Documents in our library describe Sea Ring Packing (Johns-Manville) as “rod & plunger packing”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Sea Ring Packing (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “rod & plunger packing” (as of 1953), p. 1081
Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (1920)
- Use: “For packing rods and outside packed plungers against steam, water, air, brine and any other fluid that will not attack the materials used in constructing Sea Rings”, p. 592
The J-M Circle, 1930, November 1930
- Use: “Union Pacific lines adopt as standard J-M Sea Ring Packing for all water service equipment and power plants” (sales to Union Pacific Railroad), p. 153
Johns-Manville Packings (1941)
- Binder: “impregnated with heat and oil-resisting compounds ... then moulded under the proper temperature and pressure” (as of 1941), p. 164
- Asbestos content: “composed of laminated plies of high quality asbestos fabric or duck, or a combination of the two” (as of 1941), p. 164
- Use: “reciprocating rods and plungers; steam, hot or cold water, air, brine, vegetable and mineral oils, gasoline, kerosene” (as of 1941), p. 154
Kind of product
We list Sea Ring Packing (Johns-Manville) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Johns-Manville (20)
Jewett · Spirotallic · Centripac · Railroad Brake Shoes · 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) · Reinzolit (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Robot Packing (Armor Products) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Russo (A. W. Chesterton) · S (Herbert A. Greene) · Sceptre (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Sea-ro (Chester M. Roe) · Sea-Ro The Universal Packing (Chester M. Roe) · Sealion (James Walker & Co.) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · Silverbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Soruco (Southern Rubber Co.) · Spiroflex (Standco Industries) · 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. 108. Not yet published in our library.
- Johns-Manville Service to Power Users: Catalog No. 117, Second Edition (January 1, 1920), p. 59.
- The J-M Circle, 1930, November 1930 (November 1, 1930), p. 15.
- Johns-Manville Packings (January 1, 1941), p. 16.
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