Application Bulletin

Scraper Chain Conveyor

Material Handling Machines
Operation
Purpose A continuous chain with transverse scrapers moves through a closed
This Application Bulletin provides information rectangular section trough over a horizontal, sloping, vertical, or mixed
route. The lower length of the chain conveys the product along the bottom
about Scraper Chain Conveyors, which can
of the trough.
transfer granular or aggregate product at full rate
over a distance that may include a level change
Return roller
while protecting the transported material from the or gear
weather. Scraper chain conveyors can be used for Material entry
several entries
cooling or dehydrating product during transfer possible
(through air or water circulation), mixing and Self-supporting sealed
measuring, bulk handling for storage, process and modular box.

supplying, extracting, distributing at several points, Scraper

chain
picking up product, and lifting decanted or washed
Upper length Case or
product. trough
or box

Examples of Use
Lower length under material
• Process supplying
• Evacuating waste Material outlet
Scraper, chain cleaner
• Extracting beneath hopper
Motor-reducer output
• Handling ash in incineration plants
Gear (pinion)
• Handling coal in mines
• Caning sugar
• Bundling old paper in paper mills Scraper Chain Conveyor
• Dehydrating rubber
Types
• Recovering sludge in water treatment stations
• Central chain conveyor
• Transferring wood chips in incineration plants
• Double chain conveyor
• Loading fertilizer
• Parallel or multiple chain conveyor
Names • Cable conveyor
Machines often used with the scraper chain • T-scraper conveyor for horizontal handling
conveyor include the feed conveyor, pick-up or • T or U scrapter conveyor for handling product on inclined surfaces
extraction conveyor, distribution scraper conveyor • U or O
(extraction register), cooling conveyor, and
• Double O (OO)
soaking tank screen chain. The scraper chain
conveyor is also called the chain conveyor, pallet • Triple O (OOO) scraper conveyor
chain conveyor, redler, scraper conveyor, bulk • Scraper elevator
conveyor, chain elevator, and scraper elevator. • Chain conveyor tight against dust, water, gas, internal depression, or
overpressure
Related Machines • Fully-open bottom conveyor
• Cable conveyor • Single or double trough conveyor
• Screw conveyor • Reversible conveyor
• Conveyor belt
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Scraper Chain Conveyor

Material Handling Machines (continued)

Downstream Machines
• Silo Rotation detection
(Chain breakage) D2
• Hopper
• Screw
• Furnace Detection of
open inspection trap D3
• Mixer
• Sieve
• Screen
• Crusher Detection of maximum
• Granulator plate position of chain tension
adjusting device D4
• Mill

Upstream Machines
Detection of chain
• Silo conveyor jamming D1
• Hopper
• Furnace
• Cleaner Stand-Alone Machine
• Separator
• Purifier
• Mixer Chain
Hopper Conveyor
• Sieve
• Screen
• Lump breaker
Mixer
Situation in Environment
The user may expose the chain conveyor to rain, Conveyor
sleet, or snow; operate it at high temperatures,
such as ember routing at 800° C; and convey dusty Process cabinet E Distribution D
products such as cereals. This electrical box
or cabinet
equipment is a process sub-assembly
incorporated in a common cabinet. Except for the Hopper Chain
cabinet seal, ventilation, and (if necessary)
heating, no recommendations are necessary. Process control
and display
Bucket elevator electrical equipment operating station E Mixer Conveyor
alone must comply with strict environmental (if necessary)

requirements. Elevating some products, such as

sugar or wheat, may generate an explosive Machine Located in Process
atmosphere. In such situations, provide
appropriate equipment. Washdown may be
required.

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