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Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos)

Documents in our library describe Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) as “for its woven asbestos and brass wire brake lining, adopted the name "mintex" in lieu of the older "brasbestos" trade name”.1 They give it as sold from 1925.2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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How Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) 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.

What each document says

Every statement about Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1975, July 1975

  • Description: “for its Woven Asbestos and Brass Wire Brake Lining, adopted the name "Mintex" in lieu of the older "Brasbestos" trade name”, p. 521

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1925-01”, said by BRITISH BELTING & ASBESTOS LTD., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
  • Description: “IMPREGNATED ASBESTOS MATERIAL IN THE FORM OF RINGS, LININGS, AND COVERINGS FOR USE IN FRICTION CLUTCHES, BRAKE BLOCKS, BRAKE BANDS, SHOCK ABSORBERS, AND IN OTHER APPLIANCES OF A LIKE NATURE”, said by BRITISH BELTING & ASBESTOS LTD., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
  • Description: “CLUTCH FACINGS, BRAKE FACINGS AND BRAKE BLOCKS MADE WHOLLY OR PRINCIPALLY OF ASBESTOS OR ADMIXTURES OF ASBESTOS AND PLASTICS THE ASBESTOS PREDOMINATING; MACHINERY PACKING; SEALS AND PISTON RINGS”, said by BRITISH BELTING & ASBESTOS LIMITED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2

Catalog page: Mintex asbestos yarn, tape and cloth (British Belting & Asbestos Ltd.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: January, 1925”, said by British Belting & Asbestos Ltd., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
  • Asbestos content: “MINTEX Asbestos Yarn, Tape and Cloth”, p. 13

Asbestos Magazine, 1952, October 1952

  • Description: “Mintex Brake & Clutch Liners & other Friction materials”, p. 574

Asbestos Magazine, 1960, January 1960

  • Description: “the world-famous MINTEX friction materials and MINTEX Industrial Plastics—made by B.B.A.”, p. 615

Kind of product

We list Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) with gaskets and packing and brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers, HVAC, Refrigeration, and Appliance Workers.

Other gaskets and packing by British Belting & Asbestos (1)

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Gaskets and packing by other makers (210)

Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Lighthouse (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Lion Trade Mark (James Walker & Co.) · Locklube Packings (Johns-Manville) · Mastite (Aberdeen Asbestos) · McCORPAC Tork-lock (McCord) · McKim (McCord) · Mercedes Benz (Daimier-Benz Aktiengesellschaft) · Mobilene Sheet Packing (Johns-Manville) · Nicobestos (Nicolet) · Nicolam (Nicolet) · Nicosat (Nicolet) · Nicoseal (Nicolet) · Nicospec (Nicolet) · No Leak (Cincinnati Gasket Packing & Mfg.) · No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet (Johns-Manville) · and 190 more: all gaskets and packing

Brakes and friction materials by other makers (76)

Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Cobra (Johns-Manville) · Ideal (Emsco Asbestos) · Inlite (General Motors) · Itt Aimco (ITT Aimco) · Jurid (Kirchbach'Sche Werke Kirchbach & Co.) · Lined brake shoe sets (Wagner) · Low N Bestos (Wheeling Brake Block Manufacturing) · Lx (Multibestos) · MoPar Cyclebond (Chrysler) · National Gypsum (National Gypsum) · Non-Scor (Unarco) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Permafuse (S. G. Tilden) · Pioneer Asbestos (Floyd R. Biggs) · R-m (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M R-2854-B (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, July 1975 (July 1, 1975), p. 52.
  2. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (August 13, 1925). Not yet published in our library.
  3. Catalog page: Mintex asbestos yarn, tape and cloth (British Belting & Asbestos Ltd.), Image.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, October 1952 (October 1, 1952), p. 57.
  5. Asbestos Magazine, 1960, January 1960 (January 1, 1960), p. 61.

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