Documents in our library describe Eternit (GAF) as “flat sheet, type u 1/8-3/8 inch and type f 1/8-1/4 inch; sheet sizes 4'x4' to 4'x12'”.1 They give it as sold from 1903.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Eternit (GAF) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Advertisement: ETERNIT (The RUBEROID Co.)
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1903-01-01”, said by GAF CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
- Description: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT FOR ROOFING PURPOSES, FOR COVERING WALLS AND CEILINGS, AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES; AND PIPE, TUBES, SHEETS, AND MOLDED PIECES OF ASBESTOS-CEMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ROOFING PURPOSES”, said by GAF CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “shingle, roofing, cement” (as of 1969), p. 743
Kind of product
We list Eternit (GAF) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by GAF (19)
Watcocell · Imperial · Air Cell · Color-tex · Panelstone · Sponge Felt · Stratalite · American Thatch · Clipfast · Dura Shake · Dura-Color · Duracolor · Duroc · Dutch Lap · Eternit Stonewall · Panelbestos · Stoneglow · Stonewall Board · Vanguard
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (364)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Dualay (Keasbey & Mattison) · Duraform (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Duralite (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Ebonized Asbestos (Ambler Asbestos) · Ebonized Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Economy 250 (National Gypsum) · Equality (Johns-Manville) · Eternit (Ruberoid) · Eternit Asbestos Shingles (American Insulation Co.) · Eternit Stonewall Siding (Eternit, Inc.) · Facad (United States Plywood) · Facade (Cape Universal Bldg. Products of Cape Asbestos Group) · Face Span (Johns-Manville) · Facespan (Johns-Manville) · Ferobestos (J. W. Roberts Ltd (Turner & Newall)) · and 344 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Eternit in the Lexicon
- 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
- Advertisement: ETERNIT (The RUBEROID Co.), p. 1.
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (January 11, 1968). Not yet published in our library.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 74. Not yet published in our library.
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