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Eternit (Ruberoid)

Documents in our library describe Eternit (Ruberoid) as “shingles”.1 They give it as sold from 1924.2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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Pictures

How Eternit (Ruberoid) looked: labels, photographs and catalog pages from our library. Each picture has its own page and library number, so it can be cited on its own.

What each document says

Every statement about Eternit (Ruberoid) in the documents, in each document's own words.

  • Description: “shingles” (as of 1953), p. 741
  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: January 2, 1924”, said by American Insulation Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
  • Asbestos content: “Asbestos Shingles”, p. 12

Label: Timbertex asbestos cement shingles, Eternit (The Ruberoid Co.), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: September 6, 1932”, said by The Ruberoid Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
  • Asbestos content: “ASBESTOS CEMENT”, p. 13
  • Asbestos content: “The Ideal Asbestos Cement Flat Sheet for use in the manufacture of Insulated Curtain Wall Panels”, p. 14

Kind of product

We list Eternit (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, Roofers.

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

Vitramic · Mill Board · Roll Board · Timbertex · American Thatch · Asbestos Millboard · Asbestos Sponge Felt · Colorator · Deluxe Stonewall · Gasket Quality · Rubestos · Color Ground · Color-Tex · 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.) · Duroc (GAF) · Dutch Lap (GAF) · Ebonized Asbestos (Ambler Asbestos) · Ebonized Asbestos (Keasbey & Mattison) · Economy 250 (National Gypsum) · Equality (Johns-Manville) · Eternit (GAF) · Eternit Asbestos Shingles (American Insulation Co.) · Eternit Stonewall (GAF) · Eternit Stonewall Siding (Eternit, Inc.) · Facad (United States Plywood) · Facade (Cape Universal Bldg. Products of Cape Asbestos Group) · Face Span (Johns-Manville) · Facespan (Johns-Manville) · Ferobestos (J. W. Roberts Ltd (Turner & Newall)) · and 348 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet

See also

References

  1. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 74. Not yet published in our library.
  2. Advertisement: Ruberoid Eternit Mount Vernon Asbestos Shingles (The Ruberoid Co.), Image.
  3. Label: Timbertex asbestos cement shingles, Eternit (The Ruberoid Co.), Image.
  4. Advertisement: ETERNIT (The RUBEROID Co.), p. 1.

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