Feeders

Eriez offers a complete line of vibratory equipment to convey, screen and feed materials in quantities ranging from a few spoonfuls to tons per hour. Eriez' Technical Center can develop custom-designed vibratory and screening equipment to precisely meet the needs of any application.

Schenck AccuRate manufactures feeders for use in the food, pharmaceutical, plastic and chemical industries. They produce model designs for  extruder manufacturers and compounders in the plastic industry; volumetric feeders with their Tuf-Flex™ seamless vinyl hopper for moving material; their vibratory feeder has the ability to  volumetrically or gravimetrically meter abrasives, friables and even stranded fiberglass, while the PureFeed® AI-300 is designed for low feed rate applications.

Accu-Tech Automation designs and manufactures vibratory feeders to handle parts handling and factory automation needs, including medical device assembly in clean room environments. They can custom manufacture an inline or straight electromagnetic vibrator system. Their customized system and equipment capabilities also range from a single vibratory feeder bowl to an entire factory assembly line for plant automation.

Bradman Lake Group manufactures a comprehensive range of fully automated feeding systems that includes the high speed Inline Phase Feeder Unit offering up to 1200 pieces of regular and irregular product per minute, and a modular construction. Another design is the Product Orientation feeder available in different widths and lengths, and number of base and side belts. Their Shuttle Phase Feeder work similarly to the Inline Phase, transferring product to the inline infeed of the flow wrapping machine.

Carrier manufactures vibrating feeders with designs that include high temperature for handling material up to 2000 degrees F, tuned, two-mass, natural frequency, direct-drive and two-directional conveying. Their natural frequency drive system design can reach capacities of up to 3,000 tons per hour. While Carriersingle mass twin drivevibrating feeder capacities range up to 1,000 tons per hour.

California Vibratory Feeders, Inc specializes in producing automated equipment that orients parts by vibratory feeder bowls or centrifugal feeders. They custom design their automated equipment to customer requirements, and serve industries including medical & pharmaceutical, cosmetic, aerospace, electronics, irrigation, hardware and more.

CDS Manufacturing designs and builds vibratory parts feeder systems including bowl feeder systems, and linear vibratory parts feeder systems capable of handling a broad range of parts. CDS vibratory bowl feeder systems range from from 6" to 36" in diameter, fully automatic base mounted and table top systems.  Their linear vibratory feeders are also available as table top and machine base mounted systems, with applications in cosmetic, automotive and plastic industries for example.

The Cleveland Vibrator Co. is a manufacturer of industrial vibrators and vibratory equipment. They have a wide range of light, medium, and heavy duty vibratory feeders for controlling the flow of bulk materials. This includes a pneumatic powered model (with reciprocating air cushioned piston), and model CF-E, electromagnetic drives available for light and medium duty applications. Model EMF utilizes dual rotary electric vibrator drives which are available in four speeds for medium to heavy duty applications. These drives all produce a linear motion for fully adjustable volumetric flow.

The Custom Feeder Company builds part feeding equipment, from single vibratory bowls to multi-component systems. They are capable of building fully automated inline feeders, simple and complex units.

Dura Feed, Inc. designs and manufactures vibratory part feeder systems. This includes assembly feeders, sorting feeders, screw feeders, cap feeders, and feeders for a large variety of plastic, metal, and foam parts. Industries served include pharmaceutical, electrical, automotive and packaging.

Fortville Feeders custom builds parts feeding equipment and systems. Their feed system builds include vibratory, centrifugal and tracking -whether motor driven and/or custom vibratory inline track, bulk storage hoppers. Vibratory feed systems are customized to customer specifications for the output rate and orientation. While centrifugal feed systems are equipped with Variable Speed D.C. Motor Drive for high feed rate applications; available in sizes 10" to 60".

Greenfield Feeders, Inc. builds feeder systems, from feeder bowls and belt conveyors to in-line feeders and blow feeding systems. GFI offers two standard drive configurations for their in-line feeders, lengths starting from 6" up to customer requirement.

Jeffrey Rader builds large-scale vibrating feeders for coal, minerals, chemicals and other bulk materials. Jeffrey vibrating feeder models include electromagnetic and electromechanical vibratory feeders for coal, chemicals, blending, etc.; twin-motor and super-duty vibrating feeders for high-impact applications, wet or sticky material; with vibrating conveyors for moving wood waste, aggregates, chemicals, for example.

JVI is a manufacturer of application specific vibratory material handling equipment including vibratory feeders. Their electromechanical and electromagnetic linear trough and tube feeders are built in a single mass design for low maintenance. Their tube feeders are available with electromechanical or electromagnetic drives, and available with similar options as JVI pan feeders, lengths up to 25 feet. The TITAN is a multiple vibratory feeder discharge system ideal for use under truck or railcar dump stations. JVI also builds bi-directioinal feeders, dosing feeders and volumetric feeders.

K-Tron engineers feeding systems and pneumatic conveying solutions for automating material handling in process industries. With a wide variety of models and design options they offer feeder systems for liquid loss-in-weight feeding, screw-less low rate additive feeding, and more. They build a variety of gravimetric feeder models with designs that include loss-in-weight, weigh belt feeder, multi-stream ratio control, and compact models. Besides gravimetric and volumetric feeders K-Tron designs and builds gain-in-weight batching systems, and specialty feeders for unique applications.

Parts Feeders, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells vibratory parts handling equipment and their components. Their feeding systems range from cascade design, straight wall or outside tooled bowl, to systems that are operator assisted as part of the assembly line. Their high speed nail feeders feature standard models to handle round or notch head nails and screws with smooth, spiral, or ring shanks, and specialty options for feeding "D" head nails. Other feeders include the HS300 High Speed Pin Feeder that will feed simple pins at up to 300 inches per minute. 

Performance Feeders, Inc. is a custom builder of parts handling systems, vibratory and centrifugal feeders, vibratory tracks, bulk elevators, bulk storage hoppers, placement devices and escapement mechanisms. Performance Feeders, Inc. is also an authorized dealer for Hoppmann centrifugal feeders. Designs include step feeder systems, and vibratory spring feeding systems too. Feeder applications include munition, medical and automotive industries.

Pineberry Manufacturing offers feeders that can be used for Tipping, Collating, Batching, Wrapping, Cartoning and Bundling in industries such as material handling, packaging, fulfillment, mailing and the graphic arts. Their low-maintenance, servo-controlled feeders feature solid plate construction and 24-hour duty cycles.

Rodix provides vibratory feeder controls, inline track drives, drive bases, and bulk storage hoppers for the parts feeding and automation industry. Able to meet any special design requirement to provide special packaging, features, and quantities for many applications.