Documents in our library describe Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) as “garco asbestos packings, automobile specialties and textiles”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1920, January 1920
Asbestos Magazine, 1935, May 1935
- Fiber grade: “Commercial Grade, Underwriters' Grade, Grade AA, Grade AAA, Grade AAAA”, p. 22
- Use: “tin wiping strips, welding blankets, conveyor belts, stereotype mat dryers, strainer bags, bags for dust collection, wire wiping wicks, oil burner wicking, and awning cloths”, said by General Asbestos & Rubber Division, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 392
- Ingredient: “made of asbestos fibre obtained from Africa, Arizona and Canada—each selected for specific qualities and properly blended”, p. 22
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “metallic asbestos yarns” (as of 1924), p. 803
Kind of product
We list Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) with cloth, tape and other textiles 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.
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) · Flamegard (Southern Asbestos) · Flamemaster (Atlas Textile) · Flamesafe (Singer Safety Products) · Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) · Flourobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack (Devcon) · Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) · Gardian Line (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Gardwell #164 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #174 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #1744 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gatortape (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · Glasbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Flex Seal (Sepco Metallic Gasket Co.) · Flextallic (Flexitallic Gasket) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack 2 (Devcon) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · G (B.F. Goodrich) · G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Garlock (Garlock) · 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) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1920, January 1920 (January 1, 1920), p. 2.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1935, May 1935 (May 1, 1935), p. 2.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 80. Not yet published in our library.
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