Documents in our library describe Klingerit (Klinger) as “high pressure packings in [ plates ] * sheets * , rings, and [ from ] * form * pieces, consisting of asbestos, [ ligaments ] * binders * , or metal or compounds of these [ three ] materials, for sealing of steam, liquid, and gases”.1 They give it as sold from 1916.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Klingerit (Klinger) 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.
Product sheet: Klingerit gasket material (Istag A.G. / Klinger A.G.)Product photograph · ACL Doc 20768
Label: Klingerit 1000 (Istag A.G. / Klinger A.G.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20426
What each document says
Every statement about Klingerit (Klinger) 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 1916”, said by ISTAG A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1933”, said by ISTAG A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “HIGH PRESSURE PACKINGS IN [ PLATES ] * SHEETS * , RINGS, AND [ FROM ] * FORM * PIECES, CONSISTING OF ASBESTOS, [ LIGAMENTS ] * BINDERS * , OR METAL OR COMPOUNDS OF THESE [ THREE ] MATERIALS, FOR SEALING OF STEAM, LIQUID, AND GASES”, said by ISTAG A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “HIGH PRESSURE PACKINGS IN PLATES,RINGS,AND FORM PIECES, CONSISTING OF ASBESTOS, LIGAMENTS,OR METAL OR COMPOUNDS OF THESETHREE MATERIALS, FOR SEALING OF STEAM, LIQUID, AND GASES,”, said by ISTAG A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Product sheet: Klingerit gasket material (Istag A.G. / Klinger A.G.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: 1916”, said by Istag A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Label: Klingerit 1000 (Istag A.G. / Klinger A.G.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: 1933”, said by Istag A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
Kind of product
We list Klingerit (Klinger) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Klinger (2)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (209)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · K & M Style 740 Hy-Swell (Nicolet) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · K68 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Kaobestos (F.D. Farnam) · Kearsarge (Johns-Manville) · Kearsarge Asbestos (H. W. Johns Manufacturing) · Klingerit (H.S. White) · Klingerit 400 Universal (maker not given) · Klingerit-1000 (Rich. Klinger Aktiengesellschaft) · Kon-x (Nicolet) · Kormetal (F.D. Farnam) · Krespac (Charles Laurence Willis) · Lascar (Beldam Asbestos Company) · Lighthouse (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Lion Trade Mark (James Walker & Co.) · and 189 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (August 14, 1963). Not yet published in our library.
- Product sheet: Klingerit gasket material (Istag A.G. / Klinger A.G.), Image.
- Label: Klingerit 1000 (Istag A.G. / Klinger A.G.), Image.
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