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)
Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (1930)
J-M Products and Their Uses
- Form: “J-M Asbestos Fire-Felt Cement (insulating cement)”, p. 373
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- 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)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestile · 85 Magnesia · 302 · 450 Cement · 500 · 500 Cement · 678 Semi-refractory · 678 Semi-Refractory Cement · 85% Magnesia Cement · Asbestoment · Fibrofil · Fibrous Adhesive · Fil-insul · Fireite · Firetite Furnace Cement · Heat Treating Cement · Insulkote ET · Insulkote ST · and 31 more on the company's page
Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (273)
Prasco (Fibreboard) · Calsilite (GAF) · Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Super 66 (Eagle-Picher) · Asbestfalt (Metropolitan Greenhouse) · Asbestibel (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Asbestite (Belknap-Moran-Allen Co.) · Asbestocote (Asbesto Corp. of America) · Asbestolite M-44 (Monroe) · Asbestone (Johns-Manville) · Asbestone (National Gypsum) · Asbestoseal (Arthur's Company) · Asphalt Emulsion (Coopers Creek) · Asphalt Emulsion (Pittsburgh Chemical) · Asphalt Emulsion, Chemical Dispersion Type (Eagle-Picher) · Barret E22056 (Celotex) · Barret Roof (Celotex) · Beh No. 1 Plus (Baldwin-Ehret-Hill) · Black Plaster Finish (Bitucote) · and 253 more: all insulating cement and coatings
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestoboard · Asbestobord · Asbestocite · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt · Asbestos Ebony · Asbestos Fire Felt Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Millboard · Asbestos Paper and Rollboard · Asbestos Sheathing · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Asbestoside · C Asbestos Millboard · C Millboard · 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) · Asbestone (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Asbestone (National Gypsum) · Asbestone (R. J. Dorn) · Asbestone 400 (Asbestone) · Asbestone 400 (National Gypsum) · Asbestoroc (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Cement Siding and Roofing Shingles (Flintkote) · Asbestos Millboard (Celotex) · Asbestos Millboard (Gaf/Ruberoid) · Asbestos millboard (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Millboard (Ruberoid) · Asbestos Millboard Mb-1 (Nicolet) · Asbestos Permaboard (National Gypsum) · Asbestos Rollboard (Celotex) · Asbestos Rollboard (Philip Carey) · 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), p. 38.
- Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (January 1, 1930), p. 106.
- J-M Products and Their Uses (January 1, 1915), p. 37.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 58. Not yet published in our library.
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