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Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum)

Documents in our library describe Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) as “joint compound”.1 They give it as made 1920–1975.1,2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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How Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) 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.

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What each document says

Every statement about Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) in the documents, in each document's own words.

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “20”, p. 71
  • Made from: “20”, p. 71
  • Made until: “75”, p. 71
  • Made until: “75”, p. 71
  • Form: “JOINT COMPOUND”, p. 71
  • Form: “JOINT COMPOUND”, p. 71

Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981

  • Made from: “36”, p. 232
  • Form: “JOINT COMPOUND/TAPE”, p. 232
  • Made until: “75”, p. 232

Label: Ready Mixed Perf-A-Tape Cement (United States Gypsum Company), Image

  • Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: May, 1936”, said by United States Gypsum Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file3

Kind of product

We list Perf-a-tape (U.S. Gypsum) with cloth, tape and other textiles and joint compound and texture coatings, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Drywall Finishers, Plasterers, and Painters, Carpenters and Construction 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) · Noramite (North American Asbestos) · Novabestos (Irvington) · Novatex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Nu-Flex (Car-Mon Products) · Old Hickory (Industrial Gloves Company) · Palmetto Cabcock (Greene Tweed & Co.) · Pars (Pars Manufacturing) · Philbestos (Pacor) · Polybes (Sun Chemical) · Polybestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Porterlag (H. K. Porter) · Portersite (H. K. Porter) · Protector Gold Cross (Protector Safety Industries) · Quietline (Amatex) · Quik Flame Oil Stove Wicking (Raybestos-Manhattan) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

Other joint compound and texture coatings by U.S. Gypsum (13)

Imperial · Sheetrock · A.B. Tex · Texolite · Textone · Usg · Covercoat · Durabond · Joint compound · Kemidol · Pac-Tex · Paste Spackling Putty · Sheet Rock

Joint compound and texture coatings by other makers (10)

Vitramic (maker not given) · Ripple Tone (Gold Bond Bldg. Products (National Gypsum)) · Ceiling (Georgia-Pacific) · Gothic (Eternit, Inc.) · Ready Mix (Georgia-Pacific) · Scotstone (Marinite) · Wall (Georgia-Pacific) · Homart (Sears) · Rutland Repair Products Ricky Rutland (Rutland Fire Clay Co.) · Surco (Surface Coatings)

See also

References

  1. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 7.
  2. Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 23.
  3. Label: Ready Mixed Perf-A-Tape Cement (United States Gypsum Company), Image.

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