Crane Company Catalog # 53
Copyright 1952
Valves, Fittings, Pipe, Fabricated Piping
Crane Co, 836 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 5, Illinois
Hardcover, 580 pages, about 10.75" x 8"

Includes pictures of the plant and several pages of pictures from inside the plant, showing men working in engineering, development, foundry, forge, fabrication, machining and assembling, and inspection and testing.

Has a comprehensive alphabetical index and also a numerical index so that's it's easy to look up a product either way.

ASBESTOS products include:
Cranite Sheet Packing, which is described of being made out of asbestos.
Composition Discs, No 1 Cranite Discs, No. 4 Cranite Discs, both are described as containing asbestos.
2 pages of Johns-Manville Insulating Materials, including Asbestocel, 85% Magnesia, Asbestos Sheet Millboard, Asbestocel Blocks, 85% Magnesia Blocks, and the Johns Manville finishing cements no. 302 and no. 352 which both contain asbestos.  Also, 85% Magnesia insulating cement is described.

There is a page on Ric-wil Insulated Piping Systems for Steam, Hot Water, Oil, or Refrigerated Process Liquids, which features the following products:

Prefabricated Manholes are described as being asbestos bonded.

Utility-Type Conduit is described as "Made of Armco corrugated ingot iron, galvanized and asbestos-bonded."

Foilclad Overhead Lines... "A wrapping of asbestos felt and a final wrapping of copper or aluminum foil provide added protection."

There are many VALVES featured in this book, and each type of valve usually has a picture and often a one-page description, which (when applicable) describes the service recommendations, construction, materials, stuffing box, repacking, bonnets, interchangeability, etc.  I haven't read all of the descriptions, but some of them reference cranite, such as on the description for 300-pound Bronze Gate Valves, which says, "...equipped with steel studs, brass nuts, and a Cranite gasket..."

CONDITION: Acceptable.  Name to inside front cover. Writing to endpapers. Wear to covers and fraying/tearing to cloth spine edges. Some underlining, circling, a few notes to pages.
Crane Company Catalog # 53
Copyright 1952
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