material flow solutions

How Can We Automate the Packing of Our Product In Containers?

By Jack Steinbuch

Apr 21

There are a wide variety of vibrating tables available to pack material in containers. Flat vibrating tables or packers are commonly used for this application where an empty container is manually placed on the table, filling begins, at some point during the filling process the vibrating table is started to begin packing and finally you end the filling cycle and turn off the table. While this manual operation fits the needs of many operators, they may not be aware that there are alternatives that allow a more automated operation. Read More…

Jack Steinbuch

Jack Steinbuch retired in 2021 following a decades-long career with The Cleveland Vibrator Company, where he served as a Sales Engineer for more than 36 cumulative years. His background also includes extensive experience in the manufacturing industry as a Senior Application Engineer, and throughout his tenure with our team he contributed in both sales and managerial roles. Prior to his retirement, he held the position of General Sales Manager.

A graduate of The University of Toledo with a BSCE, Jack is highly regarded for his expertise in sizing vibratory screeners, feeders, and vibratory drives for tables and other equipment. Known for his dedication to customer service, he has always emphasized the importance of recommending the right solution for every application — even when that solution did not come from The Cleveland Vibrator Company.

Outside of work, Jack enjoys spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. An avid sports fan and participant, he enjoys golf and spent many winters as a league bowler. With his retirement planned for the end of September 2021, Jack looked forward to spending future winters vacationing in Florida.

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Vibration Education and Safety: How SI Series Help Prevent Shoulder & Back Injuries

By CVC Team

Apr 08

We were contacted by a company that performs a special process on large diameter copper bars. Part of the process is seating the copper bars in place to do the process. This is currently accomplished by hitting the bars with an 8 to 12 pound sledge hammer. Due to the taxing and power-filled motion of the hammering process, it was causing extensive shoulder and back injuries on their employees. The situation was dire enough that it required a call to action and a solution, so they contacted The Cleveland Vibrator for a vibrator recommendation. Read More…

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Fine Mesh Screening Problem? Optimize Your Vibratory Screening Equipment Solution

Fine Mesh Screening Problem? Optimize Your Vibratory Screening Equipment Solution

By Cleveland Vibrator Team

Mar 31

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…

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Cleveland Vibrator Company & Customer Service: If You “Talk the Talk”, You Must “Walk the Walk”

By CVC Team

Mar 17

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…

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Cleveland Vibrator Co. Showcases New Vacuum Mounted Vibrator Series

Cleveland Vibrator Co. Showcases New Vacuum Mounted Vibrator Series

By CVC Team

Mar 07

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.

Are You Afraid to Ask About Sizing Industrial Vibrators for Bins or Hoppers?

By Jack Steinbuch

Mar 03

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…

Jack Steinbuch

Jack Steinbuch retired in 2021 following a decades-long career with The Cleveland Vibrator Company, where he served as a Sales Engineer for more than 36 cumulative years. His background also includes extensive experience in the manufacturing industry as a Senior Application Engineer, and throughout his tenure with our team he contributed in both sales and managerial roles. Prior to his retirement, he held the position of General Sales Manager.

A graduate of The University of Toledo with a BSCE, Jack is highly regarded for his expertise in sizing vibratory screeners, feeders, and vibratory drives for tables and other equipment. Known for his dedication to customer service, he has always emphasized the importance of recommending the right solution for every application — even when that solution did not come from The Cleveland Vibrator Company.

Outside of work, Jack enjoys spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren. An avid sports fan and participant, he enjoys golf and spent many winters as a league bowler. With his retirement planned for the end of September 2021, Jack looked forward to spending future winters vacationing in Florida.

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Innovative Solutions to Industrial Fine Mesh Screening Challenges from Cleveland Vibrator Co.

Innovative Solutions to Industrial Fine Mesh Screening Challenges from Cleveland Vibrator Co.

By Cleveland Vibrator Team

Feb 10

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…

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Clean Your Pipes! CVC & Pipe Bracket Assemblies Solutions

By CVC Team

Jan 20

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…

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Hopper Vibration – Bend, But Don’t Break!

Hopper Vibration – Bend, But Don’t Break!

By Jack Steinbuch

Jan 06

“Bend, but don’t break” is an old football saying that refers to a defense that “allows” the opposing team to move the ball down the field on offense, but ultimately prevents them from scoring touchdowns. While it’s not a perfect analogy, you could apply this statement to recommending externally mounted vibrators to aid in the flow of material down hoppers, bins, and chutes without damaging the mounting surface.

Our challenge is to recommend a vibrator that will flex (bend) the wall or surface where it’s mounted to aid in the flow of material but not break it. Some people do not use certain external vibrators as they’ve had the bad experience of cracking the mounting surface. It’s easy to blame that style of vibrator, or vibrators in general, and look for some other method to get their material to flow. Here, I will explain how vibrators should be utilized without damaging the mounting surface.

Vibration & Grain Safety Training

By CVC Team

Jan 06

I recently finished a two-day safe grain handling course at the Asmark Institute in Bloomington, Illinois. This is part of our continuing efforts to learn more about grain, feed mill, and silo safety in our on-going efforts to assist in these areas. Cleveland Vibrator has manufactured and supplied vibrators to these industries for several decades but has never, until now, involved itself in the safety part of this industry beyond supplying vibrators as flow aides.

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