Documents in our library describe Wheeler (Wheeler Protective Apparel) as “aprons, gloves, firemen's suits, blankets, capes, leggings, mittens”.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Wheeler (Wheeler Protective Apparel) in the documents, in each document's own words.
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “aprons, gloves, firemen's suits, blankets, capes, leggings, mittens” (as of 1952), p. 1251
Kind of product
We list Wheeler (Wheeler Protective Apparel) with paper, felt and millboard and cloth, tape and other textiles, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Welders.
Paper, felt and millboard by other makers (299)
Min-k (Johns-Manville) · Pyrotex (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Insubestos (Unarco) · Limpet (Keasbey & Mattison) · Novabestos (Raybestos-Manhattan) · V-dent (Nicolet) · Vangelder Papier (Koninklijke Papierfabrieken Van Gelder Zonen N.V.) · Ventsulation (Johns-Manville) · Vitribestos (Johns-Manville) · Vitro Fire Felt (Johns-Manville) · Vulca-Dek (Monroe) · Weldwood (U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers) · White Surface Asbestos Jacket (Johns-Manville) · White Top Asbestos Jacket (Philip Carey) · Woolfelt (GAF) · Wovenstone (Unarco) · X-l (Excelsior) · Yankee (Beacon Sales Company) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · #50 Asbestos Weatherproofing Felt (Johns-Manville) · and 279 more: all paper, felt and millboard
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) · Uniroyal (United States Rubber) · Variflex (A.P.G. Hewitt Hose) · Wearbestos (Johns-Manville) · Weldgard (H. K. Porter) · Weldgard (Southern Asbestos Co.) · Weldproff (Car-mon Products) · Weldwood (U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers) · X-250 Expansion A (Johns-Manville) · X-275 (Johns-Manville) · X-l (Excelsior) · "Not A Kick In A Million Feet" (Lehon) · 101 Cloth (Coated) (Johns-Manville) · 135 Tadpole Gasketing Tape (Johns-Manville) · 135-S Tadpole Gasketing Tape (Johns-Manville) · 55 Cable Fireproofing Tape (Johns-Manville) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
See also
- Wheeler Protective Apparel: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
References
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 125. Not yet published in our library.
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