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Asbestica (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Asbestica (Johns-Manville) as “cable fireproofing tape”.1 They give it as made 1948–1982.2 They put its asbestos content at 80% to 85%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Asbestica (Johns-Manville) 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 1951-01-17”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE COARPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “CABLE FIREPROOFING TAPE”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE COARPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

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

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1948”, p. 1002
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1982”, p. 1002
  • Asbestos content: “% Fiber by Weight: 80.0 - 85.0”, p. 1002
  • Asbestos fiber: “Fiber Type: Chrysotile”, p. 1002

C. H. Stevens to W. C. Seeds on Dust Collection in the Manville A Building (1955)

  • Made at: “asbestica tape loom, "A" Building (Manville)”, p. 43
  • Description: “silica-impregnated asbestos tape” (as of 1967), p. 564

Kind of product

We list Asbestica (Johns-Manville) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.

Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Johns-Manville (73)

Min-k · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermomat · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Aaa Grade Asbestos Cloth · Aaa Grade Asbestos Tape · Aaa Grade Asbestos Tubing · Aaaa Grade Asbestos Cloth · Aaaa Grade Asbestos Tape · American Colonial · Armaturo Asbestos Tape · Asbestica Tape · Asbestos Cloth · Asbestos Listing · Asbestos Paper Tape · Asbestos Rope · Asbestos Tape · Asbestos Yarn · Besto-Tak · and 53 more on the company's page

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (228)

Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Insutape (Unarco) · Novatex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Amosite Cloth (Unarco) · AO Thermogarb (American Optical) · Apg Hewitt (Allied Polymer Group) · Applon A Tfe (Applied Plastics) · Applon T Tfe (Applied Plastics) · Asbestall (U.S. Rubber) · Asbestall (Uniroyal) · Asbeston (U.S. Rubber) · Asbeston (Uniroyal) · Asbeston Style S/6555 (U.S. Rubber) · Asbeston Style S/799A (U.S. Rubber) · Asbestos (J. P. Stevens) · Asbestos Cloth (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Cloth (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Keasbey & Mattison) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (February 7, 1951). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (January 1, 1989), p. 100.
  3. C. H. Stevens to W. C. Seeds on Dust Collection in the Manville A Building (May 2, 1955), p. 4.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 56. Not yet published in our library.

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