Documents in our library describe Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.) as “mechanical packing, namely, asbestos coil and spiral packings and asbestos packing rings and gaskets”.1 They give it as sold from 1889.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1949, August 1949
- Description: “mechanical packing, namely, Asbestos coil and spiral packings and asbestos packing rings and gaskets”, said by Pilot Packing Co., Inc., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), "Trade Marks" column, p. 481
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1889-01”, said by PILOT PACKING CO., INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
- Description: “ASBESTOS COIL AND SPIRAL PACKINGS, ASBESTOS PACKING RINGS, ASBESTOS PACKING GASKETS AND ASBESTOS PACKING”, said by PILOT PACKING CO., INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
Kind of product
We list Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.) 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 Pilot Packing Co. (1)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (210)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · G (B.F. Goodrich) · G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Garlock (Garlock) · Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) · Geniune Pittseal (Industrial Hermetic Materials (Miami, FL)) · Goetze Metallic Gaskets (Johns-Manville) · GP/Duroid 3600 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · GP/Duroid 3700 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · Grafel (Fel Pro) · Graphlon C (Marlo Corporation) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Hallite (Hall & Hall) · Hi Heat Dum Dum (Mobil Chemical) · and 190 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1949, August 1949 (August 1, 1949), p. 48.
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (April 12, 1954). Not yet published in our library.
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“Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/pilot-packing-co-gladiator.
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