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Permaroof Wet Surface Type (Republic Powdered Metals)

Documents in our library describe Permaroof Wet Surface Type (Republic Powdered Metals) as “heavy-bodied asphalt-base roof surfacing product containing asbestos fibre”.1 They give it as sold from 1947.1 They put its asbestos content at 2%.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Permaroof Wet Surface Type (Republic Powdered Metals) 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 1947-07-02”, said by REPUBLIC POWDERED METALS, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “HEAVY-BODIED ASPHALT-BASE ROOF SURFACING PRODUCT CONTAINING ASBESTOS FIBRE”, said by REPUBLIC POWDERED METALS, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Celanese Memo Forwarding NIOSH's List of Trade-Name Products Containing Regulated Carcinogens (1977)

  • Asbestos content: “Permaroof Wet Surface Type | Asbestos | 02 | 0241344” (as of 1972-74), said by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, as recorded by Celanese Chemical Company (C. D. Barrett memo CDB-70-77), p. 82

Kind of product

Trades that worked with products like it: Roofers.

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (April 13, 1953). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Celanese Memo Forwarding NIOSH's List of Trade-Name Products Containing Regulated Carcinogens (August 26, 1977), p. 8.

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“Permaroof Wet Surface Type (Republic Powdered Metals).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/republic-powdered-metals-permaroof-wet-surface-type.

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