Back when homes were lit with kerosene, Ralph E. Chapin and his brother-in-law Frank Harris ran a family hardware store in Oakfield, New York. They noticed that the tanks customers brought in often leaked, so Ralph decided to create better ones. This led to making top-notch storage tanks, pumps, compressed air sprayers, and hand sprayers.
More than a hundred years later, Chapin is still a leader in making sprayers, spreaders, irrigation systems, and accessories for homes and industries.