Documents in our library describe Asbestoprene (Victor) as “gaskets”.1 They give it as sold from 1938.1,2,3 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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Pictures
How Asbestoprene (Victor) 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.
Product: Asbestoprene gasket (Victor Manufacturing & Gasket Company)Product photograph · ACL Doc 20725
Label: Victor Asbestoprene valve cover set VS-23351-P (Victor Mfg. & Gasket Co.)Label or package · ACL Doc 20642
What each document says
Every statement about Asbestoprene (Victor) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
Product: Asbestoprene gasket (Victor Manufacturing & Gasket Company), Image
- Sold from: “Date of First Use in Commerce: July 16, 1938”, said by Victor Manufacturing & Gasket Company, as recorded by U.S. Patent Office trademark file2
Kind of product
We list Asbestoprene (Victor) with gaskets and packing, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics.
Other gaskets and packing by Victor Manufacturing & Gasket (2)
Gaskets and packing by other makers (209)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Anchor 1317NL (Anchor Packing) · Anchor 809 (Anchor Packing) · As-48S (Armstrong Cork) · Asbesteel (Faul & Timmins) · Asbestext (Asbestos Textile Co.) · Asbestopak (Felt Products Mfg. Co.) · Asbestoprene (Victor Products) · Asbestos (Nicolet) · Asbestos paper (GAF) · Asbestos Sheet (Garlock) · Aubeston (Aubern) · Azkem (Harco Chemical) · Battleship (Keasbey & Mattison) · BB (British Belting & Asbestos) · Bellowseal (Johns-Manville) · and 189 more: all gaskets and packing
See also
- Victor Manufacturing & Gasket on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (August 10, 1938). Not yet published in our library.
- Product: Asbestoprene gasket (Victor Manufacturing & Gasket Company), Image.
- Label: Victor Asbestoprene valve cover set VS-23351-P (Victor Mfg. & Gasket Co.), Image.
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