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Families of asbestos and their uses

Raw Asbestos

Yarn Felt Insulating wire Compound for encasing of motor windings Filling for asbestos mattress insulation Wall plugging compound Insulation of batteries (loose fibre) Plaster and stucco Coating for welding rods

In cheese making (spores were placed on asbestos) Thread Rope Packing Sprayed asbestos Insulation of batteries (loose fibre) Reinforcement in plastics High temperature insulation In foundations (to resist shock) In the theatre, dust on cobwebs, old wine kegs, snow scenes, etc

Filter fires and filter pads Automobile body undercoating Insulation for walls and floors (loose fibre) Insulation in underground conduits (loose fibre) Wadding in cartridges and timing devices Railway Sleepers Packing for explosives or other materials

Asbestos Yarn

Cloth Gaskets and gasket cloth Wick for oil burning Fire retardant hose Gas mask filters Stocking for lead cable

Brake Lining Twine or sewing thread Electric fixture wire covering Tape Electrical and other Tubing Electric cable covering Steam hose

Packing, valve stem, braided and other Gas Mantles Clutch facings Rope Spark plugs

Asbestos Cloth

Packing, sheet, high pressure, folded or wound Draperies Bags and diaphrams (in oxygen producing) Filtering (fruit juices, acids, wines beers etc) Oil; filter sack in Automobiles Padding Prison Cells Insulation against noise and vibration (especially in air planes Helmets Aprons Hangings for firestops Blankets in electrolyzer cells Facing for dryer felt Filter in dust collectors Padding for laundry presses and mangles Conveyor belting In cheese making to control temperature

Clutch facings Clothing, suits. Gloves, leggings Awnings Theatre Curtains Oven insulation Lining of laboratories, cooling chambers and other rooms In various medical test apparatus Ironing board covers Brake lining, folded and stitched Mailbags Rugs Theatre Scenery Portable motion picture booths Protectors for gas bags in balloons Wrapping oil tanks and oil lines in engines Fittings for airplanes

Asbestos insulation mattresses Blankets for fire fighting Floor lining in theatres Motion picture screen Asbestos faced wipers in commutators Linning of automobile footbooards Sand bags for pressing hats In hay curing to preserve aroma and colour Gaskets Substitutes for canvas or insulation where temperature are high (lagging Cloth) In acoustical treatment Gun Grips Lining in motors Plastics Umbrellas and shields (protecting fireman)

Asbestos Felt

In Acoustical work adhesives

On Paper machines Protection of underground pipe

Padding in pianos plastics

Asbestos Tape

Wick for oil burning Winding bus bars Insulating electric wires on planes and ships.

Pull strings for ovens General Lab uses, insulation of flasks, test tubes, resorts, tie straps in diffusing materials

Insulating armatures In glass manufacture for wrapping tines of forks to take bottles from ovens

Wick Packing

As Packing

For piping of wire, armor plate or galvanized materials

Asbestos Paper

Air cell and other pipe coverings Linings of stoves & heaters In welding and other processes for protection from heat. In annealing (crumpled paper) Covering of rockwool blankets Cartridges Carpets Radiator covers Cookers Reinforced with cotton thread for automobile tops Backing for floor tiles

Asbestos felt roofing Wick on ail burning Linings of: filing cabinets, soldiers' helmets, auto mufflers, drum controllers, electric appliances, armored car roofs, enameling ovens Boiler jackets Asbestos built-up roofing Gaskets in the electrical industry Motors Insulation of ovens and dry kilns Wrapping of wires and cables. Construction of air ducts

Asbestos protected metal roof sheet Wrapping of electrical wire Diaphragm in electrolytic cell Reinforcing aluminum foil for insulation In window glass machinery to guide hot sheets; to shield hot glass from flying fragments Wrapping of hop air pipes Tank Covers In chemistry physics in many various ways Insulating exhausts on cars Table pads and mats Backing Sheets

Asbestos Millboard

Stoves and heaters Bottoms of brooder stoves Washers in electrical apparatus Motion picture booths Ovens and dry kilns Paddles in glass mills Simmering mats

Garages As fireproof wallboard In metal clad doors Table pads and mats Dry cleaning machines Ceiling over boilers, smoke stacks, etc Iron stands

Electric switch boxes Garbage incinerators Gaskets plain and metallic Safes Hoods of cars Tent shields and stove pipe rings Stove mats

Asbestos Cement, flat sheets and wallboards

Air brick connecting piece Backing for dies (in molded glass) Back water Control Pumps Baffle boxes Beam Casings Blackout or bombproof board Brake shoes for elevators Brick type siding Cabinets and panel box work Cable conduits Canopies Ceiling tiles Chimneys (mock) Cladding products Coffins Cold water storage cisterns Columns Column casings Conveyor buckets Cooling tower elements Copings Cyclones and connectors Decking sheets

Draining Boards Electric motor casings Fencing Fire proof layer Fire protection around engines Fish rearing tanks Flower Boxes Flue pipes Fume Cabinets GPO distribution pillars Gutters, domestic and industrial Heat retainers in night storage heaters Hoods over machines or vats Insulation boards Insulators between phases and arc deflectors Interior sheeting Laboratory table tops Linning of fireless cookers Lining for bleaching and other tanks and vats Louvre Blades

Mounting of test instruments and gages Partitions movable and fixed Pillars Plant Containers Poles Posts Practice bombs Prorogation beds in horticulture Purlins Rabbit hutches Rafters River banking Roofing products Scum boards Semi portable motion picture booths Switch boards Tile Batten sheets Ventilation ducts Water Pipes Water meter Chambers Window cills Window Boxes

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