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Kate Morel

Vibratory Feeders: The Helpful 5-Minute Guide for Improving Your Material Flow Process

By Kate Morel

If you’re new to vibratory equipment and vibratory feeders, you may be wondering, “How does a vibratory feeder WORK?” It’s a fair question, and one we hear a lot from people who aren’t familiar with this type of equipment! It’s a completely horizontal solid tray or tube with seemingly no moving parts. Still, the material moves steadily from one end to the other. But, HOW?

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Craig Macklin

Is Improper Densification on Your Bulk Bag or Box Filler Costing You Money?

By Craig Macklin

When considering a Bulk Bag Filler or new Bag or Box Filling system, you will inevitably be presented with the option for densification.  Most typically, densification options from the filler or system manufacturers utilize industrial vibration under the container being filled to settle, compact, or densify the material.  As discussed in one of my previous blogs, the act of vibrating material to fit more in the container can be an excellent investment to reduce container and shipping costs and make bulk bags more stable and resilient to tipping during storage or transport. 

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Derek Stake

How to Save Cash in the Long Term: Protect Your Fabricated Vibratory Equipment

By Derek Stake

Great news! You decided to invest in customized fabricated vibratory equipment. Now it’s installed, working great, and you’re no longer dealing with costly, time-consuming material flow problems.  

What’s next? 

If you have worked with equipment in the past, you know that purchasing and installation is half of the battle. Whether you’re working with a vibratory feederscreenertable, or any of our vibratory equipment options, maintenance is crucial to protect your investment long term. That’s why our team of experts is here to make this process easy! We compiled the list below so you know what to inspect, how often to inspect it, and what type of damage to look for when conducting regular equipment checks.   

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Jack Steinbuch

How to Choose the Best Isolator for Your Vibratory Equipment

By Jack Steinbuch

Here at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, we’ve committed ourselves to providing the best solution to your material flow problems for over 95 years. We like to say, sometimes “off-the-shelf” is just plain “off,” which is why our goal is to build a tailor-made solution to fit perfectly into your operation and application. Whether you need specific dimensions to fit a vibratory table into your existing process, require vibratory screen deblinding technologies, or have particular isolators you would like on your vibratory feeder; we offer design flexibility for our fabricated equipment to fit your application.

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Jack Steinbuch

How You Can Improve the Performance of Your Vibratory Screener?

By Jack Steinbuch

We can all agree that the improvement of the performance of any production equipment is a good idea.  That being said, we first need to establish the definition of the performance of a screener.  I will go with any means to improve the screening efficiency to gain as much of the desired product with the least amount of contamination.  We will make the assumption that the correct screener has been selected for the application, so now we will look for ways to improve its performance.

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Jack Steinbuch

How Hoppers Can Improve Performance of Feeders & Screeners

By Jack Steinbuch

Hoppers can aid in the performance of material handling equipment, plus provide health and safety benefits for your workforce. To begin, we will review the advantages hoppers can provide to improve the performance of feeders and screeners for bulk loading applications.

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Hopper

Okay, so what is a hopper?

Hoppers can be stationary with steeply sloping walls to allow free-flowing material to discharge onto the feed tray. Due to their steep walls, these hoppers can have a high dump height, depending on the volume. For lower dump heights and/or poor flowing materials, a vibrating hopper is a great solution. The hopper is attached to the vibrating body and the vibrators are then upsized to compensate for the increase in vibrating weight. The material is fed from the hopper onto the equipment.

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Jack Steinbuch

Reduce the Noise Level on Your Vibratory Equipment

By Jack Steinbuch

OSHA specifies that a hearing conservation program should be in place when “noise exposure is at or above 85 decibels averaged over 8 working hours, or an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA)”. This can be an issue for some vibratory equipment. However, we have selections available that will reduce noise levels which can result in many positives for your facility (OSHA).

For example, did you know investing in noise-reducing vibration can lead to an increase in productivity and overall safety? High noise levels can lead to short- and long-term physical damage including ringing ears, temporary changes in hearing, and long-term hearing damage or loss. But, less commonly known, it can also put a strain on your pocket by reducing productivity, contributing to poor communication and concentration, and can even contribute to workplace accidents by limiting your employee’s ability to understand speech (OSHA).

