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Cover, title page, front matter, table of contents, and sampled pages and index of the 1964 Handbook of Reinforced Plastics of the Society of the Plastics Industry, a reference book on resins, reinforcements, molding, tooling, testing, design, safety and cost accounting. The pages supplied cover the foreword, preface, contents, Chapter I-1 and part of Chapter II-1 on polyester resins, plus the index; the contents list a chapter on asbestos-reinforced plastics (p. 167) and one on hygiene and safety for personnel (p. 606). unreviewed
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- Author
- Samuel S. Oleesky (Consultant for Reinforced Plastics, Los Angeles, California); J. Gilbert Mohr (Johns-Manville Fiber Glass Division, Waterville, Ohio)
- Published by
- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, for the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc.
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-5367
- Date
- 1964
- Rights
- A published article used as a document in asbestos litigation. Its copyright is not ours, so we describe it and link to it rather than host it.
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Samuel S. Oleesky, J. Gilbert Mohr. "Handbook of Reinforced Plastics of the Society of the Plastics Industry." 1964.
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What the document holds
- Pages 1-2: Plaintiff's exhibit stamp UC-5367, front cover and spine of the book
- Pages 3-6: Title page, copyright page, foreword and preface (November 1963)
- Pages 7-8: Table of contents
- Pages 9-17: Section I, Chapter I-1: What are Reinforced Plastics?
- Pages 18-40: Section II, Chapter II-1: Polyester Resins (manufacture, properties, chemistry, inhibitors, catalysts), partial
- Pages 627-631: Index, partial (mold through zirconium compounds)
People and organizations
From Samuel S. Oleesky (Consultant for Reinforced Plastics, Los Angeles, California); J. Gilbert Mohr (Johns-Manville Fiber Glass Division, Waterville, Ohio).
- J. Gilbert Mohr (author)
- Samuel S. Oleesky (author)
- Johns-Manville Fiber Glass Division (named)
- Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc (named)
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Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos-Reinforced Plastics: Circuit Breakers, Switchgear, and Resin Pipe.
About this copy
This is document UC-5367 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 631 pages.
Cited by Barry Castleman
In Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (5th edition, 2005), which cites it in:
- Chapter 10 (Historical Research on Toxic Substances), p. 692 (a related source)
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Samuel S. Oleesky (Consultant for Reinforced Plastics, Los Angeles, California), J. Gilbert Mohr (Johns-Manville Fiber Glass Division, Waterville, Ohio). “Handbook of Reinforced Plastics of the Society of the Plastics Industry, by S. S. Oleesky and J. G. Mohr.” 1964. Union Carbide documents, UC-5367. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, for the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-5367.
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