Grain elevator

A grain elevator, also called a pneumatic elevator, served in ports or railway stations as a transshipment facility for loading and unloading cargo ships or goods trains with grain.

This promoted pneumatic grain and other bulk goods from the cargo hold of a freighter. There were floating grain elevators, which promoted the conveyed directly to an inland waterway vessel or a barge and installed on land Grain Elevator, which promoted the conveyed into a silo. The flow rates were 150 to 250 tons per hour. Besides grain, other suitable charges such as linseed, soybean, sunflower, groundnuts, copra, oil nuts and carob were deleted with grain elevators. In 1956 there were in Hamburg about 15 of these floating transshipment facilities.

Stationary grain elevators to railways and ports can still be found often in Northern Germany and in the North American prairie.