The VMR model is one of those unique mergers of old and new technologies. The current concept was developed by combining our older MI units from the 1950s and 60s, the first generation Vibra-Might design from the 70s and 80s and our design features of the 90s. The VMR unit features a totally enclosed one-piece body design that operates without the dependency of a starter spring and will start in all mounting arrangements. This is coupled with our revolutionary Read More…
In designing and manufacturing custom vibratory equipment, I see customer inquiries for a myriad of potential applications to solve production challenges or improve production rates. Recently, a producer of decorative stones presented us with a challenge. The stones are produced from wet cast concrete mix molds. These molds need to be vibrated to de-aerate (remove air bubbles) and consolidate the concrete in the molds. This was being done manually on a vibrating table, typically one mold at a time. They wanted to automate their production to reduce their labor time. They had invested in production equipment that would quickly fill the molds, but had yet to come up with a method to take advantage of that automation by vibrating each mold at the same rate.
We concluded that our Read More…
Back in the 1960s, Cleveland Vibrator Company (CVC) started to move away from the acceptable industry standard of the time and started to manufacture vibrators with tapped exhaust ports. Today a large part of our vibrators, including 100% of our Vibra-Might family group, have threaded exhaust ports. The primary reason for the threaded exhaust ports is to install our port protector/muffler in the port. The port protector has two primary functions. Read More…
From my perspective industrial applications for vibrators and vibratory equipment tend to fall into three broad categories. The first and largest of these groups is the “standard” application, whether for individual vibrators or for equipment. Similar problems have been seen before and solved with “off the shelf products”. In the world of individual vibrators, these standard applications tend to involve flow aids for stationary hoppers and bins where both pneumatic and electric vibrators have proven over the years to be viable solutions. Appropriate vibrators can be selected or recommended based on the size of the hopper, weight of the material, hopper design (to include shape and wall thickness) and nature of the material.
My second broad group is somewhat smaller than the “standard” group and involves more customer interaction and discussion to arrive upon a suitable solution. These types of challenges would fall into what I’d call the “cooperative” group. Read More…
As it happens, I am rather new to this industry. My background is primarily in the world of theoretical products and service of Enterprise Software systems and implementation consulting services. Two years ago, the uses of industrial vibrators were pretty foreign to me and anyone that I would happen to correspond with on a day-to-day basis. I, like most people in the world, didn’t really know what a critical role industrial vibration plays in our economy. In coming to Cleveland Vibrator Company, I did know that we made a real, tangible, product that you could put your hand on and easily identify the differences in quality that make ours better than others in the market. I was attracted to that. In my first year of education on our market, though, my view of the value of our product offering rapidly expanded.
As the Sales Manager here at HK Technologies, I run across many unique and challenging screening applications on a weekly basis. While this is my first post and I have a lot of interesting applications to discuss, I want to begin with a recent application where a customer was using ultrasonic sieving to screen a high-value ceramic powder used in the electronics industry. The screen mesh was fairly coarse – 80 mesh. The ceramic powder was agglomerating and forming hard nodules of ceramic material from the current supplier’s ultrasonic system. The customer could not tolerate these hard nodules contaminating the final product. They approached us for a solution.
Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 – HK Tranducer – no screen contact
