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G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.)

Documents in our library describe G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) as “a packing that is being successfully used in many commercial applications, at pressures to 15,000 psi, without extrusion of the packing”.1 They give it as sold from 1949.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1952, April 1952

  • Description: “a packing that is being successfully used in many commercial applications, at pressures to 15,000 psi, without extrusion of the packing”, said by Greene, Tweed & Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 501

Asbestos Magazine, 1949, November 1949

  • Sold from: “"Palmetto G-T Ring Packing Technical Bulletin", No. TB-918 ... issued recently”, said by Greene, Tweed & Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 462

Asbestos Magazine, 1954, June 1954

  • Use: “companion packing ... in applications of all pressures to 15,000 psi”, said by Greene, Tweed & Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 263
  • Description: “G.T. Ring (listed, product not given)” (as of 1952-present), p. 824

Kind of product

We list G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. 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 Greene Tweed & Co. (9)

Palmetto · Cutno · Palmetto Cabcock · Palmetto Cutno · Palmetto Plastic · Palmetto Super Sheet · Plastic · Runwel · Super Cutno

Gaskets and packing by other makers (202)

Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Firefly (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Flex Seal (Sepco Metallic Gasket Co.) · Flextallic (Flexitallic Gasket) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack 2 (Devcon) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · G (B.F. Goodrich) · 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) · GP/Duroid 3600 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · GP/Duroid 3700 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · and 182 more: all gaskets and packing

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, April 1952 (April 1, 1952), p. 50.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1949, November 1949 (November 1, 1949), p. 46.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1954, June 1954 (June 1, 1954), p. 26.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 82. Not yet published in our library.

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“G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/greene-tweed-and-co-g-t-ring.

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