Documents in our library describe Russo (A. W. Chesterton) as “mechanical packings, sheet packings, rod packings, valve packings, packing rings and gaskets, made of asbestos, fibre, rubber, synthetic plastic, textile material and/or combinations thereof including metallic reinforcements therein”.1 They give it as sold from 1894.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Russo (A. W. Chesterton) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1894-01-01”, said by A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANY, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “MECHANICAL PACKINGS, SHEET PACKINGS, ROD PACKINGS, VALVE PACKINGS, PACKING RINGS AND GASKETS, MADE OF ASBESTOS, FIBRE, RUBBER, SYNTHETIC PLASTIC, TEXTILE MATERIAL AND/OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF INCLUDING METALLIC REINFORCEMENTS THEREIN”, said by A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANY, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Russo (A. W. Chesterton) with cloth, tape and other textiles and gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by A. W. Chesterton (2)
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (299)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Ring packing (Garlock) · RM 24 H120 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM 7504 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM or R/M (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM Style 25 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rra 1000 (Elliott Glove) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Rwl-100 (H. K. Porter) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · S-1565,9S-4680L (Anchor Packing) · Safecote (Amatex) · Safety Wahlert Products (Wahlert Products) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · Sealsafe (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 279 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Other gaskets and packing by A. W. Chesterton (7)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (204)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Reinz-Repa (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinz-Super-Spezial (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinzolit (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Robot Packing (Armor Products) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · Sceptre (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Sea Ring Packing (Johns-Manville) · Sea-ro (Chester M. Roe) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · Sealion (James Walker & Co.) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · and 184 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- A. W. Chesterton: the company's documents, people, products and plants
- A. W. Chesterton on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (July 1, 1946). Not yet published in our library.
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