Heyl & Patterson founded in Pittsburgh (1887)

Heyl & Patterson Equipment, an American specialist engineering company, was founded in 1887 by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm began as a sales agency for elevator and conveyor chains and elevator buckets, later developing into supplying complete elevators and conveyors. The specific founding date is not stated in the supplied passages.

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Background. Heyl & Patterson Equipment is an American specialist engineering company founded in 1887 and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm was established by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson in Downtown Pittsburgh, initially operating as a sales agency for elevator and conveyor chains and elevator buckets. This business later developed into supplying complete elevators and conveyors.

Early Operations. The company began as a sales agency in Downtown Pittsburgh, handling elevator and conveyor chains and elevator buckets. In 1901, amid growth of the business and the extension of activities into new fields, Heyl & Patterson acquired land for a manufacturing plant on Pennsylvania Avenue along the Ohio River in Allegheny City, now known as Pittsburgh's North Side.

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