Documents in our library describe Asbestos Turbine Blanket (Johns-Manville) as “paper, felt, blankets”.1 They give it as made 1951–1977.1 They put its asbestos content at 98% to 99%.1 The asbestos named is amosite. It was rated for temperatures up to 1100 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Asbestos Turbine Blanket (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: 1951”, p. 1071
- Warning label: “Date Labeled: 1971”, p. 1071
- Asbestos fiber: “Amosite”, p. 1071
- Form: “Paper, Felt, Blankets”, p. 1071
- Made at: “Manville Plant, Manville, New Jersey (1913 through 1985): Asbestos Turbine Blanket” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 621
- Temperature limit: “wire inserted asbestos cloth for temperature exposure to 850 degrees F”, p. 781
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 621
- Made until: “Date Discontinued: 1977”, p. 1071
- Description: “Consists of high temperature felted mineral insulation fully enclosed in a wire inserted asbestos cloth ... or a stainless steel mesh”, p. 781
- Asbestos content: “98.0 - 99.0 % fiber by weight”, p. 1071
- Temperature limit: “a stainless steel mesh for temperatures from 850 degrees F to 1100 degrees F”, p. 781
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “blanket” (as of 1951), p. 592
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 223
- Made at: “Manville Plant (1913 to 1985): Asbestos Turbine Blanket” (at Manville) (the plant: Manville, New Jersey), p. 223
Kind of product
We list Asbestos Turbine Blanket (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Asbestos Lining Felt · Asbestos Locomotive Lagging · Asbestos Paper Tape · Asbestos Pipe Blanket · Asbestos Roll Fire Felt · Asbestos Sponge Felt · Asbestos Sponge Hair Felt · Asbestos Welding Paper · Blue Chip Asbestos Finishing Felt · Ceilinite · Cellamite · Centurian Base Felt · Coated Asbestos Base Felt · Cold Application Felt · Commercial Grade Asbestos Paper · and 69 more on the company's page
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (210)
Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Asbestos Felt Jacket, Asphalt Saturated (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Grapevine Finish Felt (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Paper (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Philip Carey) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Ruberoid) · Asbestos Sponge Felt (Ruberoid) · Asbestoseal (Celotex) · Asbestoseal (Philip Carey) · Aspaal M (Asahi Asbestos) · Aspaal M (Jujo Paper Mfg. Co. of Tokyo, Japan) · Aspaal W (Asahi Asbestos) · Asphalt Saturated Asbestos Felt (Flintkote) · Atco (American Tar) · Azkem (Harco Chemical) · and 190 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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), pp. 78, 107.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 59. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 22.
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