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The inventor received US Patent No. 345,843 on July 20, 1886.
The patent's description opens (from the scanned text):
The invention consists in a non-conducting covering or jacket composed of molded tiles or sections of a composition which includes as its non-conducting elementamaj or proportion of carbonate of or calcined magnesia, and which also includes a sufficient quantity of fibrous materialsuch as asbestus fiberto bind the magnesia together, the magnesia in any case forming of itself the principal nonconducting element of the composition.
- Published by
- US Patent Office
- Series
- US Patent No. 345,843
- Date
- July 20, 1886
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 21851 · asbestosclaims.law/library/21851
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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Where it was listed
- Barry Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (5th edition, 2005)
Cited by Barry Castleman
In Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (5th edition, 2005), which cites it in:
- Chapter 6 (Alternatives to Asbestos Insulation), p. 373, note 11
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“Boiler-covering (US Patent 345,843, 1886).” July 20, 1886. US Patent No. 345,843. US Patent Office. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 21851. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/21851.
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