To provide a bucket type conveyor achieving a good conveyor service life and smooth conveyance by restricting a fall of conveyed materials such as granular materials from a bucket and avoiding the interference noise and damages due to an interference of a conveyor case and a bucket with each other.
The bucket type conveyor includes: a plurality of buckets 131 supported in both ends thereof by a transmission chain 130 vertically circulating between a driving sprocket and a driven sprocket 122 inside of a conveyor case 110 to house conveyed materials such as granular materials, which are thrown and dropped from a throw-in port 111 of the conveyor case 110, for conveyance; and a throw-in port front side sprocket 151 and a throw-in port rear side sprocket 152 stretching the transmission chain 130 between them to lift the bucket 131 to approach the throw-in port 111 of the conveyor case 110 are provided in front and rear positions in the conveying direction, riding over the throw-in port 111 inside of the conveyor case 110.
Nobuo Fujimoto
Masayuki Miyake