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Pyroid (Raybestos-Manhattan)

Documents in our library describe Pyroid (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “compressed asbestos sheet material for packing purposes”.1 They give it as sold from 1920.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Pyroid (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 1920-07-06”, said by RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “COMPRESSED ASBESTOS SHEET MATERIAL FOR PACKING PURPOSES”, said by RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Label: Pyroid trademark (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: July 6, 1920”, said by Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
  • Description: “compressed sheet packing” (as of 1959), p. 1023

Catalog page: R/M Woven Asbestos Wire-Inserted Gasket Sheet (R/M No. 600, 603, 603-NM, 603-OR) and 1 other product

  • Asbestos content: “COMPRESSED ASBESTOS SHEET PACKING”, p. 14

Kind of product

We list Pyroid (Raybestos-Manhattan) 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 Raybestos-Manhattan (8)

Dixie · Fluorobestos · 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.) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Permanite (TBA Industrial Products) · Pitseal (Hermetic Materials) · Pivot (Beldam Packing & Rubber Company) · Plastic (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Powerite (Argo Asbestos & Rubber) · Pucaro (Presspan-Fabrik Chr. Authenrieth) · Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) · Red Mastite (Aberdeen Industries) · Reinz-Repa (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinz-Super-Spezial (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Reinzolit (Reinz-Dichtungs-Gesellschaft M. B. H.) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Robot Packing (Armor Products) · and 183 more: all gaskets and packing

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (September 4, 1947). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Label: Pyroid trademark (Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.), Image.
  3. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 102. Not yet published in our library.
  4. Catalog page: R/M Woven Asbestos Wire-Inserted Gasket Sheet (R/M No. 600, 603, 603-NM, 603-OR) and 1 other product, p. 1.

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