Documents in our library describe Superheat (Johns-Manville) as “spiral form, style no. s-167; coil form, style no. c-167; ring form, style no. r-167”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 750 °F.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Superheat (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Johns-Manville Packings (1941)
- Asbestos content: “tightly woven pure asbestos cloth”, p. 211
- Form: “spiral form, Style No. S-167; coil form, Style No. C-167; ring form, Style No. R-167”, p. 211
- Description: “J-M Superheat Steam Rod Packing, Style No. 167 — a resilient, high quality packing for use against superheated steam on rods, plungers and valve stems”, p. 211
- Temperature limit: “high temperature steam between 500° F. and 750° F.”, p. 211
- Ingredient: “impregnated with a special heat-resistant lubricant and graphited”, p. 211
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos cloth packing” (as of 1953), p. 1142
Kind of product
We list Superheat (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 · Niagarite · No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets · No. 55 Cable Fireproofing Tape · Quinorgo R-4 · Quinterra 71 · Quinterra Type 3 · Super Temp-Tite · Tadpole · Thermo-Chem · Thermo-Pac · Thermo-Pac 2700 · Thermoflex · Underwriter's Grade Asbestos Cloth · Underwriter's Grade Asbestos Tape · Underwriter's Grade Asbestos Tubing · 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) · Stella (Charles Laurence Willis) · Stik-On (York Industries) · Style 1030 (H. K. Porter) · Style 2844 (H. K. Porter) · Style 5621 Asbestos Wick (H. K. Porter) · Style A11P16G (Amatex) · Supercote (Garland) · Superinsutape (Unarco) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tadpole (H. K. Porter) · Tadpole (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Tanpac (A. W. Chesterton) · Tba "T" Range (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Terrybestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Tex-Knit (maker not given) · 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 · No. 118 Kearsarge Gaskets · 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) · Style 193 (Unarco) · Style 350 (Unarco) · Summit (AMG) · Supa Sca (Charles Laurence Willis) · Super Cutno (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Super X (Chicago Wilcox) · Superbestos (Chambers Gasket & Mfg.) · Superpax (William R. C. Windsor) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tanpac (A. W. Chesterton) · Target (Anchor Packing) · Tuffoid (Rudolph Orlob) · Unarco (Unarco) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Uni Syn Style No. 239 (Keasbey & Mattison) · 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. 21.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 114. Not yet published in our library.
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