Documents in our library describe Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) as “packings for wearing and bearing parts of machinery and mechanical devices, being made of asbestos yarn lubricated with a graphite grease lubricant”.1 They give it as sold from 1921.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) 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 1921-04”, said by GREENE, TWEED & CO., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “PACKINGS FOR WEARING AND BEARING PARTS OF MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL DEVICES, BEING MADE OF ASBESTOS YARN LUBRICATED WITH A GRAPHITE GREASE LUBRICANT”, said by GREENE, TWEED & CO., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) 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.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Greene Tweed & Co. (1)
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (300)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Rico (Record Industrial) · Ring packing (Garlock) · RM 24 H120 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM 7504 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM or R/M (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM Style 25 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rra 1000 (Elliott Glove) · Russo (A. W. Chesterton) · Rwl-100 (H. K. Porter) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · S-1565,9S-4680L (Anchor Packing) · Safecote (Amatex) · Safety Wahlert Products (Wahlert Products) · Sal-Mo (Sall Mountain) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · and 280 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Other gaskets and packing by Greene Tweed & Co. (9)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (202)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Red Mastite (Aberdeen Industries) · Reinz-Repa (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinz-Super-Spezial (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinzolit (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Robot Packing (Armor Products) · Russo (A. W. Chesterton) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · Sceptre (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Sea Ring Packing (Johns-Manville) · Sea-ro (Chester M. Roe) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · Sealion (James Walker & Co.) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · and 182 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (November 25, 1924). Not yet published in our library.
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