Woodson Products
Detroit, Michigan
George Wood was the brother of Garfield Wood, and had designed the original Load-Packer for Gar Wood Industries. Following the sale of that company in the mid-1940s, he went into business for himself in a joint venture with his son. Detroit-based Woodson Products produced a new refuse collection body called the Pax-All, which was announced in the summer of 1949.
The body was based on the Colecto design popular in the 1930s, consisting of a 12-cubic yard enclosed body and a rear trough which was hoisted up over the body where it automatically emptied the contents. The action was hydro-mechanical, using the underbody hoist to raise the body, which then acted against cables affixed to the truck chassis on one end, and to the trough on the other, drawing it up as the body ascended. An internal packer panel at the front of the body, also operated by cables and timed to the lift cycle, opened and closed automatically, pushing each new batch of refuse rearward in the body.
Woodson products introduced a dump truck body later the same year, but by June of 1950 had sold the Pax-All refuse body design to Gar Wood Industries. Through the mid-1950s, Gar Wood sold the Pax-All through its St. Paul Hydraulic Hoist division. However, these "bucket loader" type trucks rapidly became obsolete, and The Pax-All, along with the Leach Refuse Getter and Heil Colecto-Pak faded away in the wake of the dominant hydraulic compaction rear-loaders. Gar Wood resurrected the Pax-All trade name, which was applied to the wheeled container and hoist system used on the 1957 Gar Wood LP-500 rear loader.
SELECTED PATENTS
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Patent # |
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US2511556 |
Mechanical packing device for dump trucks |
Wood |
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September 20, 1948 |
4/6/26
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