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Ring-Tite (Johns-Manville)

Documents in our library describe Ring-Tite (Johns-Manville) as “j-m's machined, ring-tite® coupling. rubber rings, seated in machined grooves of the coupling, grip machined pipe ends”.1 They give it as sold from 1948.2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Ring-Tite (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Johns-Manville: Above ground: clear, clean water. Below ground: J-M corrosion-resistant water pipe (1968)

  • Description: “J-M's machined, Ring-Tite® coupling. Rubber rings, seated in machined grooves of the coupling, grip machined pipe ends”, p. 11

USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1948-12-02”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
  • Description: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT PIPE COUPLINGS”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2

Asbestos Magazine, 1953, December 1953

  • Sold from: “Ring-Tite, a new coupling developed by Johns-Manville for use with Transite pressure pipe”, p. 83

Asbestos Magazine, 1955, January 1955

  • Description: “pre-assembled Ring-Tite Coupling: a sleeve of TRANSITE containing three rubber rings, for TRANSITE Building Sewer Pipe”, p. 204

Asbestos Magazine, 1958, July 1958

  • Description: “the RING-TITE is made by Johns-Manville (registered trade mark)”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company (R. A. Schneider, Director, Technical Development), as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 265

J-M News Pictorial, 1962, May 1962

  • Use: “J-M "Ring-Tite" couplings ... connect sections of "Transite" asbestos-cement pressure pipe for water and sewer systems and industrial uses” (as of 1962), p. 106
  • Description: “asbestos-cement pipe covering”, p. 1057

Kind of product

We list Ring-Tite (Johns-Manville) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by Johns-Manville (60)

Thermobestos · Superex · Asbestocel · 85 Magnesia · Thermobestos pipe covering · Magno · Marinite · Min-k 1301 · Min-k 2000 · Min-k 500 · National Sectional Covering · Perfection Pipe Covering · Safety Blow-Off Covering · Silicated Thermobestos · Sonite · Standard Sectional Covering · Super Fire Felt · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · Superex-m · 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) · Precision-molded (Mundet Cork) · Precision-molded (Philip Carey) · PV Supertemp Block (Eagle-Picher) · Pyro-bestos (U.S. Gypsum) · Pyrocal (Fibreboard) · Pyrocal (PPG Industries) · Rigid Block Insulation (U.S. Gypsum) · Ru-ber-oid Watson (Ruberoid) · Rutland Repair Products Ricky Rutland (Rutland Fire Clay Co.) · Rwl-100 (H. K. Porter) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Sal-mo Sixcell (Nicolet) · Sal-mo Woolfelt (Nicolet) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Simplex (Atlas Turner) · and 196 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)

Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · Permatone · Permatone S · Permatone “S” Flexboard · Quinterra 71 · Reeferite · Rentone · Ridge Roll · Rock Shake · Rockspan Clapboard · Salem · Submarine Bulkhead · Super Fire Felt · Super Temp-Tite · Superex 2000 · Superex-1900 · 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) · Promenade Tile (Keasbey & Mattison) · Pyro-bestos (U.S. Gypsum) · Pyroboard (Keene/Ehret) · Qasal (Champion International) · Ranch Style (National Gypsum) · Resistal (Keasbey & Mattison) · Resistal (Nicolet) · Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Roctone (Tilo Roofing) · Roll Board (Philip Carey) · Roll Board (Ruberoid) · Rubestos (Ruberoid) · Ruco (maker not given) · Rustic Shakes (Philip Carey) · Sbr (Nicolet) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. Johns-Manville: Above ground: clear, clean water. Below ground: J-M corrosion-resistant water pipe (October 1, 1968), p. 1.
  2. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (February 17, 1949). Not yet published in our library.
  3. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, December 1953 (December 1, 1953), p. 8.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1955, January 1955 (January 1, 1955), p. 20.
  5. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, July 1958 (July 1, 1958), p. 26.
  6. J-M News Pictorial, 1962, May 1962 (May 1, 1962), p. 10.
  7. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 105. Not yet published in our library.

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