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Vibratory Feeders: The Helpful 5-Minute Guide for Improving Your Material Flow Process

By Kate Morel

Jan 31

If you’re new to vibratory equipment and vibratory feeders, you may be wondering, “How does a vibratory feeder WORK?” It’s a fair question, and one we hear a lot from people who aren’t familiar with this type of equipment! It’s a completely horizontal solid tray or tube with seemingly no moving parts. Still, the material moves steadily from one end to the other. But, HOW?

Kate Morel

Kate joined The Cleveland Vibrator Company in 2020 with experience in Application, Product, and Sales Engineering for industrial equipment and component manufacturers. With a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, she’s now in our Sales Department and specializes in finding custom technical solutions to unique applications.

When she’s not shaking things up in the world of industrial vibration, Kate self-describes as a giant geek who enjoys reading science fiction books, finding projects to over-engineer in her household, and spending time with her husband and sons. You can find Kate outside hiking or horseback riding in her free time, followed by the occasional craft cider or beer!

With expertise in both engineering and application-specific topics, keep an eye out for this vibration expert to provide some great insight into all things #VibrationEducation!

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How to Save Cash in the Long Term: Protect Your Fabricated Vibratory Equipment

By Derek Stake

Jun 04

Great news! You decided to invest in customized fabricated vibratory equipment. Now it’s installed, working great, and you’re no longer dealing with costly, time-consuming material flow problems.

What’s next?

If you have worked with equipment in the past, you know that purchasing and installation is half of the battle. Whether you’re working with a vibratory feeder, screener, table, or any of our vibratory equipment options, maintenance is crucial to protect your investment long term. That’s why our team of experts is here to make this process easy! We compiled the list below so you know what to inspect, how often to inspect it, and what type of damage to look for when conducting regular equipment checks.  

Derek Stake

Joining The Cleveland Vibrator Company in February 2019, Derek Stake is now the Director of Engineering & Operations. As a Cleveland State University graduate, Derek provides extensive knowledge with a BA of Physics, BS of Mechanical Engineering, and MS of Mechanical Engineering. This CrossFit enthusiast offers years of engineering and operations expertise from his experience as Operations Manager at a local forging company. When not immersed in the world of vibration, you can find this Cleveland sports fan doing yard work and spending time with his wife and two kids!

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How to Choose the Best Isolator for Your Vibratory Equipment

How to Choose the Best Isolator for Your Vibratory Equipment

By Jack Steinbuch

Jan 27

Here at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, we’ve committed ourselves to providing the best solution to your material flow problems for over 95 years. We like to say, sometimes “off-the-shelf” is just plain “off,” which is why our goal is to build a tailor-made solution to fit perfectly into your operation and application. Whether you need specific dimensions to fit a vibratory table into your existing process, require vibratory screen deblinding technologies, or have particular isolators you would like on your vibratory feeder; we offer design flexibility for our fabricated equipment to fit your application.

Jack Steinbuch

Jack Steinbuch has been with The Cleveland Vibrator Company for over 36 years accumulatively. He has previous experience in the manufacturing industry as a Senior Application Engineer and has worn many hats on our team in sales and managerial capacities. Now, he’s in the position of General Sales Manager. With a BSCE from The University of Toledo, he is an expert in the realm of sizing vibratory screeners and feeders, and sizing vibratory drives for tables and other vibratory equipment. Understanding that customer service is crucial, Jack believes it is important to provide the proper product for every application, even if it happens to not be supplied by The Cleveland Vibrator Company.

In his off-hours, you can find Jack spending time with his family and playing with his grandchildren. He loves sports; both watching and playing, and is an avid golfer and a league bowler during the winter. He will be retiring at the end of September 2021 and hopes to spend his winters vacationing in Florida.

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Does Industrial Vibrator Jargon Get You Down? The Vibration Experts Got You Covered!

By Mike Stratis

Dec 08

When it comes to terminology and lingo within the vibration industry, many times there are multiple names for the same piece of equipment. We will review what those are and explain what they mean.

Bin or hopper vibrators have many subcategories of vibrator types, just within this single product line itself. Let’s break it down.

