Documents in our library describe Tanpac (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 1920.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Tanpac (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 1920-01-01”, 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 Tanpac (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) · Supercote (Garland) · Superheat (Johns-Manville) · Superinsutape (Unarco) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tadpole (H. K. Porter) · Tadpole (Johns-Manville) · Tadpole (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Tba "T" Range (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Terrybestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Tex-Knit (maker not given) · Therm-a-gard (H. K. Porter) · Thermagard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Thermalon (Amatex) · Thermo-Chem (Johns-Manville) · Thermo-Pac (Johns-Manville) · 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.) · Super Cutno (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Super X (Chicago Wilcox) · Superbestos (Chambers Gasket & Mfg.) · Superheat (Johns-Manville) · Superpax (William R. C. Windsor) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tadpole (Johns-Manville) · Target (Anchor Packing) · Tuffoid (Rudolph Orlob) · Unarco (Unarco) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Uni Syn Style No. 239 (Keasbey & Mattison) · Unitallic 166 (Unarco) · Valvasca SS (maker not given) · Valvasca Type M (maker not given) · 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) (August 23, 1946). Not yet published in our library.
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