Documents in our library describe Amflex (Anchor Packing) as “machinery packing formed variously from cotton, duck, asbestos, and the like”.1 They give it as sold from 1933.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Amflex (Anchor Packing) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.
Label: Ring Packing, Amflex Rings (The Anchor Packing Co.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20536
Label: Amflex-Packings tag (The Anchor Packing Company)Label or package · ACL Doc 20213
Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about Amflex (Anchor Packing) 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 1933-08-01”, said by ANCHOR PACKING COMPANY, THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “MACHINERY PACKING FORMED VARIOUSLY FROM COTTON, DUCK, ASBESTOS, AND THE LIKE”, said by ANCHOR PACKING COMPANY, THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Label: Amflex-Packings tag (The Anchor Packing Company), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: August 1, 1933”, said by The Anchor Packing Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Label: Ring Packing, Amflex Rings (The Anchor Packing Co.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: August 1, 1933”, said by The Anchor Packing Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
Asbestos Magazine, 1936, December 1936
- Description: “Machinery Packing formed variously from cotton duck, asbestos and the like”, said by The Anchor Packing Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 414
Kind of product
We list Amflex (Anchor Packing) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Anchor Packing (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.) · 64 Diagonal High Pressure Packing (A. W. Chesterton) · Aberdeen 50 (Aberdeen Industries) · Accobest An-8012 (Armstrong Cork) · Accopac An-892 (Armstrong Cork) · Ad-486 (Armstrong Cork) · Ajax (United States Gasket) · Akron (AMG Industries) · As-48S (Armstrong Cork) · Asbesteel (Faul & Timmins) · Asbestext (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Asbestopac (Victor) · Asbestopak (Felt Products Mfg. Co.) · Asbestoprene (Victor Products) · Asbestoprene (Victor) · Asbestos (Nicolet) · and 184 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Anchor Packing 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 11, 1936). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Amflex-Packings tag (The Anchor Packing Company), Image.
- Label: Ring Packing, Amflex Rings (The Anchor Packing Co.), Image.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1936, December 1936 (December 1, 1936), p. 41.
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