Vibratory screening equipment comes in all shapes and sizes. While some are rectangular or round they all pretty much accomplish the same principle which is removing oversize particles from the desired product size. There are a number of variables that can affect the performance of the screens used on your screening equipment. In this blog, I will discuss a number of ways to optimize your vibratory screening equipment. Read More…
Well, this sad news was released recently: “Worker Engulfed in Rail Car…” which made me revisit my prior post to dig into data some more. Once again, I went to the data set provided by NPR Buried in Grain. This time I looked only for “rail car” in the incidents and found two in the data set. While the two incidents in the data set both correspond to workers trying to clear clogs while unloading the rail car hoppers, this new incident does not. Its cause was related to the worker slipping and falling while loading the car. Either way, these incidents are terrible, tragic and preventable with proper safety precautions and training. Rail car vibrators are one tool to help prevent bin or hopper entry during unloading. I encourage anyone following these continued incidents to look into resources available from organizations such as the Grain Handling Safety Coalition.
Like a lot of companies we talk a lot about customer service and going the extra mile when particular situations arise. Last week we had just one of those situations involving one of our larger RE 80-6 Rotary Electric Vibrators. The customer was in Texas and had a vibrator go down on a large de-watering screener. Fortunately, they had followed our suggestion and purchased a spare backup drive. They now wanted to order a replacement for that one but we had just recently sold all of our stock in that size to one customer. The drives are used on a critical piece of production equipment and could ill afford having a second drive go down.
With no spare available, we looked at up-sizing but mounting bolt centers would be a problem. We looked at different RPM motors with same bolt centers but after consulting with our equipment “GURU” Read More…
Vaccum Mount Series explains features and what sets Cleveland Vibrator above the rest – See it in action here!
Most everyone over, say, 25, knows that time seems to escape you way faster than you’d like. That certainly happens here at Cleveland Vibrator – you turn around and another year or two is gone and you wonder what the heck happen to it. I really felt that way here recently as we just finished up work on a new product. Sales has been pushing for a “Vacuum Mounted Vibrator Series” for a while now and I’m happy to say we’ve just completed work on the mount and controls for our 1200 VMSAC, air -cushioned piston vibrator and the smaller 1125 VMSAC.
I’ve been told that my last blog regarding the importance of wall thickness when utilizing external industrial vibrators for bins or hoppers seems to have struck a chord. I plan to expand on that blog by providing some recommendations for sizing external vibrators since I merely referred to a vibrator with proper force previously – and you just may have been afraid to ask!
Essentially, we need to apply enough external force to the wall of the bin or hopper to assist gravity in getting material to flow. While I previously stressed properly flexing of the wall to get the material to flow, we still need to determine the correct amount of force to apply based on the configuration of the hopper as well as the bulk density and flowability of the material. Read More…
The Cleveland Vibrator Company takes great pride in our Cleveland Quality products made with the highest finesse and expertise. Each Vibrator is individually crafted to fit every customer’s needs across a plethora of industries which gives us the ultimate diversity of our product line as well. The quality of our different vibrators, i.e. Air Piston Vibrators, Electromagnetic, Turbines, & Rotary Electrics, are superior to your run-of-the-mill vibrators due in large part to gaining such a in-depth understanding of the the many industries we serve through years of experience. Let’s be real, a company who has been in business since 1923 is bound to be more remarkable in quality than most, otherwise why would we still be in business? Once our products leave our shop, they are put to the test in the field – they are subjected to the tough manufacturing life where they operate day-in and day-out at high capacities, but with this something amazing happens to prove that Cleveland Vibrators are the best… Read More…
Over the years I have handled hundreds of sales calls. Some are looking for new equipment while others are looking to improve upon an existing application. The majority of the customers who are not looking for new equipment want to increase their “yield” or “productivity” of the final product they are trying to produce. My first question when addressing their issue is what is the percentage of “good” product are they losing in the oversize material in their screener? While some have a good idea of this amount others have no idea what the correlation between yield and oversize has to do with each other. Read More…
My first introduction to the productive work that can be accomplished with vibration was probably by my dad. Back in the day our family would on occasion sit down for some TV and popcorn. Sorry, no movies on demand, no DVDs or even VHS, I’m not sure how we made it through those dark days! This was pre-microwave popcorn and my mom would pop it the “old school” way, with a heavy pan and oil. I think you can still see this technique demonstrated at a museum or two. Traditionally the popcorn was served up in a large spun aluminum bowl. My dad had the rather annoying habit of shaking the bowl which would vibrate the un-popped kernels, “old maids,” down to the bottom of the bowl which created a rather loud noise as they hit the aluminum. More than once I asked him what the heck he was doing, he’d say he was “bringing the big popcorn to the top”. When I asked how that worked his pat response was – “physics”!! Read More…
One of our lesser known products known to be made by The Cleveland Vibrator Company is our Pipe Bracket Assemblies. As you drive down our highway systems you will see many manufacturing companies with any number of pipes in several different sizes transporting many types of materials such as sand, coal, many types of powders, dust collectors etc. Our pipe bracket assemblies are designed to assist in the flow of materials through those pipes. The design allows for the assembly to be moved up and down the pipe depending on the location of a material flow problem. We currently manufacture pipe bracket assemblies Read More…
