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Debonair (Kentile)

Documents in our library describe Debonair (Kentile) as “floor tile made of vinyl asbestos or asphalt, or similar materials”.1 They give it as sold from 1967.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Pictures

How Debonair (Kentile) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.

What each document says

Every statement about Debonair (Kentile) in the documents, in each document's own words.

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

  • Sold from: “first used in commerce 1967-01-09”, said by KENTILE FLOORS INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “FLOOR TILE MADE OF VINYL ASBESTOS OR ASPHALT, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS”, said by KENTILE FLOORS INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Label: Kentile Debonair Vinyl Tile, Pavel Vaquero (Kentile Floors Inc.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: January 9, 1967”, said by Kentile Floors Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2

Labels: Kentile vinyl asbestos tile (Cobblesque, Rutland Slate, Agate Chip, Debonair)

  • Asbestos content: “VINYL ASBESTOS TILE; VINYL ASBESTOS TILE; VINYL ASBESTOS TILE”, p. 13

Kind of product

We list Debonair (Kentile) with floor tile, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Flooring Installers.

Other floor tile by Kentile (30)

Agate Chip · Au Naturel · Chantilly · Corktone · Marbleized · Architectural Marbles · Au Natural · Avanti · Beaushard · Beaux Arts · Brookstone · Constellation · Eerkshire · Federal Stone · Holland Tile · Moonstone · Parkchester · Pavana · Ribandel · Sand Pebbles · and 10 more on the company's page

Floor tile by other makers (168)

Excelon (some styles) (Armstrong Cork) · Terraflex (Johns-Manville) · Excelon (Armstrong Cork) · Marrakech (Johns-Manville) · Bouquet (Johns-Manville) · Corlon, Mantina (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Norager (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Pirelle (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Serenada (Armstrong Cork) · Corlon, Tessera (Armstrong Cork) · Cortina (Azrock Floor Products Div., Uvalde Rock Asphalt) · Custom Excelon Tile, Voltaire (Armstrong Cork) · Designer Solids (Flintkote) · Dominique (Congoleum) · Excelon Feature (Armstrong Cork) · Fashioncraft (GAF) · Fibre-Tuff (Malott & Peterson-Grundy) · Flex-Slate (Flintkote) · Flexachrome (Flintkote) · Flexchrome Marbleized (Flintkote) · and 148 more: all floor tile

See also

  • Kentile: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
  • Kentile on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (March 30, 1967). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Label: Kentile Debonair Vinyl Tile, Pavel Vaquero (Kentile Floors Inc.), Image.
  3. Labels: Kentile vinyl asbestos tile (Cobblesque, Rutland Slate, Agate Chip, Debonair), p. 1.

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