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Akoustikos Felt (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Akoustikos Felt (Johns-Manville) as “rolls of approximately 160 sq. ft., in 1/4", 1/2", 3/4" and 1" thicknesses; die-cut shapes on special order”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Akoustikos Felt (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Slum Clearance Program: Specifications and Data on Various Building Materials (1938)

  • Ingredient: “made of asbestos fibre and specially selected hair”, p. 4331
  • Form: “rolls of approximately 160 sq. ft., in 1/4", 1/2", 3/4" and 1" thicknesses; die-cut shapes on special order”, p. 4331

Asbestos Magazine, 1938, April 1938

  • Use: “mechanical equipment quieting (air-conditioning equipment, unit coolers and similar appliances); office machinery; ventilating duct work”, p. 142
  • Description: “a punched felt of asbestos fibres and especially selected hair; a flexible sound-absorbent”, p. 142
  • Description: “acoustic insulator” (as of 1953), p. 523

Kind of product

We list Akoustikos Felt (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

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

Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · #50 Asbestos Weatherproofing Felt · 12# Asbestos Tape · 15A Asbestos Jacket · 45A Asbestos Jacket · 50 Weatherproofing · 770 Coated Asbestos Jacket · 7700 Coated Jacket · Amber Loklube Style 1009A · Aqua Covering · Armaturo Asb Paper · Arp-40 · Asbestocel Paper · Asbestogard · Asbestogard Felt · Asbestos and Hair Woven Felt · 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) · 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Abestine (International Pulp) · Air Vent (GAF) · Air Vent (Ruberoid) · Air Vent Asphalt Felt (GAF) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Fibreboard) · Alfol No. 101 (Corrugated) (Reflectal Corporation) · Alfol No. 102 (Flat) (Reflectal Corporation) · Alfol No. 103 (Flat) (Reflectal Corporation) · Alumco (American Lumber Company) · Alumino (Keene/Ehret) · Amberlite (Keasbey & Mattison) · Ambestos Felt (Unarco) · Amoside Felt (Unarco) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard

See also

References

  1. Slum Clearance Program: Specifications and Data on Various Building Materials (July 1, 1937), p. 433.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1938, April 1938 (April 1, 1938), p. 14.
  3. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 52. Not yet published in our library.

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