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Fluid-Tite (Keasbey & Mattison)

Documents in our library describe Fluid-Tite (Keasbey & Mattison) as “exclusive "k&m" fluid-tite coupling is permanently watertight.”.1 They give it as sold from 1954.2,3,4 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Fluid-Tite (Keasbey & Mattison) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1959, January 1959

  • Description: “Exclusive "K&M" FLUID-TITE Coupling is permanently watertight.”, p. 51
  • Use: “"K&M" Asbestos-Cement Pressure Pipe with FLUID-TITE Coupling” (as of 1959), p. 51

Product: K&M Fluid-Tite asbestos-cement pressure pipe (Keasbey & Mattison Co.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: October 22, 1954”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT”, p. 12

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

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1954-10-25”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office3
  • Description: “Asbestos-Cement Pipes, Asbestos-Cement Bends, Asbestos-Cement Elbows, and Couplings and Fittings Used in Connection with Asbestos-Cement Pipes”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office3

Asbestos Magazine, 1957, December 1957

  • Sold from: “A new long-life asbestos-cement sewer pipe, which features a specially designed FLUID-TITE coupling was announced by Keasbey & Mattison Co.” (as of 1957), said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 144

Asbestos Magazine, 1958, September 1958

  • Use: “the stubs are machined on one end to receive K & M's FLUID-TITE coupling or connection with other sewer materials” (as of 1958), said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 305

Asbestos Magazine, 1961, February 1961

  • Use: “They've got a good joint with that FLUID-TITE Coupling” (as of 1961; sales to G&B Construction, Inc., Youngstown, O.), p. 26

Kind of product

We list Fluid-Tite (Keasbey & Mattison) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

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

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Keasbey & Mattison (33)

Century · 'Century' Apac · Ebonized Asbestos · Apac · Air-Duct · Uni-syn Packing · Aircell · Amberlite Packing · Apac Board · Asbestoroc · Chrom-Tex · Dualay · Industal · Industrial · K & M 103 · K & M 601 · K & M 801 · K & M Aircell · K&M Best in Asbestos · K&M Trafford Tile Asbestos Cement · and 13 more on the company's page

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (350)

Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Fire-chex 325 (Philip Carey) · Firefoil (Philip Carey) · Flat Transite (Johns-Manville) · Flexite (Johns-Manville) · Flintite (Flintkote) · Flintite (Orangeburg) · Fluid-Tite (CertainTeed) · Follansbee Terne (Follansbee Steel) · Formboard (Philip Carey) · Frycor (Owens-Corning) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) · Glatex (U.S. Gypsum) · Gold Bond (Asbestone) · and 330 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1959, January 1959 (January 1, 1959), p. 5.
  2. Product: K&M Fluid-Tite asbestos-cement pressure pipe (Keasbey & Mattison Co.), Image.
  3. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (January 27, 1959). Not yet published in our library.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1957, December 1957 (December 1, 1957), p. 14.
  5. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, September 1958 (September 1, 1958), p. 30.
  6. Asbestos Magazine, 1961, February 1961 (February 1, 1961), p. 2.

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