Limpet (AC&S)

Limpet was a spray insulation that Armstrong Contracting & Supply (AC&S) distributed; the sources point to others as its makers.^1,2 An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists it under AC&S with the note "REBRAND ROBERTS & ATLAS," which in that list means the product was made by another company, here named as Roberts & Atlas, and sold under the listed company's name.¹ The list gives it as made from 1963 to 1967.¹

In a 1969 deposition in his own lawsuit, Samuel Potter was asked who made the Limpet spray; he answered that "Armstrong was the distributor of it" and that it "came from England originally."² He said that in 1963, on an Armstrong Contracting and Supply job at the Firestone plant, "We were spraying that Limpet spray" on "Different types of vessels."² He described the material this way: "It has lots of fibers, asbestos fibers and I don't know what else it has in it and it comes out dry, but there's a wet--comes out of a big pipe and there's a wet spray that we spray on there and those fibers, they fly all through there."²

In Britain: J. W. Roberts' Limpet.

In America: Keasbey & Mattison's Limpet.

Pictures

How Limpet (AC&S) looked: a label, photograph or catalog page from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.

• Product photograph: Grade Fiber LW25 for Sprayed Limpet (Armstrong Contracts & Supply Corp.)Product photograph · ACL Doc 15154

Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around Limpet (AC&S) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the ACandS Asbestos Settlement Trust or the Federal-Mogul Asbestos Personal Injury Trust (T&N). Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about Limpet (AC&S) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kind of product

We list Limpet (AC&S) with sprayed insulation, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters.

See also

• AC&S: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• AC&S on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources

References

1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 6.
2. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Deposition of Samuel Potter (filed 1989) (November 25, 1969), pp. 103–104.
3. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 91.
4. Armstrong Contracting and Supply Corporation: Sprayed "Limpet" Asbestos Machine Operating Instructions, p. 25.