Documents in our library describe Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) as “woven belting, hose, fire hose, filter tubing, valve packing, braided packing, woven packing, and brake banding, all made of cotton; asbestos brake banding and cotton stitched belting for power transmission, elevating, and conveying”.1 They give it as sold from 1905.1
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What each document says
Every statement about Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1905-04-10”, said by WM. E. HOOPER & SONS CO., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “WOVEN BELTING, HOSE, FIRE HOSE, FILTER TUBING, VALVE PACKING, BRAIDED PACKING, WOVEN PACKING, AND BRAKE BANDING, ALL MADE OF COTTON; ASBESTOS BRAKE BANDING AND COTTON STITCHED BELTING FOR POWER TRANSMISSION, ELEVATING, AND CONVEYING”, said by WM. E. HOOPER & SONS CO., as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Kind of product
We list Hooperwood (Wm. E. Hooper & Sons) with cloth, tape and other textiles, gaskets and packing and brakes and friction materials, from how the documents describe it. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Pipefitters and Plumbers, Millwrights, Machinists, and Industrial Mechanics, Auto Mechanics and Brake 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) · Greenshield (Raybestos-Manhattan) · Grey Rock Eagle (U.S. Asbestos) · Guardian (H. K. Porter) · Gum-Bestos Asbestos Paper Tape (Grant Wilson) · Heatgard (H. K. Porter) · Herco (John Herman) · Hi-Luster (H. K. Porter) · Hyco (U.S. Asbestos) · Hycoe brake lining (Manhattan Rubber) · Industrial No. 200-14 (Industrial Glove) · Industrial No. 225-14 (Industrial Glove) · Inslgard (H. K. Porter) · Insulag (Quigley) · Insutape (Unarco) · Jaxcolite (Jackson, Gordon C.) · and 281 more: all cloth, tape and other textiles
Gaskets and packing by other makers (211)
Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Flexatallic (Flexatalic Gasket Corp.) · Jewett (Johns-Manville) · Spirotallic (Johns-Manville) · Aztec (Asbestos Textile Co.) · GP/Duroid 3600 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · GP/Duroid 3700 Line (Rogers Corp. (Rogers, CT)) · Grafel (Fel Pro) · Graphlon C (Marlo Corporation) · Graybestos (Sterling Packing & Gasket Company) · Hallite (Hall & Hall) · Hi Heat Dum Dum (Mobil Chemical) · Hopaco (Hollow Center Packing) · Hot Oil Superheat (Cincinnati Gasket Packing & Mfg.) · Hy-tensile (Nicolet) · Jointine Betabestos (Joinine Prpducts Company) · K & M 226 (Nicolet) · K & M 466 Sheet Packing (Nicolet) · K & M 801 (Keasbey & Mattison) · K & M Style 740 Hy-Swell (Nicolet) · and 191 more: all gaskets and packing
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (May 14, 1921). Not yet published in our library.
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