Lamons Metal Gasket Company — based in Houston, Texas — was a manufacturer of metallic and semi-metallic gaskets, including asbestos-containing spiral-wound gaskets, ring-joint gaskets, and sheet gaskets used throughout petrochemical, industrial, and United States Navy applications. Lamons Metal Gasket products were used at pipe flanges, valve body connections, and equipment interfaces throughout Navy ship engineering spaces — with Lamons asbestos-containing spiral-wound gaskets providing the high-temperature sealing required at steam system connections in Navy propulsion plants. Lamons Metal Gasket appears in the asbestos litigation corpus alongside other major Navy gasket manufacturers including Flexitallic and Spirotallic (spiral-wound gasket manufacturers) and R-Way Gasket — reflecting Lamons’ position within the Navy’s multi-manufacturer gasket supply system.
Documented Asbestos — Lamons Metal Gasket in Naval Litigation
Lamons Gasket — Direct Name Identification
Lamons — Alongside Navy Gasket Manufacturers
Lamons Metal Gasket — Texas Documentation
Lamons Metal Gasket — Named Documentation
Lamons Products in Naval Applications
Spiral-wound metallic gaskets with asbestos filler: Lamons manufactured spiral-wound metallic gaskets with asbestos filler — the standard high-temperature, high-pressure gasket type used at steam system flanges in Navy propulsion plants. The asbestos filler in spiral-wound gaskets was released when gaskets were installed, compressed, and removed — with the soft asbestos winding material directly exposed to the workers handling the gasket assembly.
Sheet gaskets: Lamons manufactured compressed asbestos sheet gaskets for Navy flange and valve applications — cut from sheet stock to specific dimensions for each flange configuration. Sheet gasket cutting released fiber at the cut edge and during scraping of old gasket material from flange faces.
Ring-type joint gaskets: Lamons manufactured ring-type joint (RTJ) metallic gaskets used in high-pressure Navy piping connections — gaskets that often incorporated asbestos-containing materials in their construction to provide the sealing performance required at high-pressure Navy applications.
VA Claims and Legal Options — Lamons Metal Gasket
Navy veterans — particularly Machinist’s Mates and Boiler Technicians who handled Lamons Metal Gasket products during valve and flange maintenance in naval vessel engineering spaces — who subsequently developed mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, asbestosis, or pleural disease, may qualify for:
Key documents:
- DD-214 or service records — documenting naval service in engineering ratings performing valve and gasket maintenance
- Rating records — Machinist’s Mate (MM) or Boiler Technician (BT) with documented engineering space duty
- Diagnosis — mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, asbestosis, or pleural disease
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Exposure documentation derived from publicly filed asbestos litigation records including direct deposition identification of Lamons Gasket Company by name (spelled out “L-A-M-O-N-S”) in Navy asbestos proceedings, Lamons Metal Gasket Co. in formal multi-manufacturer listings alongside Flexitallic, Spirotallic, and R-Way Gasket, Lamons Metal Gasket Co. formal Texas asbestos claim documentation, and Lamons Metal Gasket Company in named gasket manufacturer litigation records. This does not constitute legal or medical advice.