Air vibrator or pneumatic vibrators can be the following:

Piston type
Ball type
Turbine type

Mike Stratis

Mike joined The Cleveland Vibrator Company team in 2013 with prior experience in manufacturing sales with a Cleveland company in the tool and die industry. Now, he’s the Director of Sales and specializes in “making stuff that shakes stuff”.

When he’s not immersed in the world of industrial vibration, as rare as that might be, Mike keeps busy *not finishing in last place* in Fantasy Football and enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids. It’s always golf season for Mike, and he’s been known to 3 putt his way around any course and can roll tee balls in rain or shine. You can find him tailgating in the Muni Lot before Browns games or supporting local breweries.

As an avid provider of #VibrationEducation, he offers this free bit of advice, “Not all vibration is the same. Force and frequency do matter!” However, there is a 2% upcharge for all Michigan and Steeler’s fans.

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How Hoppers Can Improve Performance of Feeders & Screeners

How Hoppers Can Improve Performance of Feeders & Screeners

By Jack Steinbuch

Jul 28

Hoppers can aid in the performance of material handling equipment, plus provide health and safety benefits for your workforce. To begin, we will review the advantages hoppers can provide to improve the performance of feeders and screeners for bulk loading applications.

RFM electromechanical hopper feeder Side loading — Hopper

Okay, so what is a hopper?

Hoppers can be stationary with steeply sloping walls to allow free-flowing material to discharge onto the feed tray. Due to their steep walls, these hoppers can have a high dump height, depending on the volume. For lower dump heights and/or poor flowing materials, a vibrating hopper is a great solution. The hopper is attached to the vibrating body and the vibrators are then upsized to compensate for the increase in vibrating weight. The material is fed from the hopper onto the equipment.

Jack Steinbuch

Jack Steinbuch has been with The Cleveland Vibrator Company for over 36 years accumulatively. He has previous experience in the manufacturing industry as a Senior Application Engineer and has worn many hats on our team in sales and managerial capacities. Now, he’s in the position of General Sales Manager. With a BSCE from The University of Toledo, he is an expert in the realm of sizing vibratory screeners and feeders, and sizing vibratory drives for tables and other vibratory equipment. Understanding that customer service is crucial, Jack believes it is important to provide the proper product for every application, even if it happens to not be supplied by The Cleveland Vibrator Company.

In his off-hours, you can find Jack spending time with his family and playing with his grandchildren. He loves sports; both watching and playing, and is an avid golfer and a league bowler during the winter. He will be retiring at the end of September 2021 and hopes to spend his winters vacationing in Florida.

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How to Adhere to Social Distancing Protocols & Promote Safety During a Pandemic Using Vibration 

By Cleveland Vibrator Team

May 22

In this pandemic, manufacturers have been called on to help make items critical to stopping the spread of, or help with the treatment of, the virus. Namely, our nation needs an increased focus on the manufacturing of PPE, cleaning products, and ventilators. Well, we at Cleveland Vibrator Company are a manufacturer. However, we don’t have the capability to make masks, sanitizers, or ventilators. We are proud to be deemed essential and contributing to keeping the production and transportation of key goods intact. But we want to be doing more to directly contribute to stopping the spread. So, we were inspired to think of products and projects that have helped customers reduce the density of workers in a small area and could now apply to enable safe distancing on processing and production floors. Here is a couple:

Application #1: Bulk Food Packaging 

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Production conveyor line without the use of vibratory equipment – Cleveland Vibrator Company

In packaging bulk foods such as frozen onion rings, bagels, or meat patties, typically there is a step between the box filling station and the close and seal station to settle the product. When the box gets filled with products, especially odd-sized items, the product tends to cone so that amount of product that by weight is supposed to fill the box, is in a mound that exceeds the height of the box. Often, this settling is handled manually by workers standing shoulder to shoulder at the conveyor between the filling and close and seal to shake the boxes and get the products evenly settled.   Read More…
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What Is Fabricated Equipment Design Flexibility?

What Is Fabricated Equipment Design Flexibility?

