Documents in our library describe Goldbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “cloth”.1 They give it as made 1959–1970.1 They put its asbestos content at 70%.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Goldbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) in the documents, in each document's own words.
The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “roofing, siding”, p. 813
Kind of product
We list Goldbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by Raybestos-Manhattan (37)
Pyrotex · Novabestos · Novatex · Polybestos · Glassbestos · Asbestos Tape · Asbestos Tubing or Sleeving · Asbestos Yarn · Eleven-thirty-three · Flourobestos · Gatortape · Glasbestos · Green Shield · Greenshield · Quik Flame Oil Stove Wicking · R/M Glassbestos · R/M Green Shield · R/M Style 25 Thermal Insulating Tape · R/M Style 41-Rpd Pyrotex Yarns · Raybestex · 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) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Gardian Line (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Gardwell #164 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #174 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #1744 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · Granostruct (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Grey Rock Eagle (U.S. Asbestos) · Guardian (H. K. Porter) · Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) · Heatgard (H. K. Porter) · Herco (John Herman) · Hi-Luster (H. K. Porter) · 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
- The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 5.
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (October 31, 1977). Not yet published in our library.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 81. Not yet published in our library.
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