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Asbestos Fire Felt Covering (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Asbestos Fire Felt Covering (Johns-Manville) as “sections 3 ft. long, 1" to 3" thick, with canvas jacket and brass lacquered bands”.1 They give it as made 1891–1971.2 They put its asbestos content at 41% to 61.5%.2 The asbestos named is chrysotile. It was rated for temperatures up to 1000 °F.3 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 Covering (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (1923)

  • Use: “pipes conveying steam at unusually high temperatures, hot oil lines, gas engine exhaust lines; inner layer under Asbesto-Sponge Felted”, p. 261
  • Description: “asbestos fibre felted together and molded into sections”, p. 261
  • Form: “sections 3 ft. long, 1" to 3" thick, with canvas jacket and brass lacquered bands”, p. 261

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

  • Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1891”, p. 1032
  • Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1032
  • Form: “Pipe Insulation”, p. 1032
  • Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1971 - 1975”, p. 1032
  • Asbestos content: “41.0 - 61.5 % fiber by weight”, p. 1032
  • Form: “listed under SECTIONAL PIPE INSULATION”, p. 722

Johns-Manville Insulation in Industry (c. 1942)

  • Temperature limit: “Temperature limit 1000 deg. F.”, p. 73

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

  • Description: “asbestos fibre, felted and moulded into sections; for considerable vibration”, p. 1114

Kind of product

We list Asbestos Fire Felt Covering (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)

Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · 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 · Asbestos Fire Felt Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Hair Felt Covering · Asbestos Molded Blocks · Asbestos Moulded Sectional Covering · Asbestos Sectional Covering · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Celite · Champion Sectional Covering · 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) · Alumino (Keene/Ehret) · Anti-sweat (Keene/Ehret) · Anti-Sweat (Mundet Cork) · Anti-sweat (Nicolet) · Anti-Sweat (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos Co.) · Armstrong LT Cork Coatings (Armstrong Cork) · Asbeston (U.S. Rubber) · Asbestos Paper (Celotex) · Asbestos Paper (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Sponge (Mundet Cork) · Asbestos Sponge (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Sponge Felt (Nicolet) · Asbestos Sponge Felt (Ruberoid) · Atlasite (Atlas Asbestos) · Best Felt (Armstrong Cork) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

See also

References

  1. Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (January 1, 1923), p. 26.
  2. Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 103.
  3. Johns-Manville Insulation in Industry (January 1, 1942), p. 7.
  4. Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (January 1, 1930), p. 111.

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