Documents in our library describe Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) as “"silent grip" brake lining”.1 They give it as sold from 1922.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Anchor Packing Company: Anchor Packings, Catalog K (c. 1912)
Product: Silent Grip belt stencil (The Anchor Packing Company), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: June 1, 1922”, said by The Anchor Packing Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Kind of product
We list Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) with brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (76)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rayman (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Demon (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Safetybestos (Bondall) · Servbestos (Thermoid Rubber) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Standco Brake Blocks (Standco Industries) · Starbestos (Knerr & Bortz) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Tiger Brake Shoes (Abex) · Top-Dog (Cape Asbestos) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · VeeLock (U.S. Asbestos) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials
See also
- Anchor Packing on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
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