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Blastape (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Blastape (Johns-Manville) as “a unique asbestos inconel tape”.1 They give it as sold from 1960.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

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

Asbestos Magazine, 1963, December 1963

  • Use: “covering rocket erector system cables, umbilical cables, ground cables, lift-off switch cables, explosive bolt cables and vent lines”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 71
  • Description: “a unique asbestos Inconel tape”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 61

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1960-06-22”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
  • Description: “Protective Asbestos Tape for Missile Launching Equipment”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2

J-M News Pictorial, 1965, April 1965

  • Made at: “Blastape is made in our Manville plant” (as of 1965), p. 123
  • Use: “umbilical tube of the Gemini spacecraft ("Molly Brown")” (sales to Gemini spacecraft program), p. 123
  • Description: “asbestos-inconel tape” (as of 1963), p. 634

Kind of product

We list Blastape (Johns-Manville) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Johns-Manville (73)

Min-k · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermomat · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Asbestos Cloth · Asbestos Listing · Asbestos Paper Tape · Asbestos Rope · Asbestos Tape · Asbestos Yarn · Besto-Tak · Blastube · Ceilinite · Chempac · Chemtite · Colorbestos · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tape · and 53 more on the company's page

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (228)

Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Insutape (Unarco) · Novatex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Battleship (Keasbey & Mattison) · BB (British Belting & Asbestos) · Beldam'S Pilot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Bes-Var (Sun Chemical Co. (Electro-Technical Div.)) · Beswick (Atlas Asbestos) · Beswik (Atlas Asbestos) · Brapaco (Eureka Packing) · Brown Bag (Joneric Products) · Cablegard (Quin-T) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Carosel (U.S. Rubber) · Celoron (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Chevron Asbestos Roof Coating (Standard Oil of California) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1963, December 1963 (December 1, 1963), pp. 6–7.
  2. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (September 26, 1963). Not yet published in our library.
  3. J-M News Pictorial, 1965, April 1965 (April 1, 1965), p. 12.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 63. Not yet published in our library.

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