Documents in our library describe Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “impregnated asbestos felt products in sheet form for use in making gaskets”.1 They give it as sold from 1960.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) 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 1960-01-07”, said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “Impregnated Asbestos Felt Products in Sheet Form for Use in Making Gaskets”, said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) with paper, felt and millboard and gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other paper, felt and millboard by Raybestos-Manhattan (9)
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (290)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Wovenstone (Unarco) · Fireclad (Philip Carey) · Firefly 800 (TBA Industrial Products, Turner & Newall) · Fireguard (Philip Carey) · Fireguard Jacketing (Philip Carey) · Firetard (Johns-Manville) · Flamegard (H. K. Porter) · Flexstone Mineral Surface Cap Sheet (Johns-Manville) · Foil Laminates (Nicolet) · Fosterite Asbestos (Westinghouse) · Frost-Proof Pipe Covering (GAF) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · Gaftemp Roof Insulation (GAF) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · and 270 more: all paper, felt and millboard
Other gaskets and packing by Raybestos-Manhattan (8)
Pyroid · Dixie · K68 · R/M E-66 · Ray-Mold · Silverbestos · Vee-Square · Viton-Asbestos
Gaskets and packing by other makers (203)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Everoid (Hermetic Materials Ltd.) · Excelite (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · F.O.P. (Uniroyal) · Felbestos (Fel-Pro) · Firefly (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Flex Seal (Sepco Metallic Gasket Co.) · Flextallic (Flexitallic Gasket) · Form Pack 2 (Devcon) · 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)) · and 183 more: all gaskets and packing
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
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (February 9, 1960). Not yet published in our library.
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“Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/raybestos-manhattan-fluorobestos.
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