Documents in our library describe Hy-tensile (Nicolet) as “asbestos rubber sheet packing”.1 They give it as sold from 1968.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Hy-tensile (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 Hy-tensile (Nicolet) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Kind of product
We list Hy-tensile (Nicolet) 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 Nicolet (12)
Sal-mo · Kon-x · 580 · Asbestos · Nicobestos · Nicolam · Nicosat · Nicoseal · Nicospec · K & M 226 · K & M 466 Sheet Packing · K & M Style 740 Hy-Swell
Gaskets and packing by other makers (199)
Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Centripac (Johns-Manville) · Graphlon C (Marlo Corporation) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Hallite (Hall & Hall) · Hi Heat Dum Dum (Mobil Chemical) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hopaco (Hollow Center Packing) · Hot Oil Superheat (Cincinnati Gasket Packing & Mfg.) · Jointine Betabestos (Joinine Prpducts Company) · K & M 801 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K&M Best in Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · K68 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Kaobestos (F.D. Farnam) · Kearsarge (Johns-Manville) · Kearsarge Asbestos (H. W. Johns Manufacturing) · Klinger Acidit (Klinger) · and 179 more: all gaskets and packing
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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (March 13, 1968). Not yet published in our library.
- Label: Hy-Tensile asbestos rubber sheet packing (Nicolet Industries Inc.), Image.
Cite this page
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