Documents in our library describe Super Insutape (Unarco) as “wrap on insulation”.1 They give it as sold from 1924.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Super Insutape (Unarco) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981
- Form: “WRAP ON INSULATION”, p. 251
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1924-02-15”, said by UNARCO INDUSTRIES, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
- Description: “ASBESTOS STEAM PIPE COVERING, COMPRISING A WOVEN ASBESTOS SHEATH AND AN ASBESTOS FIBER FILLER”, said by UNARCO INDUSTRIES, INC., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office2
Kind of product
We list Super Insutape (Unarco) with pipe covering and block insulation, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers.
Other pipe covering and block insulation by Unarco (8)
Pipe covering and block insulation by other makers (268)
Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Kaylo (Owens-Corning) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Simplex Super Shrink (Keasbey & Mattison) · Sixcell (Nicolet) · Sonite (Johns-Manville) · Standard Sectional Covering (Johns-Manville) · Super Caltemp (Fibreboard) · Super Cell (Ruberoid) · Super Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Super Insutape (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Super-light (Philip Carey) · Super-Light 85% Magnesia (Philip Carey) · Superex 2000 (Johns-Manville) · Superex-1900 (Johns-Manville) · Superex-m (Johns-Manville) · Superex-sg (Johns-Manville) · Temp-check (Philip Carey) · and 248 more: all pipe covering and block insulation
See also
- Unarco: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Unarco on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 25.
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (September 17, 1962). Not yet published in our library.
Cite this page
“Super Insutape (Unarco).” AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/products/unarco-super-insutape.
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