Documents in our library describe Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) as “hyco brake lining consisted of frictioned asbestos cloth, folded to the desired width and thickness, then stitched, and finally cured”.1 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Asbestos Magazine, 1971, June 1971
- Description: “HYCO brake lining consisted of frictioned asbestos cloth, folded to the desired width and thickness, then stitched, and finally cured”, said by John A. Bettes, Jr., as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 81
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “brake lining” (as of 1926), p. 842
Kind of product
We list Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) 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.
Other cloth, tape and other textiles by U.S. Asbestos (1)
Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (300)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Greenshield (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Guardian (H. K. Porter) · Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) · Heatgard (H. K. Porter) · Herco (John Herman) · Hi-Luster (H. K. Porter) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Industrial No. 200-14 (Industrial Glove) · Industrial No. 225-14 (Industrial Glove) · Inslgard (H. K. Porter) · Insulag (Quigley) · Insutape (Unarco) · Jaxcolite (Jackson, Gordon C.) · JB 1000A (Elliot Glove) · and 280 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Other brakes and friction materials by U.S. Asbestos (3)
Brakes and friction materials by other makers (73)
Grey-Rock (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Chekko (Cresswell's Asbestos) · Mintex (British Belting & Asbestos) · Ring packing (Garlock) · Gmc Parts (General Motors) · Gralam (Champion Friction) · Grizzly (Maremont) · Grizzly (Nuturn) · Halo (Scandinavia Belting) · HK Porter (H. K. Porter) · Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Hydro (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Ideal (Emsco Asbestos) · Inlite (General Motors) · Itt Aimco (ITT Aimco) · Jurid (Kirchbach'Sche Werke Kirchbach & Co.) · Lined brake shoe sets (Wagner) · Low N Bestos (Wheeling Brake Block Manufacturing) · and 53 more: all brakes and friction materials
See also
- U.S. Asbestos: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1971, June 1971 (June 1, 1971), p. 8.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 84. Not yet published in our library.
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