Since there is a wide variety of vibratory equipment, for this blog, we will focus on “brute force” vibratory equipment.  The vibrating body is directly installed on the equipment and is driven by a vibrator or dual motors, and the supporting structure is isolated from the vibrating body. Now let us look at potential ways to reduce their noise level:

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How to Adhere to Social Distancing Protocols & Promote Safety During a Pandemic Using Vibration 

By Cleveland Vibrator Team

In this pandemic, manufacturers have been called on to help make items critical to stopping the spread of, or help with the treatment of, the virus.  Namely, our nation needs an increased focus on the manufacturing of PPE, cleaning products, and ventilators.  Well, we at Cleveland Vibrator Company are a manufacturer. However, we don’t have the capability to make masks, sanitizers, or ventilators.  We are proud to be deemed essential and contributing to keeping the production and transportation of key goods intact.  But we want to be doing more to directly contribute to stopping the spread.  So, we were inspired to think of products and projects that have helped customers reduce the density of workers in a small area and could now apply to enable safe distancing on processing and production floors.  Here is a couple: 

Application #1: Bulk Food Packaging 

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Production conveyor line without the use of vibratory equipment – Cleveland Vibrator Company

In packaging bulk foods such as frozen onion rings, bagels, or meat patties, typically there is a step between the box filling station and the close and seal station to settle the product.  When the box gets filled with products, especially odd-sized items, the product tends to cone so that amount of product that by weight is supposed to fill the box, is in a mound that exceeds the height of the box.  Often, this settling is handled manually by workers standing shoulder to shoulder at the conveyor between the filling and close and seal to shake the boxes and get the products evenly settled.     Read More…
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Katy Sabo

Shaking It Out & Saving the Earth One K-Cup at a Time

By Katy Sabo

Being a mom, there are certain things in life I cannot live without. Obviously, Disney Junior and endless amount of toys make my life a lot easier but coffee gives me life. It sounds dramatic, I know, but any parent out there reading this knows exactly where I am coming from! We all have our vices and coffee is my kryptonite. I don’t discriminate when it comes to preparing java, whether it is from my favorite local roaster, my own coffee pot or that quick instant cup out of a Keurig, you can bet your bottom dollar not a drop will be left in my mug at day’s end.

Single-serve coffee cups have given a new meaning to coffee on-the-go. Even though the cost of the single-serve cup is proven to be higher overall than the standard coffee grounds, the savings in time makes it worth it for the die-hard caffeine addicts. Guilty as charged and with no shame at all, I am one of those addicts but the tree hugger side of me sticks to the old school Mr. Coffee maker every morning. My Keurig is on standby if I desperately need that afternoon pick-me-up and takes residence behind me in my office as I write this blog. I like sharing so it is “open to the public” during work hours for my fellow CVC comrades, but they provide their own goods! Coworkers know to discard their used K-cups into my recycling box but it made me wonder, how many other people think to recycle them? Read More…


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Jack Steinbuch

Can You Operate 460/3/60 Industrial Electric Vibrators at 380/3/50?

By Jack Steinbuch
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I’ve noticed increased requests for operating stock U.S. rotary electric (motor) vibrators that are wound for 460/3/60 power overseas, where the power is often 380/3/50.  The good news is, there are two options available to operate a rotary electric vibrator with this power rating.

First is the realization that you can operate a 460/3/60 vibrator using 380/3/50 power. It works due to de-rating the higher voltage 60 Hz motor since 50 Hz power rotates the eccentric weights at a lower RPM (rotations per minute) by a factor of 50/60.  For example, an 1800 RPM vibrator would run at 50/60 x 1800 = 1500 RPM.

We can also apply this logic to voltage. So, a 460-volt motor would be de-rated to 383 volts by multiplying the 60Hz voltage by the same factor of 50/60.  Therefore, due to 50Hz input, a 60Hz vibrator will accept 380 volts ± 10% without jeopardizing the motor.

Note: Due to the eccentric weights rotating at a lower RPM, the force output will experience roughly a 30% decrease.

The exact amount of reduction is the square of the factor provided above for determining the lower RPM of the vibrator due to 50Hz.

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