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It’s Halloween… Tales from a Small Town Boy Will Have You Shakin’ in Your Boots

By CVC Team

With Halloween approaching fast, it has reminded me that over the years Cleveland Vibrator has sold several vibrators to entertainment enterprises for use on their Halloween projects. One of these projects, I was told, was for a Haunted Mansion Halloween Party for a pretty well known publication here in the U.S. (*Mansion may be a pretty big clue here). They used two 1125 VMS Air Piston Vibrators mounted below the floor to surprise folks as they walk on them. We even built an “Earthquake Machine” for the Natural History Museum here in Cleveland, Ohio to give visitors the experience of what an earthquake may feel like. They even covered the drive motors so you could actually sit on them. This holiday also brought back an experience I had at a burial vault company visit just a few years past. But, before I tell this story would like to explain what led up to my reaction to this visit.

I think that our beliefs and fears about Halloween go back to what we have learned or were told as kids. This for sure applies to my background as a youngin’. I was raised in Southern Ohio on a small farm that had no phone service until I was twelve or thirteen. Read More…


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Katy Sabo

Sand Isn’t Just For Beaches…

By Katy Sabo

The sun is shining, the ocean waves are crashing down, and I am enjoying a book on Hilton Head Island… OK. SNAP BACK TO REALITY. Living in Northeast Ohio, one could imagine our winters are long and summers fly by quicker than we can blink. Beach daydreaming is a favorite pastime of mine but also inspired me to right a little blurb about a visit made to a customer right here in Cleveland who deals with that soft every day of the year. The visit gave me a little taste of that soft sand between my toes, literally…

No, I wasn’t lounging in my beach chair, but instead hiking up on top of sand filled silos and learning all about what exactly sand is used for in day-to-day life. One of our fantastic customers invited myself and Glen Roberts to come out and see our Rotary Electric Motors in use on their chutes they use to keep bulk sand flowing through it’s heating, cooling and separating process. If you have read any of my previous blogs, you would know I am a complete sucker for history and find it fascinating to learn all about different processes and how they have evolved over time. This facility we visited was no exception. This plant has been located right off Lake Erie since the 1940’s and has original sand at the bottom of its silos since it’s opening day still present today.

Our trip was quite eye opening and once again, I was completely awestruck over the idea that such a simple material I have played in since I was a kid, played a major role in creating everyday items. We learned there are three different “grades” of sand all serving specific end product use. Read More…


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Unique Vibrator Installations & 5 Ways To Repair Damaged Walls

By CVC Team

Since 1923, we have been a part of many vibrator installations on hoppers and bins. One of our major markets is supplying industrial vibrators to the feed and grain industry. I have spent time talking to and visiting folks who ensure their facility operates efficiently with minimal downtime. During those visits, I’ve come across many unique techniques to mount a vibrator on a bin or hopper—specifically, the installation and types of channels and mounting brackets.

Where should you install your industrial vibrator?

Even if the installation doesn’t fit the standard mounting practices, our installation manuals are still helpful. In most cases, we suggest mounting the vibrators on the sloped section of the hopper or bin about one-third of the way up from the discharge. If using two vibrators, we recommend spacing them 180 degrees apart. If using three, we recommend 120 degrees apart. Staggering the vibrators will maximize the effect on the bin walls to assist in material flow.

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Katy Sabo

The 8 Steps of Ceramics Processing and Industrial Vibration

By Katy Sabo

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”Marilyn vos Savant

You know those ceramic dishes your mom uses to serve Sunday dinner? What if I told you that Industrial Vibration played a part in making those dishes possible?

The Ceramics Industry covers a wide range of products from traditional ceramics, such as pottery and chinaware, to technical ceramics for chemical, mechanical or thermal applications. I will provide you with a brief overview of the manufacturing process of traditional ceramics. I will help you see where Industrial Vibration fits into the processes as well, so brace yourself; here we go!

What exactly is Ceramics?

Ceramics can be defined as a class of inorganic, nonmetallic solids that are subjected to high temperatures for manufacturing use. I spoke about the term “traditional ceramics” which will be the focus of this post. These are ceramic products that are produced from unrefined clay, and combinations of refined clay and powdered or granulated non-plastic minerals. This includes pottery, stoneware, chinaware, porcelain, etc. To create these end products, the ceramic matter needs to go through the traditional manufacturing process, which goes as follows:

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Mike Stratis

When Two Vibrators are Better than One

By Mike Stratis

Hello, world! First-time blogger here, so go easy on me. If you are reading this, I’d like to say thank you. Hopefully, the next few minutes help you choose and install the optimal number of industrial vibrators for your application, and give you plenty of #vibrationeducation!

