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A rounded-corner swatch of gray compressed asbestos sheet with a stapled paper label from the Hercules Packing Corporation of Alden, New York, reading "Style 570 Blue Cape Compressed Asbestos." Compressed asbestos sheet was cut into gaskets for flanged pipe joints, valves and pumps carrying steam, hot water, oil and chemicals. The back shows the bare sheet, with visible fiber bundles.
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- Hercules Packing Corporation
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- Product in the AsbestosClaims.Law collection
- Asbestos
- Label reads "Style 570 Blue Cape Compressed Asbestos"; "Blue Cape" is the trade name for South African crocidolite, but the fiber has not been tested.
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 14600 · asbestosclaims.law/library/14600
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