Documents in our library describe No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets (Johns-Manville) as “kearsarge tube plate gaskets, made seamless and without a joint, woven into tubular form from strong, wire-inserted asbestos yarn, treated with heat-resisting compound, then folded to size and shape”.1 They give it as sold from 1941.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets (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. 791
- Asbestos content: “wire-inserted asbestos yarn”, p. 791
- Use: “particularly efficient when gaskets with a very narrow flange must be used; specify the make of boiler”, p. 791
- Description: “Kearsarge Tube Plate Gaskets, made seamless and without a joint, woven into tubular form from strong, wire-inserted asbestos yarn, treated with heat-resisting compound, then folded to size and shape”, p. 791
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “for tube plates” (as of 1953), p. 1292
Kind of product
We list No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets (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 · 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. 55 Cable Fireproofing Tape · Quinorgo R-4 · Quinterra 71 · Quinterra Type 3 · Super Temp-Tite · Superheat · Tadpole · Thermo-Chem · 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) · Lion Trade Mark (James Walker & Co.) · Litelag (Amatex) · Metalbest (Asberit S.A.) · Mule-Hide (Lehon) · Nicofil (Nicolet) · Nicolon (Nicolet) · No Dust (Consolidated Asbestos) · Noramite (Cape Asbestos) · Noramite (North American Asbestos) · Novabestos (Irvington) · Nu-Flex (Car-Mon Products) · Old Hickory (Industrial Gloves Company) · Palmetto Cabcock (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) · 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 · Kearsarge · No. 100 Kearsarge Sheet · 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. 79.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 129. Not yet published in our library.
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