Documents in our library describe Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) as “asbestos mill board (gasket grade)”.1 It was rated for temperatures up to 1000 °F.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)
- Temperature limit: “0 to 1000”, p. 961
- Form: “Asbestos Mill Board (Gasket Grade)”, p. 961
- Description: “Extra long asbestos fibers mixed with a strong binding material and formed under pressure. 42 in. x 48 in. sheets, and thicknesses of 3/32 in., 1/8 in., 3/16 in., and 1/4 in.”, p. 961
- Asbestos content: “Extra long asbestos fibers mixed with a strong binding material”, p. 961
Kind of product
We list Gasket Quality (Ruberoid) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet and gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, 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 · 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.) · Fluid-Tite (CertainTeed) · Fluid-Tite (Keasbey & Mattison) · Follansbee Terne (Follansbee Steel) · Formboard (Philip Carey) · Frycor (Owens-Corning) · Fyrbestos (Keene/Beh) · Galbestos (H.H. Robertson) · Glatex (U.S. Gypsum) · Gold Bond (Asbestone) · Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) · Gothic (maker not given) · Gothic (Ruberoid) · Grain-Tex (maker not given) · Granostruct (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · Granowall (Cement Asbestos Products Co. (Capco)) · and 348 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Fluorobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack 2 (Devcon) · Fyrex (Grant Wilson) · G (B.F. Goodrich) · G.T. Ring (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Garlock (Garlock) · Geniune Pittseal (Industrial Hermetic Materials (Miami, FL)) · Gladiator (Pilot Packing Co.) · Goetze Metallic Gaskets (Johns-Manville) · GP/Duroid 3600 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · GP/Duroid 3700 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · Grafel (Fel Pro) · Graphlon C (Marlo Corporation) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Ruberoid: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Ruberoid on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 96.
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