468 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 2 of 24
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Government report · 1945 · page 9
The Asbestos Textile Industry in Germany (1945)
In the document: …the Owens Corning Fiberglass.Corporation. These processes caSS into use m Germany, prior to the war, thro urn h6 • arrangements between Owens Corning and tV'K™ J-19ensiri: Glasshuttenwerke-Dusseldorf. Textile fibA-rQ^r13iSlleim by the Owens…
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Magazine · Asbestos Magazine · 1945 · November 1945 · page 44
Asbestos Magazine, 1945
In the document: …W. T. MELOY, formerly Director of the Cork Asbestos and Fibrous Glass Division, has accepted a position with the OwensCorning Fiberglas Corporation at Toledo, Ohio. RAY H. COULTRAP, has been appointed Acting Director of the Cork…
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Company document · 1943
Saranac Laboratory Letter to Owens-Illinois on Synthetic Insulation (1943)
…was introduced. The animal studies that followed confirmed in 1948 that Kaylo dust caused asbestosis. Owens-Illinois kept making and selling Kaylo without warnings, and Owens-Corning, which bought the product line in 1958, sold it…
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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1944 · April 1944 (Vol. 12, No. 7) · page 8
The Asbestos Worker, 1944
In the document: …President also heard appeals from certain of the membership protesting the legality of a recent Local election which he took under advisement. He Owens-Corning Buffalo Shop. The same evening at a meeting of Local No…
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Patent · February 16, 1943 · page 1
Process of Treating Copper (US Patent 2,311,083, 1943)
In the document: …to 1 hr., the time of boiling being regulated ac cording to the use to which the tubing is to be put and the degree of increased elasticity de sired. If buss bar copper or similar…
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Patent · January 2, 1940 · page 3
Composition for Molding (US Patent 2,185,354, 1940)
In the document: …application of heat excepting as may be desired to accelerate flow or control constant conditions of operation. It may then be hardened in ovens, by subjecting it to a gradual increase in heat up to 500…
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Patent · February 16, 1943 · page 3
Asbestos Insulating Unit or Yarn (US Patent 2,311,356, 1943)
In the document: …if they were made into a felt ac fibers, which may be spun or twisted in the same cording to the prior art, they would be so com 25 or Opposite directions to the direction in…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1948
W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to the Industrial Hygiene Foundation on Studying Kaylo Dust (1948)
…grinding. The letter came four weeks after Saranac's Arthur Vorwald had told Owens-Illinois that Kaylo produced asbestosis in animals and that this conclusion was "final rather than tentative" (Vorwald's letter of November 16…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo Causing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
What it shows To help Owens-Illinois plan a safety program, the report also drew on Saranac's unpublished asbestos experiments, which it said had been reported "to certain other supporting companies, but not as yet…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 21, 1944
U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking for a Hazard Study of the Berlin Plant Material (1944)
…of November 21, 1944, from U. E. Bowes, director of research at the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory, after a meeting in Pittsburgh with Gardner and A. C…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 12, 1943
U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking Saranac to Test a Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1943)
What it shows This is where the Owens-Illinois and Saranac correspondence about Kaylo begins. From the start, Bowes asked about the people who would install the product as well as those who made it. Gardner…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 21, 1948
W. G. Hazard to Arthur J. Vorwald on the Composition of Kaylo (1948)
What it shows The letter shows Owens-Illinois describing to Saranac the asbestos content of the dust being tested, two months before Vorwald reported that the animals had developed asbestosis (his letter of November 16, 1948…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 10, 1949
W. G. Hazard to J. F. McMahon Sending Kaylo Boxcar Dust for Analysis (1949)
…two-page letter of November 10, 1949, from W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company to J. F. McMahon, managing director of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America. Hazard explained that the Saranac Laboratory…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 16, 1948
Arthur J. Vorwald to U. E. Bowes on Kaylo Producing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
…The same letter with its report is already published from Johns-Manville's chronology as Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo causing asbestosis. In Johns-Manville's index Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 31, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Animal Tests of Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1944)
What it shows Gardner left it to Owens-Illinois to judge whether the samples matched the dust in the air of its plant, since the company was "in a better position than we to know." The…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 12, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on Asbestos in the Synthetic Insulation (1943)
What it shows The letter shows that the asbestos in the material that became Kaylo was known to Owens-Illinois and to Saranac in 1943, before any animal tests, and that Saranac's first reaction was…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 27, 1944
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes Proposing an Inhalation Study of K-Lo Dust (1944)
…Gardner wrote that he hoped the results would be such that Owens-Illinois "might wish to have us publish our findings but it is understood that nothing will be published without your authorization." He also proposed…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · October 30, 1948
Saranac Laboratory, Interim Report on the Biological Activity of Kaylo Dust (1948)
A nine-page interim report of October 30, 1948, to the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, submitted by Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald of the Saranac Laboratory with Philip C. Pratt, Thomas M. Durkan and Anthony B. Delahant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1947
Dust And Its Effects On The Respiratory System
…in South Africa for the past thirty years. The Owens jet dust counter was described in three ways: low in efficiency for particles of 2 to 5 microns, needing careful calibration before routine control use in…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 23, 1943
Leroy U. Gardner to U. E. Bowes on First Tests of the Calcium Silicate Samples (1943)
…to U. E. Bowes of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, written the day the calcium silicate samples arrived. Gardner said he "would suspect that they might be a source of respiratory difficulty" but needed more information…