Documents in our library describe Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “asbestos tubing or sleeving”.1 They give it as sold from 1953.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Raybestos-Manhattan) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953
Raybestos-Manhattan: Asbestos Textiles and Textile Products (1940)
- Use: “woven asbestos tubing for insulating bus bars at switch boards and transforming stations”, p. 193
- Use: “fireproof flexible sleeving to insulate electrical wires and cables, to cover rods of thermocouples, and as a sleeving on tools to handle hot glassware”, p. 193
- Fiber grade: “Underwriters Grade; Grade AA or Grade AAA”, p. 193
Kind of product
We list Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Raybestos-Manhattan) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Raybestos-Manhattan (37)
Pyrotex · Novabestos · Novatex · Polybestos · Glassbestos · Tribestos · Ablatape · Ablatube · Allbestos · Asbestos Cloth · Asbestos Rope · Asbestos Tape · Asbestos Yarn · Eleven-thirty-three · Flourobestos · Gatortape · Glasbestos · Goldbestos · Green Shield · Greenshield · and 17 more on the company's page
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (264)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Insutape (Unarco) · Thermomat (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Paper Tape (Ruberoid) · Asbestos Rope (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Rope (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Rope (M. H. Detrick) · Asbestos Tape (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Tape (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Keasbey & Mattison) · Asbestos Yarn (Johns-Manville) · Asbestos Yarn (Keasbey & Mattison) · Atlas (Atlas Asbestos) · Azkem (Harco Chemical) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Battleship (Keasbey & Mattison) · BB (British Belting & Asbestos) · Beldam'S Pilot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · and 244 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
See also
- Raybestos-Manhattan: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Raybestos-Manhattan on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 100.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 2.
- Raybestos-Manhattan: Asbestos Textiles and Textile Products (January 1, 1940), p. 19.
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