Documents in our library describe Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood (Johns-Manville) as “fireproof non heat conducting materials composed of asbestos fiber and hydraulic cement in sheets,strips, and blocks.”.1 They give it as sold from 1900.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1900-02-01”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE,INCORPORATED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “FIREPROOF NON HEAT CONDUCTING MATERIALS COMPOSED OF ASBESTOS FIBER AND HYDRAULIC CEMENT IN SHEETS,STRIPS, AND BLOCKS.”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE,INCORPORATED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)
Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Fibrocel · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · Fire Felt · Firetard · High Temperature Insulation · Indented · Johns-Manville Jm · Magno · Marinite · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 2000 · Min-k 500 · National Sectional Covering · Perfection Pipe Covering · Ring-Tite · and 40 more on the company's page
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (216)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Imperial (GAF) · Imperial Pipe Covering (Ruberoid) · Impervo (Philip Carey) · Insulation Seal 820 (Philip Carey) · Insutape (Unarco) · Insutape (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Insutube (Unarco) · Jurid (Kirchbach'Sche Werke Kirchbach & Co.) · K & M (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · K-12 Cal Sil (Combustion Engineering) · K-20 (Combustion Engineering) · K-fac (U.S. Gypsum) · K-fac 19 (U.S. Gypsum) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
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) (March 21, 1923). Not yet published in our library.
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“Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood (Johns-Manville).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/johns-manville-johns-manville-transite-asbestos-wood.
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