Documents in our library describe Cranite (Crane) as “sheet-asbestos packing”.1 They give it as sold from 1916.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Cranite (Crane) 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.
Catalog page: Cranite Sheet Packing (Crane Co.)Catalog page · ACL Doc 15205
Catalog page: "Cranite" gaskets (Crane)Catalog page · ACL Doc 15199
What each document says
Every statement about Cranite (Crane) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Catalog page: "Cranite" gaskets (Crane)
- Asbestos content: “the highest grade of sheet packing obtainable, is an exceptionally strong and durable asbestos composition that does not deteriorate with age. Only especially selected long fibre is used in its manufacture.”, p. 12
Catalog page: Cranite Sheet Packing (Crane Co.)
- Asbestos content: “An Asbestos Composition Manufactured Solely for Crane Co.”, p. 13
Kind of product
We list Cranite (Crane) 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.) · Chesterton (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton 1000 (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton Packing Service (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton Sixty Four (A. W. Chesterton) · Cogasa (Rhopac) · Connectite (GAF) · Corbestos (Dana) · Cumpac (Johns-Manville) · Cutno (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Degussa (Deutsche Gold- & Silber-Scheideanstalt) · Dixie (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Everoid (Hermetic Materials Ltd.) · Excelite (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · F.O.P. (Uniroyal) · Felbestos (Fel-Pro) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (March 18, 1916). Not yet published in our library.
- Catalog page: "Cranite" gaskets (Crane), p. 1.
- Catalog page: Cranite Sheet Packing (Crane Co.), p. 1.
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