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Aircell (Nicolet)

Documents in our library describe Aircell (Nicolet) as “block, board and pipe covering”.1 They give it as sold from 1896.2 It was rated for temperatures up to 300 °F.1 The list marks “Aircell” as a generic term: a name several companies used for this kind of product, not one company's brand.3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Pictures

How Aircell (Nicolet) 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 Aircell (Nicolet) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)

  • Description: “Built up of alternating layers of plain and corrugated asbestos paper cemented together. Semi-rigid.”, p. 781
  • Form: “Block, Board and Pipe Covering”, p. 781
  • Temperature limit: “Atmos to 300”, p. 781
  • Asbestos content: “Asbestos Fiber (Air Cell)”, p. 781

Product photograph: Norristown Cellotone, Aircell and Wool Felt insulation cartons (Nicolet Industries, Inc.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: January 1, 1896”, said by Nicolet Industries, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Description: “GENERIC TERM”, p. 33
  • Form: “PIPECOVER,BLOCK”, p. 33
  • Description: “Aircell (listed, product not given)” (as of 1950), p. 524

Kind of product

We list Aircell (Nicolet) with pipe covering and block insulation and asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other pipe covering and block insulation by Nicolet (16)

Sal-mo · Hy-temp · Aircel · Anti-sweat · Kaytherm · Norwal · Simplex · V-dent · Asbestos Sponge Felt · Bestfelt · Multicell · Non-sweat · Sal-mo Sixcell · Sal-mo Woolfelt · Sixcell · Zebra

Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (260)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Atlas Turner) · Aircell (Crown Cork & Seal) · Aircell (Gaf/Ruberoid) · Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircell (Standard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulating) · Alba-cel (Keene) · Alltemp (Philip Carey) · Alumino (Keene/Ehret) · Anti-sweat (Johns-Manville) · Anti-sweat (Keene/Ehret) · Anti-Sweat (Mundet Cork) · Anti-Sweat (Norristown Magnesia & Asbestos Co.) · and 240 more: all pipe covering and block insulation

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Nicolet (13)

Sal-mo · Kolormate · Monobestos · Honeycomb · Hy-swell · Asbestos Millboard Mb-1 · K-board · Kon-x · Norbestos · Norriscell · Resistal · Nortex · Sbr

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (370)

Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Agedroc MS (Atlas Asbestos) · Air Cell (GAF) · Air Cell (Mundet Cork) · Air-Cell (Johns-Manville) · Air-Duct (Keasbey & Mattison) · Aircel (Philip Carey) · Aircell (Keasbey & Mattison) · Allstate (Sears) · Alumco (American Lumber Company) · Amberlite Packing (Keasbey & Mattison) · American Colonial (Johns-Manville) · American Thatch (GAF) · American Thatch (Ruberoid) · Anti-sweat (Johns-Manville) · Apac (Keasbey & Mattison) · and 350 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

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

References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 78.
  2. Product photograph: Norristown Cellotone, Aircell and Wool Felt insulation cartons (Nicolet Industries, Inc.), Image.
  3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 3.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 52. Not yet published in our library.

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