item logistics

there is a problem with hoppers that is they can only go down and the only way to make items go up is either water or mine carts but what if we have a shoot that brings them up powered by steam and had 2 variant's one having glass the other no glass and costing like a hopper but with copper and a bucket filled with water and a bucket filled with lava (or just a magma block) the glass one costing the shoot in the middle covered with glass blocks