In my 7+ years with The Cleveland Vibrator Company, I’ve been lucky enough to learn from some of the most experienced in the industry. Glen Roberts has learned and thus forgotten, more than I’ll ever know about pneumatic industrial vibrators. Jack Steinbuch can size vibratory equipment in his sleep. David Strong can design anything these two toss on his desk (or in his inbox). They have more than twice my age in combined years at The Cleveland Vibrator Company between the three of them.

That’s a lot of vibrators!

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Grain Bin Safety Week: How Rescue Tubes and Proper Training Will Save Lives

By CVC Team

Did you know that the pressure of engulfing grain is so powerful, that it takes more than 1,500 pounds of force to free a body submerged under less than two feet of grain?

I must admit that although Cleveland Vibrator has supplied Industrial Vibrators and Equipment to the grain and feed industry for many decades, I was not aware until I took the Asmark Safety Course how many folks are trapped, injured or killed inside grain silos and feed mills. A lot of the grain safety training applies to just about all industries and mirrors the manufacturing industry, which I have  worked in and been associated for over 45 years. Two major things I picked up from this training were:

  1. Tag out and lock out is huge anytime you need to work on a piece of equipment, or when you are in an area that normally has running equipment.
  2. Checking your tools to make sure they are in good working order which includes inspection of the guards and making sure you have no frayed electrical cords. Generally, this is just good work ethics  in any work environment. Read More…


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One Size Fits All – Part Deux!

By CVC Team

I enjoy movies and unfortunately for my wife, I’m not a particularly discerning movie viewer.  I can usually find some redeeming value in most movies, particularly if I get the DVD from the library, the dollar per laugh ratio is pretty hard to beat!  I have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for spoofs, even today I still get a kick out of movies such as “Hot Shots, Part Deux.”  More than once I’ve felt like the character Dexter, the guy they sent the men in to rescue and then sent the men in to rescue the men they sent in to rescue Dexter!  Sometimes I have to exclaim “you don’t understand.  I can’t walk…..they’ve tied my shoelaces together.”  Oh well, such is life.

In a previous Blog I talked about “One Size fits all….Not!” and how Cleveland Vibrator ‘tailors’ our line of fabricated equipment to meet the specific needs of our customers.  We certainly continued to do that last year.  Looking back at 2014, my engineering drawing log shows that we generated 3d models and associated drawings for twenty different flat deck vibratory tables, FA, configurations.  The smallest vibratory table was a FA-1818 RE 220-6(2) (18 inch square deck size) to the largest being a FA-6060 (60 inch square deck size).  In addition to the FA style units we also generated six different grid top vibratory tables, GT, which interface with a customer’s gravity or power roller section.  One of these Read More…
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It’s High Noon Partner With Our Pistol Grip Vibrator

By CVC Team

Over the course of 90+ years, we have developed several types of portable air piston vibrators. Some have long since ridden off into the sunset, and some are still used today.

The Pistol Grip Vibrator

The Pistol Grip vibrator was one of those handheld units from the late ’60s to early ’70s that was successfully developed mainly because a customer said, “I need this and if you build it we will buy it.” Cleveland Vibrator did build it, and they did buy it. However, it turned out to be one of those limited edition models with a higher price tag, and folks used other more standard units for similar applications. This model was used for a precast concrete form application, and the customers would walk around and place the vibrator against the form at selected spots to settle the concrete and remove air bubbles which would generate a better-finished product. The main feature of this unit was the ability to carry it in your hand and not have it vibrate until you squeezed the trigger. Plus, the handle had a rubber grip helping to isolate the vibration force from the operator.

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When A Vibratory Set Up Duplicates the Sledgehammer Motion of Five Workers at the Same Time…

By CVC Team

I have said for years to my “better half”, you can never have enough “toys” especially as it pertains to tools and for sure in my case golf clubs. This can be said about a recent spray dryer hopper application. We normally mount one industrial vibrator to the side of a hopper or bin and sometimes two by placing the second vibrator 180 degrees apart from the first vibrator installation area. In rare cases, we will actually mount three vibrators 120 degrees apart. The spray dryer customer wanted to mount five of our 1125 SI Single Impact Air Knockers on one hopper to dislodge sticky material. Not only did they want to mount five vibrators, but they also wanted them to impact at the same time. So, the folks of Cleveland Vibrator got creative.  Read More…
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Craig Macklin

And Now for Something Completely Different…

By Craig Macklin

Frequent readers of this blog (don’t be scared to raise your hand and comment, by the way…) may remember a post about unique applications of industrial vibrators in 2013.  Well, this week we had a new inquiry from a drop-by guest that is in the running for 2014.

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