A SERMON Delivered by the REV. HENRY W.F. JONES, pastor of a church at Bergen Point, New Jersey, at the Funeral of CAPT. SIMEON A. MELLICK, who died in the service of his country at Fortress Monroe, Va., July 30, 1862, and published at the request of the YMCA of Bergen Point.

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As part of the industry-wide effort to find suitable gasket materials for use in place of currently used asbestos containing gaskets, an experimental investigation was under- taken following an extensive literature search and review of the data from gasket material suppliers. This paper discusses the work to evaluate various asbestos/free gasket materials for steam turbines. The investigation was conducted in two phases. Phase I. Screening tests, consisted of mechanical property evaluations pf non-asbestos gasket materials after high temperature conditioning in mineral oil, water and high pressure steam environments. Based on the results of the Phase I tests, four materials were selected as potential replacements for asbestos containing gaskets. Phase II evaluated these four materials by more extensive testing under conditions closer to actual service conditions.