Documents in our library describe Touch-Down (Kentile) as “hard surface floor coverings of vinyl, vinyl asbestos, and similar materials”.1 They give it as sold from 1969.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Touch-Down (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 1969-12-05”, said by KENTILE FLOORS INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “HARD SURFACE FLOOR COVERINGS OF VINYL, VINYL ASBESTOS, AND SIMILAR MATERIALS”, said by KENTILE FLOORS INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Touch-Down (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 · Debonair · Au Naturel · Chantilly · Corktone · Parkchester · Pavana · Ribandel · Sand Pebbles · Tanglewood · Terrazo Pastels · Textured Woodgrain · Travertine · Wedge-Stone · Woodgrain · Alcazar · Arch-Series · Architectural Criterion · Architectural Marbles · Au Natural · 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) · Sure-Stik (GAF) · Taza (Flintkote) · Terrazo Originals (Azrock Floor Products) · Thermafoam (Johns-Manville) · Thru Chip (GAF) · Tile-tex (Flintkote) · Tile-Tex Marbleized (Flintkote) · Travatex, Excelon (Armstrong Cork) · Travertine (American Biltrite Rubber) · Travertine (Armstrong Cork) · Travertine (Flintkote) · Travertine (GAF) · Travertine (Johns-Manville) · Tuff-Tex (Tile-Tex) · Venetian Marble (GAF) · 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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (January 7, 1970). Not yet published in our library.
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