bucket conveyor

noun

Machinery.

a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.

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The gravity or tilting bucket conveyor can be used as a combined elevator and conveyor.

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Another well-known appliance of this type is the pan bucket conveyor.

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One important difference between an ordinary gravity bucket conveyor and this apparatus is that the buckets are here rigidly connected to the supporting wheels.

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Light flashed; a bucket conveyor began crashingly to dump loads of coal; and an alarm gong began to pound.

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Sand was taken from the stream bed and delivered to the work by bucket conveyor.

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