By CVC Team

Sep 28

Typically flexibility is a good thing, both in business and athletics as well as life in general. For Cleveland Vibrator, flexibility often means having a number of choices available to solve a bulk material problem. Our line of pneumatic vibrators ranges from the small VM-25 piston vibrator to the huge 1900 single impact unit and about everything in between to include ball vibrators, turbine vibrators, air cushion piston vibrators with friction reducing coatings for long life, to a complete line of pneumatic foundry vibrators. If the best solution involves electric vibrators, Cleveland Vibrator has wide range of rotary electric vibrators available with operating frequencies between 900 and 3600 rpms with force outputs from 30 to over 40,000 lbf! That’s some flexibility for sure.

What is fabricated equipment design flexibility?

Designing Fabricated Vibratory Equipment that is built-to-spec requires a large amount of unique options best suited to fit the application and process requirements. Design flexibility is key for a successful install of vibratory equipment into an existent process. Read More…
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How to Design and Size a Vibratory Feeder Conveyor Based on Application Requirements

How to Design and Size a Vibratory Feeder Conveyor Based on Application Requirements

By CVC Team

Jun 06

vibratory feeder, vibratory conveyor, rendering vibratory feeder, pneumatic vibratory feeder, pneumatic feeder, air-powered feeder, industrial vibration, industrial vibrator — Figure 1. Air Powered Vibratory Feeder Conveyor

Along with our other vibratory equipment, vibratory feeders are great problem solvers. Feeders are well-known for their ability to move material from point A to point B effectively. However, a well-designed vibratory feeder offers flexibility to the end-user and increased safety and efficiency in the process.

Feeders can range from small base mounted CF-A, pneumatic powered feeders moving small quantities of dry bulk material in a controlled manner to a much larger base, as well as a cable-supported EMF, electromechanical feeder conveying literally tons of material an hour. This breadth of design capabilities allows our vibratory feeders to move material effectively in various industries for many different applications.

For example, we have incorporated vibratory feeders into the processes of these materials and more:

Almonds
Crushed Limestone
Shelled Corn
Powdered Metal
Metal Billets

Various Pipe Fittings
Scrap Brass and Bronze
Crushed and Shredded Automobiles
Hot Dross

We work with a variety of industries feeding an endless variety of materials!

Installing Vibratory Aids on Equipment: What Are My Options?

By CVC Team

Apr 06

It seems to me that most applications start with a problem to solve; improve a process, simplify an operation, increase yield or throughput, or remove a bottleneck. This problem could be as simple as placing the appropriate size pneumatic piston vibrator on the side of a hopper. It could entail getting the right air-cushioned vibrator such as the 1200 VMSAC or maybe a single impacting SI vibrator along with the matching SMP mounting channel and controls. Or the problem could be broader with concerns regarding the process or task to be accomplished and the design envelope into which the solution must fit and then interface with other equipment.

Regardless of the problem, options and choices are always good.

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Uras Techno Rotary Electric Vibrators Placed Below the Table Deck

Often with equipment one of the first things that comes up in initial discussions is the design height or discharge height of the unit. With vibratory feeders (EMF) and screeners (EMS) there’s always a concern about the product discharge height, as the equipment is often feeding material downstream to other devices. One of the options that impact the design and therefore the height of the unit is the location of the vibrators. Typically on vibratory feeders and screeners, the default Read More…

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3 Variables to Consider That Influence Material Flow from Vibratory Hopper Feeders

3 Variables to Consider That Influence Material Flow from Vibratory Hopper Feeders

By CVC Team

Jan 10

When it comes to a vibratory hopper feeder and end-user requirements, The Cleveland Vibrator Company has worked with customers that span the range from simply wanting to increase material flow from point A to point B to more precise applications sending bulk material to downstream processes.

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Customer Example

For example, we had the opportunity to visit a local customer and assist him with setting up a hopper feeder unit. Their goal was to place a dry material into plastic trays while they moved on a conveyor under the feeder. Precise metering of the dry material into the trays is critical to this customer’s success.

It seemed this would be an excellent opportunity to discuss material flow and the impacting parameters. As mentioned, the equipment provided by The Cleveland Vibrator Company is a vibrator hopper feeder. The hopper is a stationary non-vibrating hopper with an adjustable slide gate. The vibratory feeder utilizes two rotary electric vibrators. A variable frequency drive (VFD) with a dynamic brake resistor controls the vibrators.

Okay, so what is a hopper?

For example, we have incorporated vibratory feeders into the processes of these materials and more:

Customer Example

Solutions in Motion!

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