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Asbestos use in Valves
Lunkenheimer Valves Catalog (1960). African blue asbestos packing, mica impregnated for gate valves. Also graphited asbestos packing for gate, globe, and angle valves.
Jenkins Valves Catalog (1956). African blue asbestos packing for iron body gate and nickel iron gate valves. Asbestos packing described as best type for general duty.
Fairbanks Valves Catalog (1976).  Valves containing teflon impregnated asbestos packing.
Fairbanks Valves Company Catalog (1912). Asbestos & Rubber Renewable Vulcabeston Disc Ring.  Vulcanized Asbestos Packed Brass & Iron Cocks.
Fairbanks Valves Catalog (1956) Valves with asbestos packing in the stuffing boxes or asbestos composition discs.
Stockham Valves Catalog (1950). Stockham Valves & Fittings Company sold valves with asbestos packing.
Hajoca Corporation Catalog (1954). Fairbanks Valves with asbestos packing, Jenkins valves with asbestos gasket, Pacific Valves with asbestos gasket, Durabla gaskets, Greene Tweed Palmetto Packing, Raybestos-Manhattan Packing, Johns-Manville.
The Powers Regulator Company (1959). Powers Flowrite Valves contained Powers  Teflon Graphited-Asbestos Packing.
Goodin Company Catalog of Pipes, Valves, Fittings (1975). Asbestos packing and gaskets used with Smith Valves and Stockham Valves.
The Merrill Company Ad (1924). Merco Nordstrom Plug Valves with asbestos packing.
Fisher Control Valve Handbook (1965). Fisher Governor Company. Asbestos valve body gaskets, teflon impregnated asbestos packing.
Lunkenheimer Valves (1971). Valves with teflon impregnated asbestos packing, African blue asbestos packing, graphited asbestos with inconel wire insert, and braided asbestos jacket.
Asbestos was a common base material for valve packing and valve discs. Sometimes it was combined with rubber, teflon, or metal.  Both Chrysotile and Crocidolite (blue) asbestos was used, often depending on the application.
Kennedy Valve Catalog No. 86 (1963). Asbestos packing used in valves.  Copper-asbestos gasket used in fire hydrants. Asbestos composition discs.
WKM Industrial Products, Valves Catalog (1967).  ACF Industries Incorporated.  W-K-M Dynaseal 310 Ball Valve with TFE-asbestos packing.
W-K-M Catalog 84 (1981).  Joy Manufacturing Company.  This 1980s catalog has valves, wellhead equipment, and safety systems.  Asbestos packing used for valves.