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Tadashi Fukuwatari, Kiyotaka Mishima, Hiroshi Ichimura and Hideaki Kurihara received US Patent No. 4,085,001 on April 18, 1978, filed June 30, 1976. It was assigned to Asahi Glass Co Ltd.
The patent's abstract:
A process for preparing glass fiber-reinforced cement sheets by dewatering a slurry wherein at least one member selected from asbestos, cotton, flax, hemp, wool, or silk fibers is added to the aqueous cement-glass fiber slurry. The sheets so produced have increased bending strengths and improved peeling resistance.
- Author
- Tadashi Fukuwatari; Kiyotaka Mishima; Hiroshi Ichimura; Hideaki Kurihara
- Published by
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- Series
- US Patent No. 4,085,001
- Date
- April 18, 1978
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 22267 · asbestosclaims.law/library/22267
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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Where it was listed
- Asbestos, September 1978, in its patents department (the year's issues)
- Barry Castleman, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (5th edition, 2005)
Cited by Barry Castleman
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Tadashi Fukuwatari, Kiyotaka Mishima, Hiroshi Ichimura, Hideaki Kurihara. “Fiber reinforced cementitious substrate (US Patent 4,085,001, 1978).” April 18, 1978. US Patent No. 4,085,001. US Patent and Trademark Office. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 22267. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/22267.
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