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title: "Shaker baghouse"
description: "A shaker baghouse cleans its filter bags by mechanically shaking the bag-support frame during a compartment-offline cycle. The shake action flexes the bag fabric, cracks the cake and lets it fall into the hopper. Shaker design is a legacy technology still used on smaller industrial duty (machining shop dust collection, light foundry exhaust, light cement applications) but largely displaced for new installations by pulse-jet designs."
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A **shaker baghouse** cleans its [filter bags](/glossary/filter-bag) by mechanically shaking the bag-support frame during a compartment-offline cycle. The shake action flexes the bag fabric, cracks the cake and lets it fall into the hopper. Shaker design is a legacy technology still used on smaller industrial duty (machining shop dust collection, light foundry exhaust, light cement applications) but largely displaced for new installations by [pulse-jet](/glossary/pulse-jet-baghouse) designs.

## Limitations

- High mechanical wear on bag attachments, fabric and shaker motors
- Slow cleaning cycle, requires compartment isolation
- Limited filtration capacity per footprint
- Difficult to scale to large industrial throughput

## Why sonic horns help on shaker baghouses

Shaker cleaning is fundamentally gentle and uneven, leaving cake residue between cycles. [Sonic horns](/glossary/sonic-horn) supplement the shake action without adding mechanical wear, improve cleaning consistency across the bag rows and reduce overall [differential pressure](/glossary/differential-pressure-baghouse).

## Related terms

- [Baghouse](/glossary/baghouse)
- [Filter bag](/glossary/filter-bag)
- [Compartment isolation](/glossary/compartment-isolation)
- [Sonic horn](/glossary/sonic-horn)