Documents in our library describe Tuffoid (Rudolph Orlob) as “belting, hose, asbestos, and rubber packings and lacing”.1 They give it as sold from 1924.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Tuffoid (Rudolph Orlob) 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 1924-01-01”, said by RUDOLPH ORLOB, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “BELTING, HOSE, ASBESTOS, AND RUBBER PACKINGS AND LACING”, said by RUDOLPH ORLOB, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Tuffoid (Rudolph Orlob) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Superbestos (Chambers Gasket & Mfg.) · Superheat (Johns-Manville) · Superpax (William R. C. Windsor) · Supersport (Societa Italiana Pirelli) · Tadpole (Johns-Manville) · Tanpac (A. W. Chesterton) · Target (Anchor Packing) · 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) · Vee-Square (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (March 23, 1925). Not yet published in our library.
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