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Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum))

Documents in our library describe Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) as “plasticrylic ripple-tone panels”.1 They give it as sold from 1961.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) in the documents, in each document's own words.

  • Form: “PLASTICRYLIC RIPPLE-TONE PANELS”, p. 11

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1961-11-16”, said by NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
  • Description: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT PANELS WITH A BAKED PLASTIC, PEBBLE-LIKE COATING”, said by NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2

Asbestos Magazine, 1969, April 1969

  • Description: “Made of durable asbestos cement ... have a Ripple-Tone texture”, said by National Gypsum Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 403
  • Description: “asbestos-cement panels”, p. 1054

Kind of product

We list Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and joint compound and texture coatings, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters, Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum) (5)

Permaboard · Plasti-Clad · Plasticrylic · Plia-F-Lex · Woodrock

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (378)

Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Ranch Style (National Gypsum) · Reeferite (Johns-Manville) · Rentone (Johns-Manville) · Resistal (Keasbey & Mattison) · Resistal (Nicolet) · Ridge Roll (Johns-Manville) · Ring-Tite (Johns-Manville) · Rock Shake (Johns-Manville) · Rockspan Clapboard (Johns-Manville) · Roctone (Tilo Roofing) · Roll Board (Philip Carey) · Roll Board (Ruberoid) · Rubestos (Ruberoid) · Ruco (maker not given) · Rustic Shakes (Philip Carey) · and 358 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

Joint compound and texture coatings by other makers (23)

Imperial (U.S. Gypsum) · Sheetrock (U.S. Gypsum) · Vitramic (maker not given) · A.B. Tex (U.S. Gypsum) · Texolite (U.S. Gypsum) · Homart (Sears) · Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum) · Kemidol (U.S. Gypsum) · Pac-Tex (U.S. Gypsum) · Paste Spackling Putty (U.S. Gypsum) · Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) · Ready Mix (Georgia-Pacific) · Rutland Repair Products Ricky Rutland (Rutland Fire Clay Co.) · Scotstone (Marinite) · Sheet Rock (U.S. Gypsum) · Surco (Surface Coatings) · Textone (U.S. Gypsum) · Usg (U.S. Gypsum) · Wall (Georgia-Pacific) · Ceiling (Georgia-Pacific) · and 3 more: all joint compound and texture coatings

References

  1. Advertisement: Gold Bond Ripple-Tone Plasticrylic Panels (National Gypsum Company), p. 1.
  2. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (February 14, 1967). Not yet published in our library.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1969, April 1969 (April 1, 1969), p. 40.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 105. Not yet published in our library.

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