Classic Refuse Trucks HEIL

Heil Transfer Station Equipment

    Heil added a refuse transfer stations in 1968 through an agreement with the S. Vincen Bowles Co. of Sun Valley, California. The Bowles transfer system was manufactured by and sold by Heil, including the 75-cubic yard transfer trailer with hydraulic compaction-ejection blade. The Bowles trailer could be rear-fed from a bolt-on stationary packer unit, or top loaded through a roof door at the front, with the trailers ejection blade used to consolidate the load.

    The Bowles system was at the time the most widely used in the nation, having first appeared in Southern California as early as 1960. It was simple and relatively inexpensive, and could be adapted to different types of physical sites. Through contract with an established manufacturer with a proven system, Heil had once again expanded their offerings to the refuse industry with a minimum of development expense. Around this time, the two companies had contemplated a similar arrangement whereby Heil would build a Bowles-type front load packer body, but for unknown reasons, that plan never came to fruition.

    During the mid-1960s, Heil had also began experimenting in municipal refuse shredding systems. A Heil shredder was installed at Madison, Wisconsin for tests conducted jointly by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the University of Wisconsin. By 1969, the Heil Pulverizer line of shredders were in production and advertised nationally.

Heil-Bowles transfer system with rear-loading packer. Duo-Press compaction blade advances in trailer as incoming load is forced against it

Top-loading the trailer, with the trailer's packer blade consolidating load from front to rear

Heil-Bowles 75-yard compaction trailer with Ford L-Series tractor at the dump

Factory publicity photo of Heil trailer with IHC Transtar tractor

Hendrickson tractor with Heil trailer owned by Acme Disposal of Hinsdale, Illinois, a division of Waste Management Inc.
Having won the contract to haul refuse for the City of Milwaukee, Acme converted two city incinerators into
transfer stations using Heil equipment. A crew of 27 men completed the task in only four days, and the
1200 TPD station opened for business on time and as scheduled on January 4, 1971.

Heil Pulverizers were added to the lineup of transfer/disposal machinery

PATENTS:

Patent #	Description	Inventor	Assignee	Date
US3252602	Refuse Handling and Transporting Apparatus	Samuel V. Bowles		March 5, 1964

REFERENCES

S.Vincen Bowles, Father of the Front Loader, Chapter 10 Transfer Equipment
Eric Voytko and Zachary Geroux, January 16, 2010 (Classic Refuse Trucks)

Solid Waste Disposal: Methods and Problems in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Legislative Council Staff, November 16, 1970

Public Works Magazine, July, 1968 page 28 (Heil advertisement)

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