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Rudolph Edward Steck received US Patent No. 2,252,991 on August 19, 1941, filed November 13, 1939. It was assigned to Raybestos Manhattan Inc.
The patent's description opens (from the scanned text):
This invention relates to improvements in friction material suitable for ,brake blocks, brake lining,clutch facings and the like and to a novel method of manufacture, and particularly asbestos base friction material whose primary binder constituent is a metallic oxidation product formed in situ the precomposited and shaped material.
- Author
- Rudolph Edward Steck
- Published by
- US Patent Office
- Series
- US Patent No. 2,252,991
- Date
- August 19, 1941
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 22445 · asbestosclaims.law/library/22445
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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Where it was listed
- Asbestos, September 1941, in its patents department (the year's issues)
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Rudolph Edward Steck. “Friction Material (US Patent 2,252,991, 1941).” August 19, 1941. US Patent No. 2,252,991. US Patent Office. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 22445. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/22445.
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