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12\# Asbestos Tape (Johns-Manville)

12# Asbestos Tape was a Johns-Manville asbestos tape.1,2 In sworn answers in a 1969 lawsuit, J-M listed a "Gummed Asbestos Tape," which it described as "A 12-lb. asbestos paper tape."2

An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, lists 12# Asbestos Tape under Johns-Manville among papers, felts and blankets, but prints an X where the years it was made would be.1

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Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked with or around 12# Asbestos Tape (Johns-Manville) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about 12# Asbestos Tape (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made until: “X”, p. 101
  • Form: “PAPER,FELT,BLANKETS”, p. 101
  • Made from: “X”, p. 101

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories with exhibits

  • Description: “(Asbestos Tape) A 12-lb. asbestos paper tape”, p. 242

Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1936”, p. 903
  • Asbestos content: “95.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 903
  • Use: “used to wrap duct joints and in many other applications”, p. 763
  • Description: “Paper tape made from 12 lb. asbestos paper, it is felted, composed of asbestos fiber and binder. It comes in 2 or 3 inch rolls”, p. 763
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 903
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1980”, p. 903
  • Form: “Paper”, p. 903
  • Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): 12 lb. Asbestos Tape” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 613
  • Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 903
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 613
  • Description: “paper, felt, blankets”, p. 1274

Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)

  • Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): 12 lb. Asbestos Tape” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 215
  • Made at: “Waukegan Plant (1922 to 1985): 12# Asbestos Tape” (at Waukegan) (the plant: Waukegan, Illinois), p. 265
  • Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 215

Kind of product

We list 12# Asbestos Tape (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)

Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Toasterbord · Transhield · Type GT · Ventsulation · Vitro Fire Felt · White Surface Asbestos Jacket · #50 Asbestos Weatherproofing Felt · 15A Asbestos Jacket · 45A Asbestos Jacket · 50 Weatherproofing · 770 Coated Asbestos Jacket · 7700 Coated Jacket · Akoustikos Felt · Amber Loklube Style 1009A · Aqua Covering · and 69 more on the company's page

Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)

Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Wheeler (Wheeler Protective Apparel) · White Top Asbestos Jacket (Philip Carey) · Woolfelt (GAF) · Wovenstone (Unarco) · X-l (Excelsior) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · 411 (Nicolet) · 580 (Nicolet) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Abestine (International Pulp) · Air Vent (GAF) · Air Vent (Ruberoid) · Air Vent Asphalt Felt (GAF) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard

See also

References

  1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 10.
  2. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories with exhibits (December 29, 1969), p. 24.
  3. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 90.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 127. Not yet published in our library.
  5. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 21.

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