Typical Vibrator Markets And Applications
ASPHALT PLANTS
- Storage hoppers containing limestone and sand
- Unloading raw materials from railroad hopper cars
- Batching hoppers
BAKERY PRODUCTS
- Unloading raw materials from truck or hopper cars
- Raw material storage bins
- Hoppers containing various toppings used on biscuits, crackers, cookies, etc.
BATTERY MANUFACTURERS
- Unloading railroad hopper cars containing carbon black and lead oxide
- Storage bins for carbon black and lead oxide
BREWERIES AND DISTILLERIES
- Unload railroad hopper cars containing grits, cracked or ground grains and various other materials used in making beer and whiskey
- Unloading coal from hopper cars, if they operate their own power plant
- Storage bins containing malt, yeast, etc.
- Expelling gases from bottles before capping
- Expelling gases from beer vaults before bottling
- Conveyors moving cans, bottles, etc.
- Hoppers containing closures such as caps
- Screening mash in distilleries
CANNING AND PRESERVING FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND SEA FOODS
- Screening and sizing
- Feeding
- Packaging
- Shaking bread crumbs onto various items
- Moving cans along tracks and around curves on conveying systems
CEMENT PLANTS
- Unloading railroad hopper cars
- Storage hoppers
- Precipitators
CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS
- Unloading railroad hopper cars
- Bulk storage bins
- Blending processes
- Screening, separating and sizing
- Feeding chutes
- Finished product storage hoppers
- Packaging and compacting
- Filtering liquid chemicals (coke removal)
- Increasing flow of liquid chemicals through screens
CLAY REFRACTORY MANUFACTURERS
- Unloading hopper cars containing
- raw materials (clay, aggregates, bonding materials, etc.)
- Storage hoppers (usually a large number)
- Screening and sizing raw materials
- Packaging
- Finished product hoppers
- Blending or batching hoppers
- Molding of precast shapes
COAL YARDS Wholesale – Retail
- Unloading railroad hopper cars
- Storage hoppers
COFFEE MANUFACTURERS Granular
- Coffee storage hopper (bean and ground)
- Densification of materials during packaging
- Conveyors moving cans and lids (Instant)
- Coffee bean storage hoppers
- Conveyor to cooker
- Pulverized bean storage hopper
- Dryer
- Powdered coffee storage hopper
- Blender (several ball vibrators used)
- Finished product hopper
- Densification of product during packaging
CONCRETE PRODUCTS
- Ready-Mix, Block, Pipe, Precast Shapes, Burial Vaults, Septic Tanks, Pre-Stressed
- Unloading raw materials from hopper cars
- Storage bins containing sand, gravel, and cement
- Batching hoppers
- External form vibrators
CONFECTIONERY AND RELATED PRODUCTS
- Expelling excess air from liquid chocolate in molds
- Sifting various toppings for candy bars, etc.
- Dust collectors used to collect sugar dust and other air impurities
- Sugar often unloaded from covered hopper cars
COTTON SEED MEAL PRODUCERS
- Storage bins and hoppers
- Unloading raw materials
- Chutes and conveying systems
CRUSHED STONE
- Screening and sizing
- Storage hoppers
FLOUR MILLS
- Storage hoppers
- Unloading raw materials
- Increasing lading
FOUNDRIES
- Unloading railroad hopper cars containing sand, coke, and scrap iron
- Sand storage hoppers
- Molding machines
- Shakeout
- Match plates
- Lost-wax investments
GLASS MANUFACTURERS
- Unloading hopper cars containing soda ash, feldspar, and broken glass (cullet)
- Storage hoppers
- Unloading coal from hopper cars if they operate their own power plant
GRAIN MILL PRODUCTS
- Unloading bulk materials from hopper cars (flour, wheat middlings, meat scraps, etc.)
- Grid under hopper car if bottom-dump type
- Chute or hopper under grid
- Storage hoppers
- Packaging of finished product
INK MANUFACTURERS
- Powdered ink ingredient hoppers
- Keeping ink elements in suspension
- Screening of ink pigments (wet or dry)
INSECT POWDER MANUFACTURES
- Moving powder from hoppers
- Packaging
LEAD PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS
- Unloading hopper cars
- Lead oxide storage bins
LUMBER AND WOOD PRODUCTS
- Saw dust collecting bins
- Dust collectors
- Hard wood flooring hoppers (short strips)
- Feeding wooden matches
- Feeding clothes pins
- Wood chip bins
- Unloading hopper cars containing wood chips
MINING
- Hoppers, chutes and screens containing metal ores, coal, stone, sand, clay, etc.
- Form vibrators for concrete linings in tunnels
PAINTS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS
- Pigment hoppers
- Hoppers containing raw materials used to manufacture putty and caulking compounds.
PAPER AND ALLIED PRODUCTS
- Power house coal unloaded from hopper cars
- Hoppers containing finely ground clay
- Moving paper trimmings
- Pigment hoppers or storage hoppers
- Powdered glue hoppers
- Precipitators
PETROLEUM REFINING
- Catalyst hoppers on cracker
- Filter aid handling
PHARMACEUTICAL
- Storage hoppers containing various powdered materials
- Speed production in pill presses
PLASTIC MATERIALS
- Unloading and storing raw materials
- Plastic pellet storage hoppers
- Injection molding machines
- Extrusions from molds
- Packaging
- Screening or straining of liquid plastics
POWDERED MILK PRODUCERS
- Dryers
- Collection hoppers
- Settling or packaging
- Centrifuge
- Shakeout molds for frozen pies, popsicles, etc.
POLISH MANUFACTURERS
- Pigment hoppers
PORCELAIN
- Clay hopper
- Powder storage hoppers
- Air elimination from molds
POWER PLANTS
- Unloading coal from railroad hopper cars
- Bunkers
- Chutes handling pulverized coal
- Precipitators
PRECAST CONCRETE
- Unloading railroad hopper cars containing sand, gravel and cement
- Storage hoppers of all types
- Batching hoppers
- External vibration of precast molds of forms
PRINTING
- Paper joggers
- Collating
PULP MILLS
- Starch storage hoppers
- Wood chips
- Railroad hopper cars containing wood chips
- Salt cake storage
ROOFING MATERIAL MANUFACTURERS
- Storage hoppers containing raw materials
- Unloading hopper cars
SALT PRODUCERS
- Storage hoppers
- Unloading hopper cars
SOAP AND DETERGENT MANUFACTURERS
- Raw materials hoppers
- Unloading of materials from hopper cars
SOYBEAN MEAL
- Same as cotton seed meal
STARCH MANUFACTURERS
- Dried starch hoppers
- Packaging
STEEL MILLS
- Ore unloaded from railroad hopper cars or boats
- Rolling mills (scale handling and runout tables)
- Dust collectors
- Coke ovens and bins
- Blast furnaces
- Lining open hearth doors
- Precipitators
- Bunkers containing as many as 50 materials
SUGAR MILLS
- Storage bins containing dried sugar crystals
- Feeding same through chutes and screens
- Packaging of finished product
SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANTS
- Raw material storage hoppers
- Chutes or conveyors
- Clay and carbon black unloading
TEXTILE MILL PRODUCTS
- Dust collectors
- Flock storage hoppers
- Distribution of flocking on materials
TILE MANUFACTURERS
- Storage hoppers
- Feeding hoppers to machines
TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS
- Shredded tobacco hoppers
- Shredded tobacco conveying systems or chutes
- Snuff hoppers