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Supercote (Garland)

Documents in our library describe Supercote (Garland) as “asbestos fabricated material for waterproofing roofs”.1 They give it as sold from 1914.1,2,3 They put its asbestos content at 2%.4 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Supercote (Garland) 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 1914-05-01”, said by GARLAND COMPANY, THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “ASBESTOS FABRICATED MATERIAL FOR WATERPROOFING ROOFS”, said by GARLAND COMPANY, THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Label: Supercote Black asbestos fibre roof coating (The Garland Company), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: May 1, 1914”, said by The Garland Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
  • Asbestos content: “An asbestos fibre roof coating of the highest quality. | SUPERCOTE is an asbestos fibre roofing coating and has been used universally with the best results. | PROTEX PLASTIC ASBESTOS ROOF CEMENT”, p. 12

Label: Supercote Roof Preservative (The Garland Co.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: May 1, 1914”, said by The Garland Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
  • Asbestos content: “Plasticized—Re-enforced With Genuine Long Canadian Asbestos Fiber; Seams of roof should be sealed with heavy Asbestos Roof Cement Paste”, p. 13

Celanese Memo Forwarding NIOSH's List of Trade-Name Products Containing Regulated Carcinogens (1977)

  • Asbestos content: “Supercote Roof Preservative | Asbestos | 02 | 0241333” (as of 1972-74), said by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, as recorded by Celanese Chemical Company (C. D. Barrett memo CDB-70-77), p. 104

Kind of product

We list Supercote (Garland) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Stik-On (York Industries) · Style 1030 (H. K. Porter) · Style 2844 (H. K. Porter) · Style 5621 Asbestos Wick (H. K. Porter) · Style A11P16G (Amatex) · Super Temp-Tite (Johns-Manville) · Superheat (Johns-Manville) · Superinsutape (Unarco) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tadpole (H. K. Porter) · Tadpole (Johns-Manville) · Tadpole (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Tanpac (A. W. Chesterton) · Tba "T" Range (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (January 3, 1929). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Label: Supercote Black asbestos fibre roof coating (The Garland Company), Image.
  3. Label: Supercote Roof Preservative (The Garland Co.), Image.
  4. Celanese Memo Forwarding NIOSH's List of Trade-Name Products Containing Regulated Carcinogens (August 26, 1977), p. 10.

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