Patent ID: 7698839
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: E02F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An elevator bucket for an elevator-type material conveyor system, the elevator bucket being formed of a polymer material and having a backwall, opposed sidewalls, and an integral front wall delimited by a lip, the bucket having a working volume determined at least in part by the height of the front wall, wherein the thickness of said front wall is increased and tapers to a lesser thickness from said lip toward a further part of said front wall, said front wall is joined to said sidewall by arcuate corner parts, the elevator bucket further comprises a wear indicator placed for indicating visually a reduction in the working volume due to a wearing of the front wall that reduces the height of the wall and lowers the lip, and wherein the wear indicator extends around at least a part of one of said arcuate corner parts and to a section of said front wall below a portion of the lip.