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Asbestos Fire Felt (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Asbestos Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) as “standard blocks 6"x36" and sheets 24"x36", 1/2" to 4" thick”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 1000 °F.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

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

Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (1920)

  • Form: “standard blocks 6"x36" and sheets 24"x36", 1/2" to 4" thick”, p. 381
  • Description: “made by felting and molding asbestos fibre into sheet or block form”, p. 381

Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (1930)

  • Temperature limit: “Temperatures to 1000 deg. F.”, p. 1062
  • Use: “surfaces that move or vibrate”, p. 1062
  • Description: “similar to Super Fire-Felt, but heavier with greater mechanical strength”, p. 1062

J-M Products and Their Uses

  • Form: “J-M Asbestos Fire-Felt Cement (insulating cement)”, p. 373
  • Description: “felt” (as of 1891-1962), p. 584

Kind of product

We list Asbestos Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) with insulating cement and coatings, asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and paper, felt and millboard, 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, Boilermakers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other insulating cement and coatings by Johns-Manville (51)

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (273)

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)

See also

References

  1. Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (January 1, 1920), p. 38.
  2. Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (January 1, 1930), p. 106.
  3. J-M Products and Their Uses (January 1, 1915), p. 37.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 58. Not yet published in our library.

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