Documents in our library describe Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) as “molded packing with groove and corresponding projection composed of asbestos or cotton duck, with a rubber or composition binder, with or without metal strips of an anti-frictional composition made in various sizes and lengths spiraled or coiled. also cut or molded rings, for use in packing rods and stuffing boxes or engines, etc.”.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1938, June 1938
- Description: “molded Packing with Groove and Corresponding Projection composed of Asbestos or Cotton Duck, with a Rubber or Composition Binder, with or without metal strips of an anti-frictional composition made in various sizes and lengths spiraled or coiled. Also cut or molded rings, for use in packing rods and stuffing boxes or engines, etc.”, said by The James Walker Packing Co., Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 411
Kind of product
We list Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) with gaskets and packing and brakes and friction materials, 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, Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · 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) · Silverbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Soruco (Southern Rubber Co.) · Spiroflex (Standco Industries) · Squeegee (Henrite Products) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Sterlbestos (Standco Industries) · Sterling Spiroflex (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (76)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rayman (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Demon (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Safetybestos (Bondall) · Servbestos (Thermoid Rubber) · Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Standco Brake Blocks (Standco Industries) · Starbestos (Knerr & Bortz) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Tiger Brake Shoes (Abex) · Top-Dog (Cape Asbestos) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · and 56 more: all brakes and friction materials
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1938, June 1938 (June 1, 1938), p. 41.
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