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Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving (Raybestos-Manhattan)

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)

  • Description: “Asbestos fibers braided and woven into tubing of a variety of sizes and wall thicknesses.”, p. 1001
  • Asbestos content: “Asbestos fibers braided and woven”, p. 1001
  • Form: “Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving”, p. 1001

Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953

  • Sold from: “R/M Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving, Braided or Woven (ad, May 1953)”, p. 22
  • Use: “protect electrical cable, motor leads, thermocouple rods; thermal insulation over copper tubing carrying oil or gasoline”, p. 22

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.

See also

References

  1. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 100.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 2.
  3. Raybestos-Manhattan: Asbestos Textiles and Textile Products (January 1, 1940), p. 19.

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