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Fortex (TBA Industrial Products)

Documents in our library describe Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) as “industrial textiles made from asbestos yarns and primarily for use as thermal/electrical insulation and/or as reinforcement for plastics”.1 They give it as sold from 1970.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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How Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) 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 Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) 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 1970-12”, said by TBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS LIMITED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
  • Description: “INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES MADE FROM ASBESTOS YARNS AND PRIMARILY FOR USE AS THERMAL/ELECTRICAL INSULATION AND/OR AS REINFORCEMENT FOR PLASTICS”, said by TBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS LIMITED, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1

Label: Fortex Webbing FW300 (TBA Industrial Products Limited), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: December, 1970”, said by TBA Industrial Products Limited, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2

Label: TBA Fortex Textiles (TBA Industrial Products Limited), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: December, 1970”, said by TBA Industrial Products Limited, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3
  • Description: “asbestos cloth” (as of 1974), p. 794

Kind of product

We list Fortex (TBA Industrial Products) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Electricians and Electrical 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) · Flamegard (H. K. Porter) · Flamegard (Southern Asbestos) · Flamemaster (Atlas Textile) · Flamesafe (Singer Safety Products) · Flexible Trainline Pipe (CertainTeed) · Flourobestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Form Pack (Devcon) · Garco (General Asbestos & Rubber) · Gardian Line (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Gardwell #164 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #174 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell #1744 (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gardwell (Safety Clothing & Equipment) · Gatortape (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Glas-Bes (Sun Chemical) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

References

  1. USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (September 25, 1973). Not yet published in our library.
  2. Label: Fortex Webbing FW300 (TBA Industrial Products Limited), Image.
  3. Label: TBA Fortex Textiles (TBA Industrial Products Limited), Image.
  4. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 79. Not yet published in our library.

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