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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Tri-County Businesses
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Bellows - Valvair, Canton,
Bradford County PA
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Bird's Eye View of Canton |
Article - Bellows - Valvair |
Township: Canton Borough, Bradford County
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Year: 1960s |
Postcard from Joyce's Collection |
Article by Eleanor Keagle submitted by Don
Stanton |
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BELLOWS-VALVAIR
In 1954 J. C. Collins of Akron, Ohio, owner of Sinclair-Collins Valve
Co. decided to expand production facilities and chose his home town, Canton,
PA to build a manufacturing plant. In 1958, the late Mr. Collins sold his
business interest to International Basic Economy Corporation, IBEC. Bellows-Valvair
with headquarters in Akron, Ohio, a division of IBEC, manufactures and
distributes a complete line of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment for industrial
application.
Five companies, The Bellows Company, Sinclair-Collins-Valvair, The Hunt
Valve Co., Hyquip Co., and Jackson Electronics, long established in the
development and manufacture of air and hydraulic cylinders, valves, electric
controls and related products, provided the base for the Bellow’s Valvair
organization.
The Bellows Air Motor, an air cylinder with integral valve, was the
principal product of the Bellows Company. The Sinclair-Collins Valve Company
offered its first two-pressure hydraulic valve with a diaphragm in the
early thirties and from this basic design came the present line of Sinclair-Collins
valves. The Hunt Valve Company brought an extensive line of both hydraulic
and pneumatic valves to the Bellows-Valvair Group. Hyquip hydraulic cylinders
with their patented key-locked cylinder-to-head design, were being used
b many steel-makers when that company joined Bellows-Valvair in 1960. Hyquip
added hydraulic power units, heavy duty air and hydraulic cylinders, to
the Bellows-Valvair line of products. Jackson Electronic provided electronic
and electric controls for a number of major manufacturers in the field
of aircraft and missiles, automated machines, and its addition to Bellows-Valvair
in 1959 rounded out the hydraulic-pneumatic-electric control systems to
meet customer requirements.
Today, Bellows-Valvair has one-hundred-four company owned Field Offices
throughout the United States and Canada; with over 300 Field Engineers
servicing customers in every industrial area on this continent in their
needs for hydraulic and pneumatic power and control equipment. The Bellows-Valvair
Division of EBEC, S. A., from its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland,
provides sales and service for customers throughout Europe, the British
Isles, South America and the Far East.
Eleanor P. Keagle (1896-1971)