Documents in our library describe Carinsul (Johns-Manville) as “panel insulation, sheets 36" x 72" or 40" x 72", 1/4" and 1/2" thick”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Carinsul (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (1923)
- Description: “felted cattle hair insulation, burlap center, backed on either side with a special asbestos covering”, p. 971
- Ingredient: “special asbestos covering on either side”, p. 971
- Use: “steel passenger car insulation, back of the letterboard”, p. 971
- Form: “panel insulation, sheets 36" x 72" or 40" x 72", 1/4" and 1/2" thick”, p. 971
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “railroad passenger car insulations”, p. 652
Kind of product
We list Carinsul (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Asbestos Millboard · Asbestos Paper and Rollboard · Asbestos Sheathing · Asbestos Sponge (Felted, Sectional, Molded) · Asbestoside · C Asbestos Millboard · C Millboard · Cedargrain · Chemstone · Colorbestos · Colorceran · Colorchip · Colorlith · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · 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) · Bromley's Honor Pledge (George W. Bromley) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Careybesto-Board (Philip Carey) · Careyflex (Philip Carey) · Careysote (Philip Carey) · Careystone (Philip Carey) · Careystone Colonial Clapboard Siding (Philip Carey) · Cemesto (Celotex) · Cemesto Board (Celotex) · Cemesto Structural Insulating Panels (Celotex) · Century (Keasbey & Mattison) · Certa-Seal (CertainTeed) · China-Glaze (United States Gypsum) · Chrom-Tex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Chroma-Tex (Asbestone) · 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
- Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (January 1, 1923), p. 97.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 65. Not yet published in our library.
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