Documents in our library describe J-m Built-up Roof (Johns-Manville) as “built-up roof of asbestos felts mopped with pitch, under promenade tile over concrete decks”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
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Data sheet: Transite Insulated Roof (Johns-Manville) and 3 other products (1941)Data sheet or specification · ACL Doc 15249
Product photograph: Transite Insulated Roof and 3 other productsProduct photograph · ACL Doc 15187
Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about J-m Built-up Roof (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Slum Clearance Program: Specifications and Data on Various Building Materials (1938)
Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (1930)
- Use: “roofs on saw-tooth roof construction and large industrial plants”, p. 1252
The J-M Circle, 1929, February 1929
- Use: “roof over a concrete slab, recreation building, Pennsylvania State College” (sales to Pennsylvania State College), p. 153
The J-M Circle, 1930, November 1930
- Ingredient: “asphaltum surface; asbestos paper”, p. 54
Kind of product
We list J-m Built-up Roof (Johns-Manville) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Johns-Manville (89)
Min-k · Doublex · Thermomat · Firetard · Vitribestos · Engineers Insulating Tape · Fibroid · Fire Felt · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet · Gold-Line · High Strength Fibroid Asbestos Paper · High Temperature Flexible Min-k Blankets · Johns-Manville Jm · Long Fiber Asbestos Paper · Microbestos · Min-klad · Niagarite · Niagrite · No. 50 · Non Burn 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) · Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) · Herco (John Herman) · Homart (Sears) · Houservice (O'Neill Lumber Co.) · Hydrocord (Armstrong Cork) · Insubestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Insul-attic (Nicolet) · K & M 101 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M 104 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M 201 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · K-board (Nicolet) · K-Mat (Hammermill Paper Co. (Strathmore Paper Co. Div.)) · Kalfelt (Atlas Asbestos) · Kreuznacher Asbest-Werke Germany Theo & Geo Seitz (Seitz-Asbest Werke, Theo & Geo Seitz) · 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
- Slum Clearance Program: Specifications and Data on Various Building Materials (October 1, 1938), p. 233.
- Johns-Manville Service to the Iron and Steel Industry (January 1, 1930), p. 125.
- The J-M Circle, 1929, February 1929 (February 1, 1929), p. 15.
- The J-M Circle, 1930, November 1930 (November 1, 1930), p. 5.
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