing maintenance costs and preventing downtime. They offer a comprehensive portfolio of power transmission and conveying components globally.
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Rexnord® High Performance Bucket Elevators Rexnord Conveying Equipment

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Steel Cord Belt Bucket Elevator Rexnord® Bucket Elevators — more than 4,000 Supplied Worldwide: Handling High Lifts, Large Capacities, Tough Applications. For more than 100 years, Rexnord has been a primary source for power transmission and conveying products for industries around the globe. Thousands of installations, decades of service and still going strong. Rexnord® High Performance Bucket Elevators are designed specifi cally for critical applications handling tough materials such as found in cement, lime, fertilizer, chemical, steel, coal, aluminum and forest products industries. It’s important...

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Rexnord chain elevators offer benefi ts associated with the consistency and quality of Rexnord chain which gives the user a very predictable and measurable life. Rexnord has supplied chain elevators with lifts in excess of 70 meters (230 feet) and belt elevators with lifts in excess of 100 meters (328 feet). Capacities over 1,000 metric tons per hour are possible with Rex Bucket Elevators. A Rexnord professional from one of our worldwide sales offi ces can discuss both types of elevators with you as well as help with your applications requirements. Or if you prefer, mail or fax your application...

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Steel Cord Belt Bucket Elevator From Rexnord, you get more than just a quotation Long before the bucket elevator arrives, Rexnord’s fi eld sales force and engineers offer in-depth involvement. Some or all of the following considerations are determined early-on to make a project successful: Management goals and expectations including funding for the project, timing, etc. Material composition: sizes and types of material, fl ow rates, temperature, etc. Operating characteristics: volume, capacities, how the elevator will be fed. In an existing plant, are there any component preferences such as sizes...

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Resilient Seal Nobody Knows Chain Better than Rexnord Since 1892, we’ve made more chain than anyone in the world. Since 1905, Rexnord has supplied chain bucket elevators to many industries. Over the years, Rexnord has concentrated on continually improving chain manufacturing techniques to provide the following benefi ts by way of a “balanced design”: Greatest fatigue strength available for maximum chain performance. Induction hardening and deep case carburizing give Rexnord chains the hardest wear surfaces, greatest case depths and consistency of chain manufacture and quality for the best wear...

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Steel Cord Belt Bucket Elevator Rexnord® Chain Elevators are known for dependable and effi cient operation Rexnord chain type bucket elevators are selected most often for bucket elevator applications. Why? Because in a properly designed and operated Rexnord bucket elevator equipped with Rexnord elevator chains, the user can achieve a very predictable and measurable wear life for the elevator chain without concern over catastrophic breakage. A simple chain elongation measurement procedure showing chain wear limits is contained in the Rexnord Service Manual supplied with each elevator. By routinely...

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(where permitted) for fast access. Flanged bottom with fl at steel bottom plate for complete load bearing on foundation. Large double-hinged access doors with quick opening latches (where permitted) are available as options at various intermediate section locations to permit easy inspection and maintenance at various fl oor levels. Rexnord counterweighted internal gravity take-up assembly complete with Rexnord cast Ni-hard bearing blocks and sleeves. The bearings and sleeves require no lubrication and no periodic maintenance. A special heat treatment of these bearings and sleeves to 550 BHN minimum,...

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Steel Cord Belt Bucket Elevator Rexnord® Belt Elevators Incorporate the Latest Technology Research and development, fi eld testing and installation experience have allowed Rexnord to produce a belt bucket elevator that incorporates concepts and components that refl ect state-of-the-art technology. Rexnord belt elevators are currently handling such products as alumina, coke, foundry sand, raw meal, wood chips and other materials where physical characteristics are best suited to a belt type elevator. Rexnord belt elevators have been supplied with lifts in excess of 100 meters (328 feet). The Benefi...

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Intermediate casing sections of 5mm (3/.6 in.) steel sheet on twin leg casings, 4mm (10 gauge) on single leg designs with deep beaded crimps for stiffness. Selfsupporting single leg and twin leg designs are available. Lateral supports recommended to adjoining structures at approximately 6 meters (20 feet) intervals. On twin leg every 18 meters (60 feet). Belting specifi cally designed and manufactured under Rexnord specifi cations is selected for individual applications. Rexnord patented fatigue resistant fabricated and reinforced steel elevator buckets with optional 400 BHN abrasion resistant...

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Steel Cord Belt Bucket Elevator Rexnord® and Link-Belt® components provide high quality, single source service. Segmental rim traction wheels and sprockets Traction wheel rim segments easily installed, simplifying replacement without disassembling body, chain or shaft assemblies. Heavy-duty solid steel rim segments are factory fastened to the body using Huck fasteners, offering positive rim/ fastener retention without concern of loosening during operation. Sprocket rim segments made to same wear-resistant specifi cations as traction wheels, deep carburized and induction hardened to 60 RC. Traction...

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Falk® gear drives: FalkTM Drive One® with Swing Base Assembly: Most fl exible design, handles widest assortment of motor / coupling combinations Falk Drive One Inching Drive Package: Designed for low maintenance, long life, and safety FalkTM Quadrive® shaft mounted drive: Large sump capacity eliminates the need for cooling devices on most applications. Standard FalkTM TA Taper® bushing provides greater fl exibility to suit inch or metric driven shafts. TA TAper bushings are the easisest-on / easisest-off solution in the industry. Optional Rexnord accessories Standard Head Platforms and ladders...

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