2019 US Code
Title 15 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 6 - Weights and Measures and Standard Time
Subchapter VI - Standard Barrels
Sec. 234 - Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity
15 U.S.C. § 234 (2019) |
§234. Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity |
The standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities other than cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of stave, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of heads, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch: Provided, That any barrel of a different form having a capacity of seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel. The standard barrel for cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Length of staves, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of head, sixteen and one-fourth inches; distance between heads, twenty-five and one-fourth inches; circumference of bulge, fifty-eight and one-half inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch. |
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 158, §1, 38 Stat. 1186.) |
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Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE CHAPTER 6 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME SUBCHAPTER VI - STANDARD BARRELS Sec. 234 - Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity |
section 234 |
2019 |
January 24, 2020 |
No |
standard |
38 Stat. 1186 |