Documents in our library describe Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) as “packings & friction materials division manufactures ... railroad brake shoes”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
J-M News Pictorial, 1970, May–June 1970
- Description: “Packings & Friction Materials division manufactures ... railroad brake shoes” (as of 1970), p. 141
Asbestos Magazine, 1979, February 1979
- Ingredient: “friction composition for forming railroad brake shoes: about 29 parts phenolic resin binder, 41 parts of asbestos, 6 parts carbon black, 0.6 part silicon carbide”, said by Johns-Manville Corporation (assignee; inventor H. J. Reynolds, Jr.), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 622
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Laurinburg Plant (1965 to 1980s): Railroad Brake Shoes” (at Laurinburg) (the plant: Laurinburg, North Carolina), p. 213
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 213
Kind of product
We list Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) with gaskets and packing and brakes and friction materials, 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, Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Other gaskets and packing by Johns-Manville (20)
Jewett · Spirotallic · Centripac · 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) · Pitseal (Hermetic Materials) · Pivot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Plastic (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Powerite (Argo Asbestos & Rubber) · Pucaro (Presspan-Fabrik Chr. Authenrieth) · Pyroid (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M E-66 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Mastite (Aberdeen Industries) · Reinz-Repa (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinz-Super-Spezial (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinzolit (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Robot Packing (Armor Products) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · and 171 more: all gaskets and packing
Other brakes and friction materials by Johns-Manville (3)
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (73)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Permafuse (S. G. Tilden) · Pioneer Asbestos (Floyd R. Biggs) · R-m (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M R-2854-B (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M R-3672-3 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M US 98 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Railko (Small & Parkes) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rayman (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Demon (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Safetybestos (Bondall) · Servbestos (Thermoid Rubber) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) · and 53 more: all brakes and friction materials
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
- J-M News Pictorial, 1970, May–June 1970 (May 1, 1970), p. 14.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1979, February 1979 (February 1, 1979), p. 62.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 21.
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