Documents in our library describe Hy Temp (Armstrong Cork) as “hy-temp cement, hy-temp insulation in powder form, to 1900° f.”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 1900 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Hy Temp (Armstrong Cork) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Armstrong's Industrial Insulations (1951)
- Ingredient: “calcined diatomaceous earth, asbestos fiber, magnesia carbonate, and binders”, p. 601
- Use: “inner layer in combination with an outer layer of 85% Magnesia”, p. 601
- Form: “Hy-Temp Cement, Hy-temp insulation in powder form, to 1900° F.”, p. 721
- Temperature limit: “heated lines and surfaces from above 600° F. to 1900° F.”, p. 601
- Form: “tubular half sections and curved segmental blocks 3 ft long, 1" to 3" thick; also flat blocks”, p. 601
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “diatomaceous earth & asbestos pipe covering” (as of 1953), p. 852
Kind of product
We list Hy Temp (Armstrong Cork) with insulating cement and coatings, 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, Boilermakers.
Other insulating cement and coatings by Armstrong Cork (6)
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (318)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Heat-seal (Keene/Beh) · Hi Glos (Forty-Eight Insulations) · Hi Therm (M. H. Detrick) · Hi-Spred No. 43-784 (Morningstar-Paisley) · Hi-stick (Eagle-Picher) · Hightemp #12 (Philip Carey) · Hilite (Combustion Engineering) · Hy Temp (Keasbey & Mattison) · Hylo (Eagle-Picher) · Insul Mastic (Pure Asphalt) · Insul-finish (General Refractories) · Insulation Seal (Celotex) · Insulkote ET (Johns-Manville) · Insulkote ST (Johns-Manville) · Insulseal (Eagle-Picher) · and 298 more: all insulating cement and coatings
See also
- Armstrong Cork: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Armstrong Cork on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Armstrong's Industrial Insulations (January 1, 1951), pp. 60, 72.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 85. Not yet published in our library.
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