Flexible sheet material.

摘要

Non-asbestos flexible sheet material suitable for use in gaskets for the exhaust manifold of an internal combustion engine is made by dewatering on a water-permeable conveyor a layer of aqueous slurry and compressing and drying the dewatered layer, the aqueous slurry employed being one that contains the following ingredients in the following proportions by dry weight:
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