Documents in our library describe Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) as “johns-manville air cell sheets and blocks ... furnished in sheets, 36"x36", and blocks, 6"x36", or special sizes in thicknesses from 1/4" to 4"”.1 They give it as made 1908–1915.2 They put its asbestos content at 52.6% to 98%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (1920)
- Description: “a cellular insulation constructed of layers of plain and corrugated asbestos paper, with the channels running parallel with the length of the pipe”, p. 261
- Use: “For low pressure steam and hot water pipes.”, p. 261
- Form: “Johns-Manville Air Cell Sheets and Blocks ... furnished in sheets, 36"x36", and blocks, 6"x36", or special sizes in thicknesses from 1/4" to 4"”, p. 401
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1908”, p. 992
- Form: “Sheet/Block, Pipe Insulation”, p. 992
- Asbestos content: “52.6 - 98.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 992
- Description: “Very similar to ASBESTOCEL, constructed of alternating layers of plain and corrugated asbestos paper”, p. 702
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 992
- Description: “in this design, the air channels run lengthwise, parallel to the pipe”, p. 722
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1915 - 1920”, p. 992
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 992
H. W. Johns-Manville Co.: "J-M" Asbestos Packings, Catalog No. 101 (1906)
- Sold from: “SECTIONAL PIPE COVERINGS. ... "J-M" Air Cell.”, p. 473
J-M Products and Their Uses
- Description: “Corrugated Asbestos paper with the channels running lengthwise. A light cellular covering ... For medium and low pressure steam and hot water pipes.”, p. 664
Kind of product
We list Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermo Fire Felt · Thermowrap · Train Pipe Covering · Vitribestos · Vitro Fire Felt · White Surface Asbestos Jacket · Zerogloss · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-metallic · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt Covering · Asbestos Air Chamber Covering · Asbestos and Hair Felt Removable Covering · Asbestos Combination Spiral Pipe Insulation · and 40 more on the company's page
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (216)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · 85 Magnesia (Philip Carey) · 85% Magnesia (Armstrong Cork) · 85% Magnesia (Eagle-Picher) · 85% Magnesia (Pabco Products) · Acoa (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Air Cell (GAF) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Aircel (Nicolet) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Atlas Turner) · Aircell (Crown Cork & Seal) · Aircell (Gaf/Ruberoid) · Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircell (Nicolet) · Aircell (Standard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulating) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · 106B Millboard · 106H · 106H Asbestos Millboard · 219 Asbestos Millboard · 219 Millboard · 85 Magnesia · Ace Corspan · American Colonial · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestoboard · Asbestobord · Asbestocite · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · Asbestos Ebony · and 99 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Acousteel (Celotex) · Acousti-celotex (Celotex) · Agedroc (Atlas Asbestos) · Agedroc AO (Atlas Asbestos) · Agedroc MS (Atlas Asbestos) · Air Cell (GAF) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Duct (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircell (Nicolet) · Allstate (Sears) · Alumco (American Lumber Company) · Amberlite Packing (Keasbey & Mattison) · American Thatch (GAF) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Johns-Manville on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (January 1, 1920), pp. 26, 40.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 99.
- H. W. Johns-Manville Co.: "J-M" Asbestos Packings, Catalog No. 101 (January 1, 1906), p. 47.
- J-M Products and Their Uses, p. 66.
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