Documents in our library describe Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) as “sheet/block”.1 They give it as made 1902–1915.1 The asbestos named is chrysotile.
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What each document says
Every statement about Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made from: “Date Manufactured: 1902”, p. 1051
- Asbestos fiber: “Chrysotile”, p. 1051
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1915 - 1925”, p. 1051
- Form: “Sheet/Block”, p. 1051
- Use: “particularly adapted for marine work, or wherever a light weight insulation may be required”, p. 701
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: None”, p. 1051
- Description: “A special grade of insulation”, p. 701
Kind of product
We list Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, 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, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Vitro Fire Felt · White Surface Asbestos Jacket · Zerogloss · Air-Cell · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-metallic · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestos "Navy Brand" Fire Felt Covering · Asbestos Air Chamber Covering · Asbestos and Hair Felt Removable Covering · Asbestos Combination Spiral Pipe Insulation · Asbestos Fire Felt Covering · Asbestos Fire Felt Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Hair Felt Covering · Asbestos Molded Blocks · 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
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Air-Cell · American Colonial · Anti-sweat · Asbesto-sponge · Asbestoboard · Asbestobord · Asbestocite · Asbestos Ebony · Asbestos Fire Felt · Asbestos Fire Felt Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Millboard · Asbestos Paper and Rollboard · Asbestos Sheathing · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Asbestoside · 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 (British Uralite) · 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) · 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
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (December 7, 1989), p. 105.
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