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Jewett (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Jewett (Johns-Manville) as “moulded asbestos ring packing for rods and valve stems, moulded from a thoroughly lubricated asbestos fabric”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

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

H. W. Johns-Manville Co.: "J-M" Asbestos Packings, Catalog No. 101 (1906)

  • Description: “moulded asbestos ring packing for rods and valve stems, moulded from a thoroughly lubricated asbestos fabric”, p. 241

Asbestos Magazine, 1930, September 1930

  • Made at: “Jewett Ring presses in the old Brooklyn factory”, p. 162

Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (1923)

  • Description: “Made of asbestos, cotton or flax yarn (according to style and service); Style No. 10 of wire-inserted asbestos yarn around a thin lead ribbon”, p. 733

The J-M Circle, 1929, August–September 1929

  • Use: “one million Jewett rings for standard equipment on brass plumbing goods” (sales to Price-Pfister Brass Manufacturing Company, Inc.), said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by The J-M Circle (employee magazine), p. 54

Johns-Manville Packings (1941)

  • Ingredient: “long-fibre asbestos yarn containing a fine copper wire insertion, braided over a thin lead ribbon core, graphited”, p. 295
  • Use: “heavy duty service against crude and heavy oils, tar, molasses; steam; fresh or salt water; air, gas and some chemicals”, p. 295
  • Description: “asbestos yarn in a packing material” (as of 1953), p. 876

Kind of product

We list Jewett (Johns-Manville) with cloth, tape and other textiles and gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.

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

Min-k · Thermobestos pipe covering · Thermomat · Thermotape · Thermowrap · Chemtite · Colorbestos · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tape · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tubing · Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing · 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) · MX 5385 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) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Industrial No. 200-14 (Industrial Glove) · Industrial No. 225-14 (Industrial Glove) · Inslgard (H. K. Porter) · Insulag (Quigley) · Jaxcolite (Jackson, Gordon C.) · JB 1000A (Elliot Glove) · John Bull (Elliott Glove) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Kamklad (Keasbey & Mattison) · Karnak (Lewis Asphalt Engineering) · Kay NM Tape (Keasbey & Mattison) · Kelnit (Keller Glove) · Laminglas (Facile) · Lion Trade Mark (James Walker & Co.) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

Other gaskets and packing by Johns-Manville (20)

Spirotallic · Centripac · 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) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Hallite (Hall & Hall) · Hi Heat Dum Dum (Mobil Chemical) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hopaco (Hollow Center Packing) · Hot Oil Superheat (Cincinnati Gasket Packing & Mfg.) · Hy-tensile (Nicolet) · Jointine Betabestos (Joinine Prpducts Company) · K & M 226 (Nicolet) · K & M 466 Sheet Packing (Nicolet) · K & M 801 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M Style 740 Hy-Swell (Nicolet) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · K68 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Kaobestos (F.D. Farnam) · and 171 more: all gaskets and packing

See also

References

  1. H. W. Johns-Manville Co.: "J-M" Asbestos Packings, Catalog No. 101 (January 1, 1906), p. 24.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, September 1930 (September 1, 1930), p. 16.
  3. Johns-Manville Service to Railroads (January 1, 1923), p. 73.
  4. The J-M Circle, 1929, August–September 1929 (August 1, 1929), p. 5.
  5. Johns-Manville Packings (January 1, 1941), p. 29.
  6. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 87. Not yet published in our library.

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