Documents in our library describe Azkem (Harco Chemical) as “insulating materials-namely, heat resistant products including resin impregnated asbestos insulating tape, ceramic filled asbestos cloth tubes, treated asbestos cord, resin treated asbestos blankets, and heat resistant packing materials”.1 They give it as sold from 1960.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Azkem (Harco Chemical) 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 1960-09-15”, said by Harco Chemical, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “Insulating Materials-Namely, Heat Resistant Products Including Resin Impregnated Asbestos Insulating Tape, Ceramic Filled Asbestos Cloth Tubes, Treated Asbestos Cord, Resin Treated Asbestos Blankets, and Heat Resistant Packing Materials”, said by Harco Chemical, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Azkem (Harco Chemical) with paper, felt and millboard, 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.
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (299)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Asbestoseal (Celotex) · Asbestoseal (Philip Carey) · Aspaal M (Asahi Asbestos) · Aspaal M (Jujo Paper Mfg. Co. of Tokyo, Japan) · Aspaal W (Asahi Asbestos) · Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote) · Atco (American Tar) · Barrett Series 400 (Celotex) · Base Sheet (Philip Carey) · Best Felt (Armstrong Cork) · Bird Metal Gravel Stops Type Gs-2 (Bird & Son) · Black Top Asbestos (Philip Carey) · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt (Johns-Manville) · Bromley's Honor Pledge (George W. Bromley) · Buca Adhesive (Bird & Son) · and 279 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) · Asbestos Tape (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Asbestos Yarn (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Yarn (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Yarn (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Atlas (Atlas Asbestos) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Battleship (Keasbey & Mattison) · BB (British Belting & Asbestos) · Beldam'S Pilot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Bes-Var (Sun Chemical Co. (Electro-Technical Div.)) · Besto-Tak (Johns-Manville) · Beswick (Atlas Asbestos) · Beswik (Atlas Asbestos) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (December 16, 1960). Not yet published in our library.
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