Documents in our library describe Fyrex (Grant Wilson) as “asbestos paper for insulating and fireproofing purposes [ sold primarily to manufacturers of gaskets, gas, electrical and other devices which require extremely high fireproofing material and asbestos gaskets and asbestos board also sold primarily to said manufacturers]”.1 They give it as sold from 1945.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Fyrex (Grant Wilson) 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 1945-06”, said by GRANT WILSON, INCORPORATED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “ASBESTOS PAPER FOR INSULATING AND FIREPROOFING PURPOSES [ SOLD PRIMARILY TO MANUFACTURERS OF GASKETS, GAS, ELECTRICAL AND OTHER DEVICES WHICH REQUIRE EXTREMELY HIGH FIREPROOFING MATERIAL AND ASBESTOS GASKETS AND ASBESTOS BOARD ALSO SOLD PRIMARILY TO SAID MANUFACTURERS]”, said by GRANT WILSON, INCORPORATED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Fyrex (Grant Wilson) with paper, felt and millboard 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, Electricians and Electrical Workers, Roofers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Grant Wilson (1)
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (298)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet (Johns-Manville) · Florobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Foil Laminates (Nicolet) · Fosterite Asbestos (Westinghouse) · Frost-Proof Pipe Covering (GAF) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · Gaftemp Roof Insulation (GAF) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · Gold-Line (Johns-Manville) · Grosscell (Philip Carey) · Herco (John Herman) · High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper (Johns-Manville) · High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets (Johns-Manville) · and 278 more: all paper, felt and millboard
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · F.O.P. (Uniroyal) · Felbestos (Fel-Pro) · Firefly (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Flex Seal (Sepco Metallic Gasket Co.) · Flextallic (Flexitallic Gasket) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack 2 (Devcon) · G (B.F. Goodrich) · G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Garlock (Garlock) · Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) · Geniune Pittseal (Industrial Hermetic Materials (Miami, FL)) · Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.) · Goetze Metallic Gaskets (Johns-Manville) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Grant Wilson: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Grant Wilson on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (August 1, 1958). Not yet published in our library.
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