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Color-Tex (Ruberoid)

Documents in our library describe Color-Tex (Ruberoid) as “asbestos cement siding”.1 They give it as sold from 1952.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Color-Tex (Ruberoid) 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 1952-10-12”, said by RUBEROID CO., THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “ASBESTOS CEMENT SIDING”, said by RUBEROID CO., THE, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “building siding: Portland cement & asbestos” (as of 1953), p. 692

Kind of product

We list Color-Tex (Ruberoid) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.

Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Ruberoid (15)

Vitramic · Eternit · Mill Board · Roll Board · Timbertex · American Thatch · Asbestos Millboard · Asbestos Sponge Felt · Colorator · Deluxe Stonewall · Gasket Quality · Rubestos · Color Ground · Stonewall · Supertab

Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (368)

Flexboard (Johns-Manville) · Thermobestos · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Chrom-Tex (Keasbey & Mattison) · Chroma-Tex (Asbestone) · Chroma-Tone (National Gypsum) · Classic (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Classic-Shake (National Gypsum) · Clipfast (GAF) · Color-tex (GAF) · Colorbestos (Johns-Manville) · Colorceran (Johns-Manville) · Colorchip (Johns-Manville) · Colorlith (Johns-Manville) · Colorlith Chalkboard (Johns-Manville) · Colorsil (Johns-Manville) · Concord (U.S. Gypsum) · Corspan (Johns-Manville) · and 348 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (November 14, 1952). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 69. Not yet published in our library.

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“Color-Tex (Ruberoid).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/ruberoid-color-tex.

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