Documents in our library describe Klinger-Oilit (Klinger) as “joints and packings in the nature of sheets; ready shaped joints and packings; joints and packings made with asbestos and fillers and plastic binders, and resistant to oils, fluids, greases, solvents, and carbohydrates”.1 They give it as sold from 1953.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Klinger-Oilit (Klinger) looked: a label, photograph or catalog page 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 Klinger-Oilit (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 1953-11-24”, said by ASTAG A. G., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “Joints and Packings in the Nature of Sheets; Ready Shaped Joints and Packings; Joints and Packings Made with Asbestos and Fillers and Plastic Binders, and Resistant to Oils, Fluids, Greases, Solvents, and Carbohydrates”, said by ASTAG A. G., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Label: Klinger-Oilit (Astag A.G. / Klinger A.G.), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: November 24, 1953”, said by Astag A.G., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Kind of product
We list Klinger-Oilit (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 801 (Keasbey & Mattison) · 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) · and 189 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (September 1, 1959). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Klinger-Oilit (Astag A.G. / Klinger A.G.), Image.
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