Documents in our library describe Garlock (Garlock) as “gaskets”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Garlock (Garlock) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
- Form: “GASKETS”, p. 51
Garlock Packing Company: Garlock Packings and Other Garlock Products, Catalog F (1940)
- Ingredient: “made of Canadian asbestos fibre, scientifically blended with superheat resisting compounds”, p. 512
- Description: “OIL RESISTING COMPRESSED ASBESTOS FIBRE SHEET PACKING GARLOCK 902 SHEET GARLOCK 952 GASKET”, p. 532
- Use: “Recommended for use against superheated or saturated steam, air, gas, ammonia and most chemical solutions.”, p. 512
Garlock: Industrial Products Catalog (1975)
- Description: “7904 Asbestos Cloth and TFE ... cryogenic 500”, p. 513
Kind of product
We list Garlock (Garlock) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Garlock (2)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (209)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Flextallic (Flexitallic Gasket) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack 2 (Devcon) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · G (B.F. Goodrich) · G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) · Geniune Pittseal (Industrial Hermetic Materials (Miami, FL)) · Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.) · Goetze Metallic Gaskets (Johns-Manville) · GP/Duroid 3600 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · GP/Duroid 3700 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · Grafel (Fel Pro) · Graphlon C (Marlo Corporation) · and 189 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Garlock in the Lexicon
- Garlock: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Garlock on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 5.
- Garlock Packing Company: Garlock Packings and Other Garlock Products, Catalog F (January 1, 1940), p. 51.
- Garlock: Industrial Products Catalog (January 1, 1975), p. 51.
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