Documents in our library describe K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) as “asbestos textiles, comprising asbestos thread, asbestos yarn, asbestos flat thread tapes, adapted for use in weaving cloth, and used in clothes manufacture”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1939, June 1939
- Description: “asbestos textiles, comprising asbestos thread, asbestos yarn, asbestos flat thread tapes, adapted for use in weaving cloth, and used in clothes manufacture”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Co., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 401
Asbestos Magazine, 1940, February 1940
- Description: “asbestos cements, asbestos papers, asbestos millboard, wool felt insulation, furnace coverings, asbestos boards, slabs, tiles, sheets and sidings, wallboards, pipe coverings, block insulation, asbestos lumber, magnesia insulation, composition boards, etc.”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 332
Asbestos Magazine, 1940, September 1940
- Description: “packings and gaskets such as rod, plunger, piston, asbestos gasketing, tapes, woven asbestos gasketing tapes, asbestos wick, asbestos rope, etc.”, said by Keasbey & Mattison Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 353
Kind of product
We list K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) with pipe covering and block insulation, asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, paper, felt and millboard, 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: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Keasbey & Mattison (12)
Duplex · Kay-Therm · 85 Magnesia · Best Felt · Hy Temp · Non-sweat · Aircell · Featherweight · K & M · K & M Aircell · Simplex Super Shrink · Zebra
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (264)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Insulation Seal 820 (Philip Carey) · Insutape (Unarco) · Insutape (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Insutube (Unarco) · Johns-Manville Jm (Johns-Manville) · Johns-Manville Transite Asbestos Wood (Johns-Manville) · Jurid (Kirchbach'Sche Werke Kirchbach & Co.) · K-12 Cal Sil (Combustion Engineering) · K-20 (Combustion Engineering) · K-fac (U.S. Gypsum) · K-fac 19 (U.S. Gypsum) · Kaiser M. (Combustion Engineering) · Kalfelt (Atlas Asbestos) · Kalsil (Atlas Asbestos) · Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) · and 244 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Keasbey & Mattison (33)
Century · 'Century' Apac · Ebonized Asbestos · Fluid-Tite · Apac · Dualay · Industal · Industrial · K & M 103 · K & M 601 · K & M 801 · K & M Aircell · K&M Trafford Tile Asbestos Cement · Kamflex · KolorMate · Linabestos · Linalbestos · Monobestos · No. 701 · Nu-Grain · 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.) · Hy-swell (Nicolet) · I-s (Owens-Corning) · If It'S Supradur It'S Supra-Durable! (Supradur) · Imperial (GAF) · Imperial Marinite (Johns-Manville) · Industrial A-c Board (Philip Carey) · Italit (Eternit, Inc.) · K-board (Nicolet) · Klingerpac (Klinger) · Kolormate (Nicolet) · Kon-x (Nicolet) · Korduct (Johns-Manville) · Linabestos (Asbestos Corp. of America) · Ludlite Paneling (Allegheny Ludlum Steel) · Magna-Tones (Supradur) · and 330 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Keasbey & Mattison: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Keasbey & Mattison on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1939, June 1939 (June 1, 1939), p. 40.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1940, February 1940 (February 1, 1940), p. 33.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1940, September 1940 (September 1, 1940), p. 35.
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