Documents in our library describe Kearsarge (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos cloth wrapped packing”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Kearsarge (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos cloth wrapped packing” (as of 1953), p. 891
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 252
- Made at: “Pittsburgh Plant (1926 to 1980s): Kearsarge” (at Pittsburgh) (the plant: Pittsburg, California), p. 252
Kind of product
We list Kearsarge (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 · Colorbestos Drapery · Commercial Grade Asbestos Cloth · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tape · Commercial Grade Asbestos Tubing · Duplex Rod and Plunger Packing · Jewett · Johns-Manville Jm · 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) · Niagarite · No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets · 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) · 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.) · Litelag (Amatex) · Metalbest (Asberit S.A.) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · Nicofil (Nicolet) · Nicolon (Nicolet) · and 208 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Other gaskets and packing by Johns-Manville (20)
Jewett · Spirotallic · Centripac · Railroad Brake Shoes · Sea Ring Packing · Chempac · Chemstone · Mobilene Sheet Packing · No. 60 Service Sheet · 101 Mobilene Sheet · C Asbestos Millboard · 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) · 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) · Kearsarge Asbestos (H. W. Johns Manufacturing) · Klinger Acidit (Klinger) · Klinger-Oilit (Klinger) · Klingerit (H.S. White) · Klingerit (Klinger) · Klingerit 400 Universal (maker not given) · Klingerit-1000 (Rich. Klinger Aktiengesellschaft) · Kon-x (Nicolet) · 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
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 89. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 25.
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