Documents in our library describe Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) as “spirotallic. ... for metal and asbestos gaskets.”.1 They give it as sold from 1938.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1936, March 1936
- Description: “Spirotallic. ... For metal and asbestos gaskets.”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), Trade Marks column (National Trade Mark Co.), p. 401
- Description: “metal and asbestos gaskets”, said by Johns-Manville Corp., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 401
Asbestos Magazine, 1938, August 1938
- Sold from: “A new type of gasket ... known as the Spirotallic Gasket, has been announced by Johns-Manville”, said by Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 402
Johns-Manville Packings (1941)
- Description: “A durable, resilient, corrosion-resistant gasket for high temperatures and high pressures on boiler handholes, manholes, tube plates, and pipe flanges”, p. 813
- Asbestos content: “cold-rolled cadmium-plated steel ... spirally wound over a mandrel with a strip of slightly wider asbestos paper in between”, p. 813
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “metal asbestos gaskets” (as of 1953), p. 1114
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
- Made at: “manufacturing facility located in North Brunswick, New Jersey from 1947 through 1975 ... Spirotallic Gaskets” (at North Brunswick Plant), p. 645
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “North Brunswick Plant products included: Spirotallic Gaskets” (at North Brunswick Plant), p. 256
Kind of product
We list Spirotallic (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, Boilermakers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Johns-Manville (20)
Jewett · 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 · 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) · 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) · Squeegee (Henrite Products) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Sterlbestos (Standco Industries) · Sterling Spiroflex (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Style 110 (Unarco) · Style 1105 (Unarco) · Style 1106 (Unarco) · 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
- Asbestos Magazine, 1936, March 1936 (March 1, 1936), p. 40.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1938, August 1938 (August 1, 1938), p. 40.
- Johns-Manville Packings (January 1, 1941), p. 81.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 111. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (January 1, 1989), p. 64.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (January 1, 1990), p. 25.
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