Conveyance Solutions by Continental products

Centrifugal elevators are used to handle fine free flowing materials. The buckets travel at speeds high enough to discharge material by centrifugal force as they pass around the head sprocket/pulley. Casings can be made from carbon steel, stainless steel and other harder materials as required by the application.

Continuous elevators are used to handle heavy materials with large lumps. The buckets travel at lower speeds to allow for minimum material degradation and reduced wear on equipment. The main advantages of a continuous elevator over a centrifugal elevator are the large lump size capacity and the gentle manner in which the material is conveyed. In both chain and belt versions of the continuous elevator the backside of a bucket helps form the discharge chute for the following bucket.