Documents in our library describe No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet (Johns-Manville) as “woven sheet packing, 1/32" to 1/4" thick in 48" wide rolls; also as cut gaskets”.1 They give it as sold from 1941.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Asbestos claims
If you or a family member worked with or around No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet (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 No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Packings (1941)
- Sold from: “in J-M's 1941 packings catalog”, p. 731
- Use: “on rough flanges against low, medium or high pressure steam, water and air”, p. 731
- Asbestos content: “asbestos yarn spun with brass wire”, p. 731
- Form: “woven sheet packing, 1/32" to 1/4" thick in 48" wide rolls; also as cut gaskets”, p. 731
- Description: “made of tightly twisted asbestos yarn spun with brass wire, woven into Asbesto-Metallic cloth and impregnated with a rubber heat-resisting compound”, p. 731
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “sheet gasketing with spun asbestos yarn” (as of 1953), p. 1292
Kind of product
We list No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Marinite 45 · Marinite 65 · Marrakech · Metal Veneered Marinite · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 500 · Molten Metal Marinite · No. 60 Service Sheet · Pallite · Permatone · Permatone S · Permatone “S” Flexboard · Quinterra 71 · Reeferite · Rentone · and 99 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Mill Board (Ruberoid) · Miraweld (Kaiser Refractories) · Monobestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Monobestos (Nicolet) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · Narro-Side (Supradur) · No. 1 Hard (Philip Carey) · No. 701 (Keasbey & Mattison) · Norbestos (Nicolet) · Nordeskafilt (Nordesk A Moskinfilt Aktiebologet) · Norriscell (Nicolet) · Nortex (Nicolet) · Novabestos Electricl (Irvington) · Nu Side (Nu Side) · Nu-Grain (Keasbey & Mattison) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
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 · Kearsarge · 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) · Mercedes Benz (Daimier-Benz Aktiengesellschaft) · Nicobestos (Nicolet) · Nicolam (Nicolet) · Nicosat (Nicolet) · Nicoseal (Nicolet) · Nicospec (Nicolet) · No Leak (Cincinnati Gasket Packing & Mfg.) · Pakmetal (F.D. Farnam) · Palmetto (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Palmetto Cabcock (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Palmetto Cutno (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Palmetto Plastic (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Palmetto Super Sheet (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Pamco (Phoenix Gasket & Packing) · Panacea (Prince Rubber Company) · 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
- Johns-Manville Packings (January 1, 1941), p. 73.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 129. Not yet published in our library.
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