Documents in our library describe Rustic Shakes (Philip Carey) as “strip shingles of asbestos composition which, when laid on a roof deck, give the appearance of random width shingles”.1 They give it as sold from 1963.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Rustic Shakes (Philip Carey) 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 1963-10-31”, said by PHILIP CAREY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “STRIP SHINGLES OF ASBESTOS COMPOSITION WHICH, WHEN LAID ON A ROOF DECK, GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF RANDOM WIDTH SHINGLES”, said by PHILIP CAREY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Rustic Shakes (Philip Carey) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers, Roofers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Philip Carey (26)
Careytemp · Careycel · Aircel · Careystone · Thermo-board · Fire-chex 325 · Firefoil · Formboard · Industrial A-c Board · Marine Panel · No. 1 Hard · Roll Board · Shake Shield · Shasta Snow · Tri-Tone · Vitricel · 4.2 Careystone · AC Board · Asbestos millboard · Asbestos Rollboard · and 6 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (357)
Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Asbestocel (Johns-Manville) · Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Rock Shake (Johns-Manville) · Rockspan Clapboard (Johns-Manville) · Roctone (Tilo Roofing) · Roll Board (Ruberoid) · Rubestos (Ruberoid) · Ruco (maker not given) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Salem (Johns-Manville) · Sbr (Nicolet) · Scotstone (Marinite) · Servicised (Albert C. Fischer) · Shado-Shake (Supradur) · Shake-Tex (maker not given) · Sheetflextos (Keasbey & Mattison) · and 337 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Philip Carey: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Philip Carey 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) (July 25, 1966). Not yet published in our library.
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