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A two-page letter of September 13, 1936, from F. C. Ryan of Maplewood, New Jersey, to a Mr. Paxton, headed "Asbestos Bags for Dust Collection." Ryan reported that stricter zinc oxide specifications, especially from the paint trade, were pushing zinc oxide makers toward high-temperature baghouses, for which "there is only one answer, - asbestos bags," and named producers that were planning to switch from cotton bags. He wondered whether "we have not been too modest in our claims for asbestos" and could run "our asbestos bags" up to 700 degrees F, and discussed the dust collectors made by Blaw-Knox and Northern Blower.
- Author
- F. C. Ryan
- Sent to
- Mr. Paxton
- Series
- The Sumner Simpson Papers
- Date
- September 13, 1936
- Number
- Simpson no. 02958-02959
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 13299 · asbestosclaims.law/library/13299
- Rights
- Republished under fair use for research and historical study.
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What it shows
Besides making asbestos textiles and brake linings, Raybestos-Manhattan sold asbestos cloth bags for industrial dust collectors, and this letter shows the sales side of that business: the growing need to collect hot dust and fume in the zinc oxide and smelting industries was seen as a market for asbestos cloth. It continues the bag-selling correspondence of 1935 (the memo to E. H. Jeffords on asbestos bags).
In Johns-Manville's index
Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:
Discusses new possibilities of using asbestos bags instead of cotton bags in processing of zinc oxide.
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This is document 02958-02959 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.
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“F. C. Ryan to Mr. Paxton on Asbestos Bags for Zinc Oxide Dust Collection.” September 13, 1936. The Sumner Simpson Papers, Simpson no. 02958-02959. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 13299. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/13299.
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