Documents in our library describe Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) as “gummed surface asbestos paper tape for sealing, heating, and cooling conduits and the like”.1 They give it as sold from 1959.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.
Label: Gum-Bestos pre-gummed asbestos paper tape (Grant Wilson, Inc.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20378
Label: Gum-Bestos asbestos paper tape (Grant Wilson, Inc.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20376
What each document says
Every statement about Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (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 1959-09-09”, said by GRANT WILSON, INCORPORATED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “GUMMED SURFACE ASBESTOS PAPER TAPE FOR SEALING, HEATING, AND COOLING CONDUITS AND THE LIKE”, said by GRANT WILSON, INCORPORATED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Label: Gum-Bestos asbestos paper tape (Grant Wilson, Inc.), Image
Label: Gum-Bestos pre-gummed asbestos paper tape (Grant Wilson, Inc.), Image
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “pregummed asbestos paper” (as of 1976), p. 824
Kind of product
We list Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) with paper, felt and millboard and cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
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) · 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) · Homart (Sears) · Houservice (O'Neill Lumber Co.) · Hydrocord (Armstrong Cork) · Insubestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Insul-attic (Nicolet) · and 278 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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) · Goldbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Granostruct (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Green Shield (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Greenshield (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Grey Rock Eagle (U.S. Asbestos) · Guardian (H. K. Porter) · Heatgard (H. K. Porter) · Herco (John Herman) · Hi-Luster (H. K. Porter) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Industrial No. 200-14 (Industrial Glove) · Industrial No. 225-14 (Industrial Glove) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
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) (September 23, 1959). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Gum-Bestos asbestos paper tape (Grant Wilson, Inc.), Image.
- Label: Gum-Bestos pre-gummed asbestos paper tape (Grant Wilson, Inc.), Image.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 82. Not yet published in our library.
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