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Carosel (U.S. Rubber)

Documents in our library describe Carosel (U.S. Rubber) as “carosel, high-absorbency fabric for dish towels”.1 They give it as sold from 1946.2 They put its asbestos content at 20%.2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.

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What each document says

Every statement about Carosel (U.S. Rubber) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Asbestos Magazine, 1947, November 1947

  • Description: “Carosel, high-absorbency fabric for dish towels”, p. 421

Asbestos Magazine, 1947, January 1947

  • Sold from: “Late in December, around Christmastime in fact, we were delighted to receive two packages of these towels”, p. 202
  • Asbestos content: “kitchen towels made of 20% asbestos fibre”, p. 202

Carosel towels (U.S. Rubber Company) (US Patent 2,413,964, 1947)

  • Asbestos content: “approximately 80 per cent cotton fibers and 20 per cent asbestos fiber by weight”, p. 23

Asbestos Magazine, 1948, August 1948

  • Ingredient: “made of Asbeston cloth (a U. S. Rubber product)”, p. 524
  • Description: “dish towel, 20% asbestos” (as of 1947-1949), p. 655

Kind of product

We list Carosel (U.S. Rubber) with cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

Other cloth, tape and other textiles by U.S. Rubber (4)

Asbeston · Asbestall · Asbeston Style S/6555 · Asbeston Style S/799A

Cloth, tape and other textiles by other makers (297)

Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Thermobestos pipe covering · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Blastape (Johns-Manville) · Blastube (Johns-Manville) · Brapaco (Eureka Packing) · Brown Bag (Joneric Products) · Cablegard (Quin-T) · Caposite (Cape Asbestos Co. of London) · Carey (Philip Carey) · Ceilinite (Johns-Manville) · Celoron (Continental Diamond Fibre) · Chempac (Johns-Manville) · Chemtite (Johns-Manville) · Chevron Asbestos Roof Coating (Standard Oil of California) · Clarex-lageeze (Claremont Industries) · Cleangard (H. K. Porter) · Coldfinger (Scandura) · and 277 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles

See also

  • U.S. Rubber: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1947, November 1947 (November 1, 1947), p. 42.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1947, January 1947 (January 1, 1947), p. 20.
  3. Carosel towels (U.S. Rubber Company) (US Patent 2,413,964, 1947) (January 7, 1947), p. 2.
  4. Asbestos Magazine, 1948, August 1948 (August 1, 1948), p. 52.
  5. Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 65. Not yet published in our library.

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