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Code · U.S. Code · Title 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE · CHAPTER 6— WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND STANDARD TIME · SUBCHAPTER VI— STANDARD BARRELS · § 234

§ 234. Standard barrel for fruits or other dry commodity

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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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