Documents in our library describe Railko (Small & Parkes) as “material made wholly or mainly of asbestos or textile fibres for use as friction or bearing surfaces”.1 They give it as sold from 1948.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Railko (Small & Parkes) 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 1948-06-30”, said by SMALL & PARKES LIMITED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “MATERIAL MADE WHOLLY OR MAINLY OF ASBESTOS OR TEXTILE FIBRES FOR USE AS FRICTION OR BEARING SURFACES”, said by SMALL & PARKES LIMITED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Railko (Small & Parkes) with cloth, tape and other textiles and brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Auto Mechanics and Brake Workers.
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (301)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Quinorgo R-4 (Johns-Manville) · Quinterra 71 (Johns-Manville) · Quinterra Type 3 (Johns-Manville) · R/M Glassbestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M Green Shield (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M Style 25 Thermal Insulating Tape (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M Style 41-Rpd Pyrotex Yarns (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Raybestex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Ram (Elliott Glove) · Rhinobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rico (Record Industrial) · Ring packing (Garlock) · RM 24 H120 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM 7504 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · RM or R/M (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Other brakes and friction materials by Small & Parkes (1)
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (75)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Permafuse (S. G. Tilden) · Pioneer Asbestos (Floyd R. Biggs) · R-m (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M R-2854-B (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M R-3672-3 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · R/M US 98 (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Railroad Brake Shoes (Johns-Manville) · Ray-Mold (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rayman (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Red Demon (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Rk (Istag Ag) · Safetybestos (Bondall) · Servbestos (Thermoid Rubber) · Shallex (James Walker Packing Co.) · and 55 more: all brakes and friction materials
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (January 22, 1957). Not yet published in our library.
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