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Fireguard (Philip Carey)

Documents in our library describe Fireguard (Philip Carey) as “fire-guard vapor barrier encasing one side of fire-guard batt blankets (home insulation)”.1 They give it as made 1950–1972.2,3 They put its asbestos content at 85%.2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Fireguard (Philip Carey) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953

  • Sold from: “recently announced ... now producing Fire-Guard Batt Blankets (May 1953)”, said by Philip Carey Mfg. Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 501
  • Description: “Fire-Guard vapor barrier encasing one side of Fire-Guard Batt Blankets (home insulation)”, said by Philip Carey Mfg. Company, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 501

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

  • Made from: “50”, p. 52
  • Asbestos content: “85”, p. 52
  • Description: “CELOTEX AFTER 1972”, p. 52
  • Made until: “72”, p. 52

Celotex's Answers to Plaintiff's Master Interrogatories in Laird v. Celotex (1984)

  • Made from: “1950”, p. 443
  • Made until: “1976 (lastly under Celotex name)”, p. 443
  • Asbestos content: “85% Asbestos, 15% asphalt”, p. 443
  • Ingredient: “15% asphalt”, p. 443

Kind of product

We list Fireguard (Philip Carey) with paper, felt and millboard, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Other paper, felt and millboard by Philip Carey (31)

Aircel · Excel · Carey Duct · Defendex · Fireclad · Black Top Asbestos · Carey · Carocel · Double Sanded Asbestos · Fiberock · Fiberock Asbestos Felt · Fiberock Cap Sheet · Fireguard Jacketing · Grosscell · No. 15 Fiberock · No. 15 Tar Fiberock · No. 30 Fiberock · No. 35 Fiberock · No. 45 Fiberock · No. 55 Fiberock · and 11 more on the company's page

Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (268)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · E-p (Eagle-Picher) · Engineers Insulating Tape (Johns-Manville) · Fibroid (Johns-Manville) · Filawound (Spaulding Fibre) · Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Fireclad (Celotex) · Firefly 800 (TBA Industrial Products, Turner & Newall) · Firetard (Johns-Manville) · Flamegard (H. K. Porter) · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet (Johns-Manville) · Florobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Foil Laminates (Nicolet) · Fosterite Asbestos (Westinghouse) · Frost-Proof Pipe Covering (GAF) · and 248 more: all paper, felt and millboard

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 50.
  2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 5.
  3. Celotex's Answers to Plaintiff's Master Interrogatories in Laird v. Celotex (January 1, 1984), p. 44.

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