Heyl & Patterson Inc.

Heyl & Patterson Inc. is an American specialist engineering company, founded in 1887 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania.

History

Heyl & Patterson was founded by Edmund Heyl and William Patterson cite web
title = A Standard Reference
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accessdate = 2008-07-17] in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They design and manufacture barge unloaders, rail car dumpers, ship unloaders and other materials handling equipment. Heyl & Patterson also offers engineering services and environmental processing equipment, including dryers, coolers and mixers. cite web
title = Family Values Kept Heyl Going
publisher = Pittsburgh Business Times
url = http://pittsburgh-.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2007/08/20/focus4.html
accessdate = 2008-08-11] The company was originally composed of engineers, fabricators, and erectors, with offices on the former Monongahela riverside Water Street, and a factory on the North side of Pittsburgh. Since then, Heyl & Patterson has designed, fabricated, erected, and serviced bridges transferring ore at steel mills; cranes lifting entire railroad cars; towers unloading barges filled with ore, coal, sand, and slag; corrugated steel coal preparation plants cleaning and classifying coal; and giant loaders for seafaring ships.cite book
last = Orr
first = C. Prentiss
title = Pittsburgh Born, Pittsburgh Bred: 500 of the More Famous People Who Have Called Pittsburgh Home
publisher = ?
date = April 2008
pages = 273
url = http://www.pghhistory.org/PittsburghBornPittsburghBred.asp
isbn = 978-0936340166 ]

H&P Divisions

Renneburg Division

The Renneburg Division handles thermal processing of powders and bulk solids, as well as advanced chemical, mineral and environmental processing equipment, including fluid bed dryers, coolers, calciners, agglomerators, presses and mixers. Originally founded in 1874 as Edw. Renneburg & Sons Co. of Baltimore, the Renneburg Division has been a part of Heyl & Patterson since 1985. Today the division produces thermal processing technology that is "environmentally sensitive and production-minded", tailored to the needs of the powder and bulk solids, chemical, and mineral thermal processing industries.cite web
title = Renneburg Division
publisher = Heyl & Patterson Inc.
url = http://heylpatterson.com/products/renneburgdiv.htm
accessdate = 2008-06-20]

Bulk Transfer Division

The Bulk Transfer Division designs and manufacturers variations of rail car rotary dumpers, or "wagon-tipplers", which are in operation worldwide. These include rotary dumper, C-shaped rotary (CR) dumpers, closed and open-sided turnover dumpers, and single and multiple car dumpers. They also design and manufacture rail car moving devices such as train positioners, train indexing equipment, CUB and other support equipment. Bulk Transfer also offers material handling equipment such as barge unloaders with both grab and continuous bucket designs, and related specialty machinery.cite web
title = Bulk Transfer Division
publisher = Heyl & Patterson Inc.
url = http://heylpatterson.com/products/bulkdivision.htm
accessdate = 2008-06-20]

References

External links

* [http://heylpatterson.com/default.htm Heyl & Patterson website]
* [http://www.heylpat.com/ HeylPat Technologies]