What do air compressors have in common with a corn planter? So, what would be the differences and similarities between air compressors and corn? These questions have been tricky in many minds, and it end up knowing their history and the companies which evolved over the decades.
When Alexander Campbell started business in 1836, for obvious reasons, he wasn’t thinking about air compressors. He made wagons, and when his brothers, William and James, joined him a year later in a black smith shop, they expanded into carriages, plows, harrows and cultivators. They were in Harrison, Ohio, farm country, so they concentrated on farm equipment. But they were not just content to make what was already around, they were innovative. They saw a need for a “corn drill” to make corn planting easier and quicker. They worked on their design for 22 years before a patent was awarded for the Campbell Corn Planter in 1859. Despite the patent, the machine still had problems, and out of discouragement, Alexander sold his share of the business to William and James.
Four years later, James and William studied the design and solved the problems and made their first production of the commercial corn drill. James, after many years became the sole owner of the business and called it was called James Campbell Manufacturing Company. Corn drill was originally adapted to use for planting small seeds, dropping cotton, and for fertilizing.
As time passed, James? three sons now own the company and the company have now also evolved. The company has made their expansion in manufacturing to make crucible furnaces for Ohio Pattern Works and Foundry Company owned by Joseph Hausfeld. In 1918, the association because so successful that Hausfeld had moved the operation from Cincinnati to Harrison. In 1920, the two companies have merged the operation and become, Campbell Hausfeld Company which is still making its way today.
The company diversified its metal castings and later expanded into sprayers for farmers and businesses. But it was in 1940 that a new era for the company began when they entered the air compressor business by purchasing all the patterns, tools, dies and fixtures for the manufacture of the Pressure King Air Compressor.
The company has continued growing in adding new products, particularly the tools and sprayers that are used for the air compressors. Starting from wagons, to corn planters, and to crucible doors; the company over 90 years evolved to air compressors.
Many categories of air compressors which today the Campbell Hausfeld air compressors have come into making commercial, contractor and residential air compressors and also as oil-less compressors.
The major category among them all is the residential air compressor. This works best with sizes and prices. The smallest air compressor has a capacity of 2 gallons and the largest one is 60 gallons capacity.
But, regardless of what size or why you need an air compressor (and there are many uses for one of these around your home), you know that with Campbell Hausfeld air compressors you are getting history and quality from a company that has been around for over 150 years.