Purpose
This Application Bulletin provides information about Scraper Chain Conveyors, which can transfer granular or aggregate product at full rate over a distance that may include a level change while protecting the transported material from the
weather. Scraper chain conveyors can be used for cooling or dehydrating product during transfer (through air or water circulation), mixing and measuring, bulk handling for storage, process supplying, extracting, distributing at several points,
picking up product, and lifting decanted or washed product.

Examples of Use
• Process supplying
• Evacuating waste
• Extracting beneath hopper
• Handling ash in incineration plants
• Handling coal in mines
• Caning sugar
• Bundling old paper in paper mills
• Dehydrating rubber
• Recovering sludge in water treatment stations
• Transferring wood chips in incineration plants
• Loading fertilizer
 

Names
Machines often used with the scraper chain conveyor include the feed conveyor, pick-up or extraction conveyor, distribution scraper conveyor (extraction register), cooling conveyor, and soaking tank screen chain. The scraper chain conveyor is also called the chain conveyor, pallet chain conveyor, redler, scraper conveyor, bulk conveyor, chain elevator, and scraper elevator.
 

Related Machines
• Cable conveyor
• Screw conveyor
• Conveyor belt

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