Documents in our library describe Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing (Johns-Manville) as “flax and rubber material; woven flax yarn cover, layers of rubber cement, rubber core”.1 They give it as sold from 1901.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
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Asbestos claims
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What each document says
Every statement about Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (1920)
Label: Duplex rod and plunger packing, Style 373 Spiral (Johns-Manville Corporation), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: 1901”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Kind of product
We list Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing (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 · Chempac · Chemtite · Colorbestos · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tape · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tubing · Jewett · Johns-Manville Jm · Kearsarge · Model X-250 Expansion Joint · MX 4851 (Aluminized) Cloth (Coated) · MX 5184 Cloth (Coated) · MX 5215 Cloth (Coated) · MX 5243 Cloth (Coated) · 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) · Clarex-lageeze (Claremont Industries) · Cleangard (H. K. Porter) · Coldfinger (Scandura) · Coronado Line (O.K.I. Supply) · Covergard (H. K. Porter) · Covergard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Dilecto (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Dura Sleeve (General Plastics) · Eleven-thirty-three (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Emalfon (Singer Glove) · Etnatex (Duplan) · Filawound (Spaulding Fibre) · Flamegard (H. K. Porter) · Flamegard (Southern Asbestos) · Flamemaster (Atlas Textile) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
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
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