Documents in our library describe Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “molded asbestos composition friction elements-namely, clutch facings, brake lining, vibration dampeners and snubbers, and molded gaskets of asbestos composition”.1 They give it as sold from 1956.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Ray-Mold (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 1956-05-28”, said by RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “MOLDED ASBESTOS COMPOSITION FRICTION ELEMENTS-NAMELY, CLUTCH FACINGS, BRAKE LINING, VIBRATION DAMPENERS AND SNUBBERS, AND MOLDED GASKETS OF ASBESTOS COMPOSITION”, said by RAYBESTOS-MANHATTAN, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) with gaskets and packing and brakes and friction materials, 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, Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Other gaskets and packing by Raybestos-Manhattan (8)
Pyroid · Dixie · Fluorobestos · K68 · R/M E-66 · 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.) · 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) · Runwel (Greene Tweed & Co.) · and 183 more: all gaskets and packing
Other brakes and friction materials by Raybestos-Manhattan (8)
Grey-Rock · Hydro · R-m · Red Demon · R/M R-2854-B · R/M R-3672-3 · R/M US 98 · Rayman
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (68)
Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Cobra (Johns-Manville) · National Gypsum (National Gypsum) · Non-Scor (Unarco) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Permafuse (S. G. Tilden) · Pioneer Asbestos (Floyd R. Biggs) · Railko (Small & Parkes) · Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Safetybestos (Bondall) · Servbestos (Thermoid Rubber) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · Silent Grip (Anchor Packing) · Standco (C. W. Hanslip) · Standco Brake Blocks (Standco Industries) · Starbestos (Knerr & Bortz) · and 48 more: all brakes and friction materials
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) (July 5, 1956). Not yet published in our library.
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