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It’s High Noon Partner With Our Pistol Grip Vibrator

By CVC Team

Dec 15

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.

The Importance of Product Testing for Fine Mesh Screening

By Jeff Hochadel

Dec 08

Many times a potential customer will call our office or email asking for a quote and delivery on a specific type of equipment. Our standard response involves asking the customer a series of questions ranging from what the product is, estimated throughput rates, percentage of plus and minus screen size, and others. We typically also ask for an application data sheet to be filled out. All this helps remove the guesswork out of equipment sizing. Sometimes the customer thinks he knows what is required based on past experience or what someone else has told him he needs. While many times these assumptions may be correct, we want to make sure what we sell the customer will ultimately meet or exceed their expectations. While filling out forms and asking questions definitely assists in proper screener selection, I have found asking for a sample of the product for in house testing eliminates all the guesswork out of the equipment selection process. If time permits and the customer requires we can also send out a demonstration model for a short in-house testing period.

Running tests on a sample or sending out a demonstration model will ultimately remove all the guesswork out of equipment selection. Read More…

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It’s a Three Dimensional World Out There

By CVC Team

Dec 01

A year or two ago I got an email invitation to attend a meeting of mechanical engineers sponsored by Machine Design Magazine. I guess their idea was to bring together a group of engineers to discuss the relevancy of their magazine and see where they could be more effective in reaching engineers. During the discussion, one of the engineers mentioned that his company was still working in a 2d CAD environment and they were hesitant to move to a 3d CAD package. I was more than a bit shocked. Cleveland Vibrator Company started evaluating and using 3d CAD packages back in 1998 or there about. I can’t imagine working with a 2d package after working with 3d solid models.

Our first step into the world of 3d solid modeling was with Autodesk’s Mechanical Desktop. After a couple of years of working with Mechanical Desktop we looked at changing over to Inventor, Solidworks or Solid Edge. At the time, our engineering team felt that Solid Edge had a better sheet metal package, which better supported our Fabricated Equipment product line, so we decided to go with them for our 3d solid modeling software. Since that decision, we’ve continued with the Solid Edge product and have also added one seat of their Finite Element Analysis Read More…

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Cleveland Vibrator has a lot of things to be thankful for…

By Katy Sabo

Nov 24

In light of this week’s Thanksgiving Holiday, I thought I would take a minute to share a few thoughts with our loyal movers and shakers.

Personally, this past year has given me many blessings to be thankful for (i.e. graduating from Akron, getting engaged and moving into the next chapter of life) but I truly believe that being given the opportunity to work for Cleveland Vibrator was the beginning of the “good vibe train” life has thrown my way. Over the span of one short year, I have gained so much from coming to work day in and day out here at Cleveland Vibrator. One can only appreciate the great perks of working for a smaller company simply by experiencing it for themselves. So here’s a few things we are thankful for… Read More…

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Vibratory Sizing: Rocky Balboa Inspiration & Railcar Vibrators

By CVC Team

Nov 17

Railcar unloading can be a difficult task depending contributing factors such as the type of material, size, moisture content, if the material is frozen, or if it was compacted during shipment, just to name a few. Add to the fact the weather could change from transportation to delivery point, this creates an interesting sizing situation. At Cleveland Vibrator, we use our 1350 VMRR Vibrator as the “one size fits all” unit for rail car unloading. We realize that at times, our valued customers may require a vibrator or vibrators with a little more or less force and may even require a unit that operates at a lower noise level. Cleveland Vibrator understands our customer needs may have changed from what was used ten, twenty or thirty years ago. Tried and true methods of that era may need to be changed to accommodate new rail car designs.

In the past, most rail cars were steel and fitted with dove tailed female brackets either at the factory or in the field to accept the male wedge type railcar vibrators. This is still one of the preferred way to vibrate material out of rail cars even today. Read More…

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Industrial Vibration Now & Then: Portable Pneumatics

By Katy Sabo

Nov 10

One of the perks about working for The Cleveland Vibrator Company when you’re a history geek like me, is digging through the archives and learning the rich history of your product development over the past century. Recently, I was able to get my hands on case histories dating back to the 1960s and came across one that highlighted our first-ever “Portable Air Piston Vibrator.” Nearly 50 years ago, Cleveland Vibrator assisted a precast concrete manufacturer when they wished to improve the consolidation and finish of their product using vibration. We specially designed a 1-1/4″ Piston Vibrator and attached it to a pistol-grip handle. The handle had been equipped with a special thumb grip trigger that activated the vibration and this piece of vibratory equipment weighed only 10 lbs. This light-weight and portable option gave the manufacturer the power to apply vibration to problem-child areas within their production, leaving the application locations completely limitless. How much did this unit cost? For the vibrator, 5′ hose and lubricator, this manufacturer paid $80. Read More…

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Using Vibration to Reduce Material Cost and Increase Profit Margins in the Plastics Industry

By Katy Sabo

Nov 04

Industrial vibration can be found in multiple areas of plastics processing and can help reduce the costs of materials and increase profit margins substantially. With the use of equipment such as vibratory screeners, companies are able to reuse regrind and efficiently sort out the usable material from that of which needs to be discarded. There are other ways that industrial vibration factors into the processing of plastic products, read on to learn more.

What exactly is “Regrind?” Regrind is a term that seems self-explanatory and if you guessed that the it applies to mechanically reduced plastic components/products, you guessed right. Much of the plastic waste used in this process usually comes from a pre-consumer source, for instance processed scraps or even unused thermoplastic materials from injection molding. Read More…

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

By CVC Team

Oct 27

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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What You Need To Know About Screening Media: Woven Wire Cloth, Part I.

By Jack Steinbuch

Oct 20

There are a wide variety of screening media that can be installed in vibratory screeners. Our challenge is to select which type would be best suited for your application. You can refer back to my blog: Importance of screening data from May 2013 to review the technical data that would best assist us in making screener recommendations. Some of this data would also be appropriate for selecting screening media. This blog is the first in a series that will be dedicated to typical screening media that are installed in Vibratory Screeners with their advantages and disadvantages so you can be in a better position to assist us in the selection process.

Woven Wire Cloth

This is the most common and widely used screening media for many applications including scalping, sizing and dewatering. Woven wire cloth is typically designated as space screen (clear openings) or square mesh. Space screen is the inside dimensions of the opening which should be further designated with a specific wire diameter. Please note that the wire diameter doesn’t affect the screen opening Read More…

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Guilty Until Proven Innocent… Why Cleveland Vibrator’s Repair Services Prove to be Top Notch

By CVC Team

Oct 13

When you supply a product that is the main drive source for a particular piece of equipment it, usually takes the first blame when the equipment doesn’t function properly. Such was the case back in July when one of our larger O.E.M. customers (Original Equipment Manufacturers) contacted us on a drive failure problem experienced by one of their customers who mine gold in Canada. The Rotary Electric Drives were mounted on a dewatering screener and per the end user customer they have experienced failure of 4 to 5 vibrator motors since May and normally they last for years. With Cleveland Vibrator on the nameplate of the vibrators, it was understandable the customer would look to Cleveland Vibrator for answers plus bear blame for their problems.

They contacted the O.E.M. who in turn called us to asked if we would call them directly. We followed up the same day and discovered with our initial conversation the motors were over 12 years old. This is a long time for a vibratory motor to last in this type of operation. Read More…

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