Applications
6.3.4 Continuous Bucket Unloader Chain Large conveyance: For conveyance of iron, stone, coal, and rock salt Application Example Continuous Bucket Unloader Chain is used to remove large quantities of material, like iron, stone, coal, or rock salt from a ship’s cargo hold (Figure 6.19). This application originally used a cable-driven bucket on a crane rather than chains. However, there were several problems with the original design—contamination of the environment by conveyed material, difficulty with automation, inability to scoop material in hard-to-reach areas, and short working life of wire rope. Because of these problems, chain has become the design of choice in current applications.
Figure 6.19 Continuous Bucket Unloader Chain
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