Documents in our library describe Chemlon (Crane Packing) as “blue asbestos packing & gaskets”.1 They give it as sold from 1948.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Chemlon (Crane Packing) 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 Chemlon (Crane Packing) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “blue asbestos packing & gaskets” (as of 1953, 1976), p. 671
Label: John Crane Chemlon (Crane Packing Company), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: May 20, 1948”, said by Crane Packing Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Kind of product
We list Chemlon (Crane Packing) 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.) · Bronco (Janos Industrial Insulation) · Bulldog (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · C Asbestos Millboard (Johns-Manville) · C.W. (Chicago Wilcox) · Cabcock (Unarco) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Centripac (Johns-Manville) · Chempac (Johns-Manville) · Chemstone (Johns-Manville) · Chesco (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton 1000 (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton Packing Service (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton Sixty Four (A. W. Chesterton) · Cogasa (Rhopac) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Crane Packing on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 67. Not yet published in our library.
- Label: John Crane Chemlon (Crane Packing Company), Image.
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