Documents in our library describe Centripac (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos, cotton, fibrous, and metal machinery packings”.1 They give it as sold from 1929.1,2,3,4 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Centripac (Johns-Manville) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.
Label: CENTRIPAC Asbestos Packing (Johns-Manville)Label or package · ACL Doc 15004
Label: Centripac Asbestos Packing (Johns-Manville Corporation)Label or package · ACL Doc 20282
Label: Centripac asbestos packing, square plaited (Johns-Manville Corporation)Label or package · ACL Doc 20286
Label: Centripac Asbestos Packing, 1 lb. coil (Johns-Manville)Label or package · ACL Doc 20284
Asbestos claims
If you or a family member worked with or around Centripac (Johns-Manville) and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.
What each document says
Every statement about Centripac (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Label: Centripac Asbestos Packing (Johns-Manville Corporation), Image
Label: Centripac asbestos packing, square plaited (Johns-Manville Corporation), Image
Label: Centripac Asbestos Packing, 1 lb. coil (Johns-Manville), Image
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “packing for rods, plungers, valve stems” (as of 1953), p. 665
Label: CENTRIPAC Asbestos Packing (Johns-Manville)
- Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS PACKING”, p. 16
Kind of product
We list Centripac (Johns-Manville) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Johns-Manville (20)
Jewett · Spirotallic · Railroad Brake Shoes · Sea Ring Packing · Chempac · Chemstone · Mobilene Sheet Packing · No. 60 Service Sheet · 101 Mobilene Sheet · C Asbestos Millboard · Kearsarge · No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet · No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets · Superheat · Tadpole · Bellowseal · Cumpac · Goetze Metallic Gaskets · Locklube Packings · Style 869
Gaskets and packing by other makers (191)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Bison (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Black Mastite (Aberdeen Industries) · Bronco (Janos Industrial Insulation) · Bulldog (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · C.W. (Chicago Wilcox) · Cabcock (Unarco) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Chemlon (Crane Packing) · Chesco (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton 1000 (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton Packing Service (A. W. Chesterton) · Chesterton Sixty Four (A. W. Chesterton) · Cogasa (Rhopac) · Connectite (GAF) · and 171 more: all gaskets and packing
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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (June 6, 1931). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Centripac Asbestos Packing (Johns-Manville Corporation), Image.
- Label: Centripac asbestos packing, square plaited (Johns-Manville Corporation), Image.
- Label: Centripac Asbestos Packing, 1 lb. coil (Johns-Manville), Image.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 66. Not yet published in our library.
- Label: CENTRIPAC Asbestos Packing (Johns-Manville), p. 1.
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