Documents in our library describe Vee-Square (Raybestos-Manhattan) as “fluid piston rod packing comprising essentially a rubber or rubber-like molding either homogeneous or reinforced with cotton and/or asbestos fibre”.1 They give it as sold from 1953.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Vee-Square (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 1953-04-07”, said by RAYBESTOS MANHATTAN, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “FLUID PISTON ROD PACKING COMPRISING ESSENTIALLY A RUBBER OR RUBBER-LIKE MOLDING EITHER HOMOGENEOUS OR REINFORCED WITH COTTON AND/OR ASBESTOS FIBRE”, said by RAYBESTOS MANHATTAN, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Vee-Square (Raybestos-Manhattan) with gaskets and packing and asbestos-reinforced plastics, 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, Electricians and Electrical Workers.
Other gaskets and packing by Raybestos-Manhattan (8)
Pyroid · Dixie · Fluorobestos · K68 · R/M E-66 · Ray-Mold · Silverbestos · 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.) · Unarco (Unarco) · Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Uni Syn Style No. 239 (Keasbey & Mattison) · Unitallic 166 (Unarco) · Valvasca SS (maker not given) · Valvasca Type M (maker not given) · Vee-Flex (maker not given) · Velbestos (Vellumoid) · Victopac (Victor Manufacturing & Gasket) · Wirepack (Fel-Pro) · X-l (Excelsior) · "Tauril" (Ungarische Gummiwaarenfabriks Actiengesellschaft) · "V" Pilot (Pilot Packing Co.) · 101 Mobilene Sheet (Johns-Manville) · 580 (Nicolet) · and 183 more: all gaskets and packing
Other asbestos-reinforced plastics by Raybestos-Manhattan (2)
Asbestos-reinforced plastics by other makers (38)
Thermomat (Johns-Manville) · Thermasil (Keene) · Durestos (Turner Brothers Asbestos) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Chemtite (Johns-Manville) · Preg-Pli (Sun Chemical) · Quinorogo R-470 (Johns-Manville) · Resinox (Monsanto) · Structo Shape (Johns-Manville) · Surco (Surface Coatings) · Temp-Tite (Johns-Manville) · Thermomat Style 383 (Johns-Manville) · Weldwood (U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · Aboglas (Navtar) · Asbestite (Burndy) · Asbestohm (Dossert) · Bakelite (Union Carbide) · Celoron (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Copalam (Cottrel Paper Co. Inc. (Fall River, MA)) · and 18 more: all asbestos-reinforced plastics
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) (May 12, 1953). Not yet published in our library.
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“Vee-Square (Raybestos-Manhattan).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/raybestos-manhattan-vee-square.
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