Documents in our library describe Connectite (GAF) as “asbestos paper impregnated with rubber for use as gasketing material”.1 They give it as sold from 1970.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Connectite (GAF) 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 1970-01-15”, said by GAF CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “ASBESTOS PAPER IMPREGNATED WITH RUBBER FOR USE AS GASKETING MATERIAL”, said by GAF CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Connectite (GAF) with paper, felt and millboard and gaskets and packing, 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.
Other paper, felt and millboard by GAF (12)
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (287)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Coated Asbestos Base Felt (Johns-Manville) · Cohrlastic (Connecticut Hard Rubber) · Cold Application Felt (Johns-Manville) · Commercial Grade (Ruberoid) · Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) · Commercial Paper (Nicolet) · Commercial Paper (Ruberoid) · Copperclad (Johns-Manville) · Corlon, Aprina (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Mantina (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Norager (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Pirelle (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Serenada (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Tessera (Armstrong Cork) · Covergard (H. K. Porter) · and 267 more: all paper, felt and millboard
Other gaskets and packing by GAF (1)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (210)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · 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) · Corbestos (Dana) · Cranite (Crane) · Cumpac (Johns-Manville) · Cutno (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Degussa (Deutsche Gold- & Silber-Scheideanstalt) · Dixie (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Everoid (Hermetic Materials Ltd.) · Excelite (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · and 190 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- GAF: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- GAF 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 12, 1970). Not yet published in our library.
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