Documents in our library describe Powerite (Argo Asbestos & Rubber) as “compressed asbestos sheet packing”.1 They give it as sold from 1924.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Powerite (Argo Asbestos & Rubber) 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 1924-03-01”, said by ARGO ASBESTOS & RUBBER CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “COMPRESSED ASBESTOS SHEET PACKING”, said by ARGO ASBESTOS & RUBBER CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Powerite (Argo Asbestos & Rubber) 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.
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Pamco (Phoenix Gasket & Packing) · Panacea (Prince Rubber Company) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Permanite (TBA Industrial Products) · Pitseal (Hermetic Materials) · Pivot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Plastic (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Pucaro (Presspan-Fabrik Chr. Authenrieth) · Pyroid (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M E-66 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Mastite (Aberdeen Industries) · Reinz-Repa (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinz-Super-Spezial (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Argo Asbestos & Rubber 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) (February 15, 1927). Not yet published in our library.
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“Powerite (Argo Asbestos & Rubber).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/argo-asbestos-and-rubber-powerite.
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