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The Dotson Company Inc., Mankato, Minn., upgraded and automated its casting finishing department over its Christmas shutdown with the installation of seven vibratory vibratory /vi·bra·to·ry/ (vi´brah-tor?e) vibrating or causing vibration.

vibratory

vibrating or causing vibration; vibritile.
 machines from Conveyor Conveyor

A horizontal, inclined, declined, or vertical machine for moving or transporting bulk materials, packages, or objects in a path predetermined by the design of the device and having points of loading and discharge fixed or selective.
 Dynamics Corp., St. Peters, Mo.

The first was a water cooling Water cooling is a method of heat removal from components. As opposed to air cooling, water is used as the heat transmitter. Water cooling is commonly used for cooling internal combustion engines in automobiles and electrical generators.  conveyor, followed by a degating and sorting conveyor. Two of the conveyors are indexing shot blast charge feeders with load cells for weighing each batch of castings. Special features include dynamically balanced and isolated designs, extra heavy-duty construction and sound absorption Sound absorption

The process by which the intensity of sound is diminished by the conversion of the energy of the sound wave into heat. The absorption of sound is an important case of sound attenuation.
 linings.
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Title Annotation:North America
Publication:Modern Casting
Date:Feb 1, 2007
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